Blackwater says its guards reacted lawfully to an attack on a convoy. firm Blackwater “deliberately killed” 17 Iraqis in a shooting in Baghdad, and plans legal steps against them. * October 2007 - Iraq says security guards from the U.S. troops into Iraq to combat the insurgency. * January 2007 - Bush announces a new war strategy including a “surge” of U.S. 30, 2006 - Saddam Hussein hanged by masked executioners after Iraqi court sentences him to death for killings of 148 men and boys in northern Iraq in 1982. * October 2004 - Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi starts waging bloody attacks designed to turn majority Shi’ite Muslims against minority Sunnis in a civil war. businessman Nicholas Berg and videotape his killing. * MaIn Fallujah four Blackwater private security contractors are killed and some of the burnt bodies hung from a bridge. faces international condemnation after photographs emerge showing abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib jail. * Spring 2004 - Insurgency intensifies in Falluja and elsewhere in mainly Sunni Muslim Anbar province and violence by followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr in the south.
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