US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Saturday launched a furious attack on outgoing President Donald Trump’s pardoning of four Blackwater security contractors convicted for the 2007 killing of at least 17 Iraqis. Fourteen of the dead were civilians, including two children. The men, pardoned by the president on 22 December, had been convicted of opening fire in Baghdad’s crowded Nisour Square on … Continue reading Ilhan Omar slams Trump’s Blackwater pardons as ‘disgrace to our country’ Middle East Eye