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Blackwater loves Shari’a law

These people are real winners:

To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American soldiers who died on one of its planes in Afghanistan, a sister company of the private military firm Blackwater has asked a federal court to decide the case using the Islamic law known as Shari’a.

While I’m sure there are valid concerns about whether the case should be tried because of the legal issues about suing agents of the government, I don’t think this is a strategy they really want to pursue. It would reverberate all over Iraq where many people could argue that Iraqi law then applies to everything Blackwater does.