Nine years of ill will built up toward American contractors working in Iraq is finally (and unsurprisingly) coming to head now that the U.S. military is officially withdrawn from the country.
Blackwater (now known as Academi) got kicked out of Iraq specifically for shooting 17 civilians in 2007, but they shot a lot more than that, including a dog raised by a group of New York Times reporters, according to a cache of documents obtained by Gawker.
The notorious private contractor is still in the market for government contracts
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