Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] by Scahill, Jeremy

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] by Scahill, Jeremy

Softcover
ISBN 9781568583945 / 156858394X
Publisher: Bold Type Books , 2008

Condition: Very Good +. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

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  Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]
  
  The groundbreaking bestselling expose of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name.

• Helps you meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has hired to operate in international war zones and on American oil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops.

• On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces, subcontractors working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide, led by Erik Prince.

• Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to reveal the frightening new face of the U.S. military machine, and what happens when you outsource war.

  
  "A crackling expose" -- New York Times Book Review
  
  "[Scahill] is a one-man truth squad" -- Bill Moyers
  
  "[An] utterly gripping and explosive story" -- Naomi Klein, The Guardia