From an award-winning correspondent for Democracy Now comes a riveting chronicle of George Bush's favourite mercenary company and their growth into the world's largest private army
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.
An extraordinary expos by one of America's young radical journalists, this is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, where Blackwater executives are hailed as heroes.
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Preface: Making a Killing
CHAPTER ONE THE LITTLE PRINCE
CHAPTER TWO BLACKWATER BEGINS
CHAPTER THREE FALLUJAH BEFORE BLACKWATER
CHAPTER FOUR GUARDING BUSH'S MAN IN BAGHDAD
CHAPTER FIVE SCOTTY GOES TO WAR
CHAPTER SIX THE AMBUSH
CHAPTER SEVEN "WE WILL PACIFY FALLUJAH"
CHAPTER EIGHT NAJAF, IRAQ: 4. 04. 04
CHAPTER NINE "THIS IS FOR THE AMERICANS OF BLACKWATER"
CHAPTER TEN MR. PRINCE GOES TO WASHINGTON
CHAPTER ELEVEN CASPIAN PIPELINE DREAMS
CHAPTER TWELVE BLACKWATER'S MAN IN CHILE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN "THE WHORES OF WAR"
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE CRASH OF BLACKWATER 61
CHAPTER FIFTEEN COFER BLACK: THE GLOVES COME OFF
CHAPTER SIXTEEN DEATH SQUADS, MERCENARIES AND THE "SALVADOR OPTION"
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN JOSEPH SCHMITZ: CHRISTIAN SOLDIER
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN BLACKWATER DOWN: BAGHDAD ON THE BAYOU
CHAPTER NINETEEN "THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
