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Blackwater's CEO on a "bad situation"

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Asked today whether a drunken Blackwater employee who shot and killed a guard for an Iraqi vice president might have been guilty of murder, Blackwater CEO Erik Prince said: “It was a guy who put himself in a bad situation.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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