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

Title: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]
Author: Jeremy Scahill
ISBN: 9781568583945
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Updated
Number of Pages: 560
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Publisher Description: The "crackling exposé" (New York Times Book Review) of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name

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.