blackwaterComing across the wires.

“WASHINGTON - A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five BlackwaterWorldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Justice Department prosecutors improperly built their case on sworn statements that had been given under a promise of immunity. Urbina said the government’s explanations were “contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility.”

The decision throws out a case steeped in international politics. The September 2007 shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. The Iraqi government wanted the guards to face trial in Iraq and officials there said they would closely watch how the U.S. judicial system handled the case.”

This was a political case from the get-go brought on by liberal prosecutors in the DOJ. Eric Holder had wanted this to be the first of many such witch hunts on the Bush administration and it failed miserably.

Good call!