When four Blackwater USA security guards were ambushed and massacred in Fallujah in 2004, graphic images showed the world exactly what happened: four men killed, their bodies burned and dragged ...

It was the death of four Blackwater contractors that sparked the first battle of Fallujah, in part to apprehend ... remains a major player in the PMC world and the successes and failures of ...

The November 1 team went into Fallujah and was massacred. The Bravo 2 team memos, in emotional, coarse and damning language, placed the blame squarely on Blackwater's Baghdad site manager, Tom Powell.

Four days after the Blackwater guards were killed, a major military offensive, known as the Battle of Fallujah, began. The combat lasted almost a month in Fallujah. At least 36 U.S. military ...

brother of slain Blackwater guard Stephen "Scott" Helvenston. Images from the scene flashed around the world and triggered a massive U.S. military attack on Fallujah that featured street-by-street ...

Blackwater is cast in both as an incompetent, penny-pinching outfit that sent an undermanned and poorly equipped detail through Fallujah, a known insurgent stronghold 40 miles west of Baghdad.

Survivors of the contractors contend Blackwater failed to prepare the men for their mission into Fallujah in March 2004 and didn't provide them with maps and other appropriate equipment. Helvenston, ...

The four Americans killed and mutilated in Fallujah Wednesday were civilians who worked for Blackwater USA, a private company with a Pentagon contract to provide security services in Iraq.

The private security firm Blackwater USA brushed aside warnings from another security firm and focused on cost, not safety, before it sent its personnel to escort trucks to Fallujah in 2004 ...

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where a convoy of Blackwater mercenaries opened fire on the cars around them and killed 17 civilians. There were two battles of Fallujah in 2004. The first was a U.S. invasion in the spring that ...

Images from the scene flashed around the world, triggering a massive U.S. military attack on Fallujah. The settlement disturbs Jason Helvenston of Orlando, Fla., whose brother was slain guard ...