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Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians stir angry response

by Ellen KnickmeyerEric Tucker
| December 24, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four U.S. government contractors convicted in shootings that killed that child and more than a dozen other Iraqi civilians.

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