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RALEIGH, N.C. — 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.
Raheem Khalaf Sa’adoon’s wife said Blackwater, the North Carolina-based company now known as Xe, destroyed documents to hide evidence of a pattern of recklessness. The lawsuit filed Thursday in the southern district of California also says the company promised to compensate the widow, Wijdan Mohsin Saed, but stopped after an initial payment of $20,000.
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.
