SEATTLE (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former security contractor for Blackwater USA will not be indicted in the 2006 killing of an Iraqi guard.
A congressional report alleges Seattle resident Andrew Moonen was wandering drunk around Baghdad’s Green Zone when he encountered and fatally shot Raheem Saadoun, a 32-year-old guard for Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd-al-Mahdi. Moonen reported the shooting at another security contractor’s post, saying he’d been in a gunfight with Iraqis.
U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan say prosecutors decided there was too little evidence to sustain a criminal conviction in the killing.
Durkan wrote in a letter to Moonen’s attorney that the decision was not made lightly. He added: “There is no question that the shooting death of Mr. Saadoun by your client was a tragic event.”
