Judge slaps State Department over Blackwater

Published April 9, 2014 8:16pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is calling for an investigation of the State Department over years of delays in prosecuting Blackwater security guards in the shootings of dozens of Iraqi citizens in 2007.

Four Blackwater guards are scheduled to go on trial June 11 in Washington for the deaths of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others.

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