WASHINGTON (AP) — Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal manslaughter and gun charges resulting from a 2007 shooting in a crowded Baghdad square that killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured dozens of others.
The five — including Donald Ball of West Valley City, Utah — stood silently in a line behind their lawyers as their not guilty plea on all charges was entered in front of U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina.
They are charged with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a machine gun to commit a crime of violence. The machine gun charge, typically used in drug cases, carries a 30-year minimum prison sentence.
W. Colo. wildfire
About 400 firefighters and five helicopters are battling an eight-square-mile wildfire, near the Utah border.
NATO kills senior al-Qaida
NATO force in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida's second-highest leader in the country in an airstrike.
Syria dead executed
Most of the 108 victims of a chilling massacre in Syria last week were shot at close range, including children.
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