GARY MAUNEY, lawyer prosecuting Blackwater/Xe: This is not a case about national security at all. These were people who are in a public square in Iraq, much like the main intersection in Charlotte, North Carolina is called Trade and Tron, its the primary intersection in the city where we live. It's the equivalent place to where this occurred. The Blackwater employees were in that square and they opened fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide
JEREMY SCHAHILL, filmmaker, reporter, & Iraq expert: [Paul] Dickinson [second lawyer taking Blackwater to Court while judges have thrown out all other cases] and Mauney have gathered volumes of evidence and interviewed scores of eyewitnesses. Perhaps the greatest piece of evidence comes from one of the men they are suing, Jeremy Ridgeway, a turret gunner on the Raven 23 team that day pled guilty to killing an unarmed civilian. Mauney points to Ridgeway's own sworn statement.
GARY MAUNEY: He said Raven 23 was not supposed to be there, and what they did was not justified by any provocation whatsoever. This is not some lawyer making hyperbolic argument. This is Mr. Ridgeway was who was there, working for Blackwater at the time.
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