U.S. court tosses murder conviction of Blackwater guard Nicholas Slatten in massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians

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@bookworm1398

I’m wondering why this trial was in the US instead of Iraq, wouldn’t they have jurisdiction here? I understand the political reasons for the trial being here, just wondering what the legal rationale was.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39159-2004Jun13.html

The US declared their soldiers and mercenaries exempt from Iraqi law as soon as they conquered the place. Accountability is for other people.