The family of a slain Iraqi security guard says in a federal lawsuit that a former Blackwater contractor fatally shot the man while wandering drunk in Baghdad.
The survivors accuse the company of covering up wrongdoing while reneging on promises of compensation in a lawsuit filed Thursday in San Diego federal court. The company has two training facilities there.
Raheem Khalaf Sa'adoon's wife and two children said Blackwater, the North Carolina-based company now known as Xe, destroyed documents to hide evidence of a pattern of recklessness.
The lawsuit names both Xe and the former Blackwater guard, Andrew Moonen. It says Moonen shot Sa'adoon without provocation on Christmas Eve of 2006 after getting drunk at a party and then getting lost.
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