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The public anger has never faded
Sitting swathed in bandages at Baghdad's Yarmukh Hospital, a day after he had been shot four times in the back by Blackwater guards, Hassan Jabar Salman, shook his head "This is not the first time they have killed innocent people in our country, and nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done. You'll see."
I was in Nisour Square on Baghdad's 'Bloody Sunday' when Mr Salman and around 40 others were shot. The eruption of gunfire was sudden and ferocious, round after round mowing down terrified men women and children, slamming into cars as they collided and overturned with drivers frantically trying to escape. Some vehicles were set alight by exploding petrol tanks. A mother and her infant child died in one of them, trapped in the flames.
Even by the standards of the savage violence of Iraq at the time, the massacre at Mansour with families out in a shopping district making up most of the victims, brought a sense of profound shock.