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Podcast: Battleline Podcast
Episode: The Story Behind the Blackwater Nisour Square Incident of 2007
Description: On September 16, 2007, seventeen Iraqi civilians were killed in an incident involving contractors working for Blackwater. Years later, in 2020, the men involved in Nisour Square were pardoned by President Trump. Eric Parker was with the Tactical Support Team when this took place and gives us the inside story of what really went down. Eric's background includes being a Army special operations veteran with a deployment to Mogadishu, Somalia, contracting with Blackwater in Afghanistan, and then working in Diplomatic Security Service. He is now the President of Red Variable Concepts - http://www.red-variable.com/ and the Founder of Select-International Training...