Four Blackwater security guards convicted in 2014 of carrying out a massacre of Iraqi civilians, sparking an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war, have been pardoned by US President Donald Trump.
Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Nicholas Slatten were all jailed for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisour Square that marked one of the lowest points of America's war in Iraq. They were convicted after a lengthy trial that saw some 30 witnesses travel from Iraq to testify against them.
In their 2014 trial a jury in Federal District Court found that the deaths of 17 Iraqis in the shooting, which began when a convoy of the guards suddenly began firing in a crowded intersection, was not a battlefield tragedy, but the result of a criminal act.
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