Former Blackwater USA private security guards serving lengthy prison terms for the shooting deaths of 14 Iraqis in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007 tried to convince an appeals court Tuesday to overturn their convictions, arguing they were improperly prosecuted under a law authored by then-Sen. Jeff Sessions. The law, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, subjected certain U.S. government contractors working overseas in...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 17, 2017 19:08 UTC