WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – Two former Blackwater security guards were arrested Thursday on murder charges stemming from a shooting in Afghanistan last May that left two Afghans dead and a third wounded, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The arrest came days after a federal district judge dismissed a separate criminal case against four other former Blackwater security guards involved in a 2007 shooting in Nisour Square in Baghdad that left at least 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
Separately, some of the victims of the Nisour Square shooting have reached a settlement with Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, in several civil lawsuits.
In Iraq, the victims of the shooting said they had accepted the settlement because they worried that it was their last chance for compensation. Abdel Amir Rahim Jihan, who was shot three times in the legs, said he would received $30,000.
“Our rights were not redressed,” said Jihan, 45. “We didn’t achieve victory. But the legal procedures take a long time, and we were given the choice to settle or not. I did.”
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