2 ex-Blackwater staff charged with Afghan murders

Two former Blackwater employees have been arrested and charged with the murder of two Afghans in Kabul last year and could face the death penalty, the US Justice Department has said.
Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, were arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder following the shooting deaths of the two Afghan men.
They were also charged with attempted murder, after a third man was wounded in the Kabul incident on May 5, when Cannon and Drotleff were working as contractors for the US military in Afghanistan.