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BREAKING-ALL Charges Against Blackwater Dropped

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Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 at 1:08:18pm PST

AP via SFgate is reporting that all charges against against five Blackwater security guards charged in a Baghdad shooting have been dropped.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/...

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was not allowed to see. He said the government's explanations have been contradictory, unbelievable and not credible.

Blackwater contractors were hired to guard State Department diplomats in Iraq. Prosecutors say the guards fired on unarmed civilians in a busy intersection in 2007, killing innocent people.

That's pretty much the story as of right now.
Will update as available.