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The Federal District court cases involving the five Blackwater contractors will start in earnest Monday, when the indictments are unsealed. Before we get to that point - and the complex legal issues which are involved - the following article giving their bios is worth reading.

Bio sketches of 5 indicted Blackwater guards
By The Associated Press
Saturday, December 6, 2008
(12-06) 10:59 PST , (AP) --

The Justice Department is expected to unseal indictments Monday against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad. A look at the contractors and summaries of their military service records. ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...w103358S29.DTL

In politically-charged cases of this kind, one should start with looking at the defendants as human beings; and then make judgments based on the evidence which is introduced in court.