Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Name: Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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ISBN: 9781568583945

ISBN-10: 156858394X

ISBN-13: 9781568583945

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jeremy Scahill

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* Winner of the George Polk Book Award * Alternet Best Book of the Year * Barnes & Noble one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007 * Amazon one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007 Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive and powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet, with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top U.S. officials in Iraq and yet the world knows almost nothing about the firm's quasi-military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and inside the United States. This is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.37" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Author's Note


The Face of Blackwater


Introduction: Baghdad's Bloody Sunday



Making a Killing



The Little Prince



Blackwater Begins



Fallujah Before Blackwater



Guarding Bush's Man in Baghdad



Scotty Goes to War



The Ambush



"We Will Pacify Fallujah"



Najaf, Iraq: 4.04.04



"This is for the Americans of Blackwater"



Mr. Prince Goes to Washington



Caspian Pipeline Dreams



Blackwater's Man in Chile



"The Whores of War"



The Crash of Blackwater 61



Cofer Black: The Gloves Come Off



Death Squads, Mercenaries, and the "Salvador Option"



Joseph Schmitz: Christian Soldier



Blackwater Down: Baghdad on the Bayou



"The Knights of the Round Table"


Epilogue: Blackwater Beyond Bush


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index