Blackwater : the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army

Summary: "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 working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the “War on Terror.” In his gripping bestseller, 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 expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine."

Record details

ISBN: 9781560259794 :
ISBN: 1560259795 :
Physical Description: print
xxvii, 452 p. ; 24cm.
Publisher: New York : Nation Books, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-438) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: Making a killing -- The little prince -- Blackwater begins -- Fallujah before Blackwater -- Guarding Bushαs 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 -- Blackwaterαs 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".