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The groundbreaking bestselling expose of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in Americas name.
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdads Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled Baghdads 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 Guardian
Author: Jeremy Scahill
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781568583945
Language: English
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