The US will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater World-wide security contractors involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, US Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday. Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later.
Blackwater security contractors were guarding US diplomats when the guards opened fire in a crowded Baghdad intersection. Seventeen people were killed, including women and children, in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraqi. Biden expressed his "personal regret' for the shooting and said the Obama administration was disappointed by the dismissal. ``A dismissal is not an acquittal,' he said.
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