Del Quentin Wilber, The Washington Post: "A federal judge today refused to toss out charges against five US security contractors accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad square in 2007. The ruling by US District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina came in an early legal challenge brought by defense attorneys representing the guards, who worked at the time for Blackwater Worldwide. The guards' attorneys had argued the government didn't have jurisdiction to bring the charges. The guards were indicted in December on charges of voluntary manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and using a firearm in a crime of violence in the controversial shooting in bustling Nisoor Square in September 2007."
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