Blackwater guards found guilty in Iraq shootings
A US jury returned guilty verdicts for all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad.
The jury in Washington found Nicholas Slatten guilty of first-degree murder, and the three other three guards -- Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard -- guilty of at least three counts of voluntary manslaughter.
The four men had been charged with a combined 33 counts in the shootings and the jury was able to reach a verdict on all of them, with the exception of three charges against Heard. The prosecution agreed to drop those charges.
