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Why did the Blackwater case take so long?

Four contractors for the private security company Blackwater have been given lengthy sentences at a court in Washington for their roles in a 2007 shooting that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead. But why has it taken seven years for the case to come to a conclusion? Matt Apuzzo is a New York Times journalist who has been following the investigation since it began.

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