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Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings

By Pete Yost
Published June 11, 2014 10:40pm ET
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Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings
Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten enters a taxi cab as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, after the start of his first-degree murder trial. Slatten and three other Blackwater Worldwide guards are on trial for the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) | Cliff Owen

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards went on trial Wednesday in the killings of 14 Iraqis and the wounding of at least 18 others.

Over the next few days, a jury of 12 residents from the District of Columbia will be chosen from a pool of 111 people to decide the guards’ fate. The trial is expected to last months.

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