article_snippet.sent: A years-long legal fight over a deadly mass shooting of civilians in an Iraq war zone reaches A years-long legal fight over a deadly mass shooting of civilians in an Iraq war zone reckoning point, when four former Blackwater security guards are sentenced for the rampage.
article_snippet.sent: All four were convicted in October for the men involvement in the killings that caused an international uproar in Nisoor Square, a crowded traffic circle in downtown Baghdad.
article_snippet.sent: The legal fight over the killings that caused an international uproar in Nisoor Square, a crowded traffic circle in downtown Baghdad has spanned years.
article_snippet.sent: The sentencing is unlikely to bring an end to the legal wrangling, which began even before private security guards in central Baghdad were first charged in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: A judge later dismissed the case before trial, but a federal appeals court revived the case and private security guards in central Baghdad were indicted again in October 2013.