...[In] March 31st, 2004, four employees of the private U.S. security firm Blackwater USA are ambushed as they drive through the center of Fallujah. In images broadcast around the world, their burnt corpses are dragged through the streets...[T]he families [of the victims] say that they got the runaround from Blackwater...[Evidence] raises a lot of serious questions about the extent of Blackwater's involvement [in extraordinary renditions]...in November of 2004, Blackwater was operating an aircraft taking a number of US troops [in Afghanistan]...And the plane ends up crashing...active-duty US soldiers were killed...And...the families...are [also] suing Blackwater...Blackwater has argued in its legal briefings that it can't be sued in civilian courts...There are 100,000 private contractors in Iraq...[T]he Colombians that Blackwater had hired and brought over to Iraq staged a strike of sorts at the Blackwater compound and demanded to be paid what everyone else was being paid...Blackwater took active command of an active-duty US Marine in a battle that Muqtada al-Sadr’s forces recall as a massacre on April 4...