Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, far from damaging the company, have led to an unprecedented period of expansion.

This revised and updated edition includes Scahill's continued investigative work into one of the outrages of our time: the privatisation of war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847654786
• Artikelnr.: 38357026

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has covered the war in Iraq; the downfall of Milosevic's government in Serbia; the suppression of oil protests in the Niger Delta; and the use of mercenaries in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power. Scahill has won numerous journalism awards, included a prestigious Lannan Foundation fellowship for Blackwater, which is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Author's Note
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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

Rezensionen

Meticulously researched and fascinating ... Scahill does a fine job Sunday Times