By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The
U.S. Justice Department is considering charging a former Blackwater Worldwide security
guard with murder over his alleged role in a 2007
massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. The Justice Department is weighing "all available options" against Nicholas Slatten including first-degree murder, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Anthony Asuncion said at a hearing in federal court in Washington. Three other former Blackwater security guards face manslaughter charges in connection
with the Sept. 16, 2007 shootings at Nisur Square in Baghdad, in which 17 civilians were killed and more than a dozen others wounded.
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