Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary ArmyOn 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. |
Contents
1 THE FACE OF BLACKWATER | 1 |
INTRODUCTION 3 BAGHDADS BLOODY SUNDAY | 3 |
CHAPTER ONE 49 MAKING A KILLING | 49 |
CHAPTER TWO 65 THE LITTLE PRINCE | 65 |
CHAPTER THREE 89 BLACKWATER BEGINS | 89 |
CHAPTER FOUR 113 FALLUJAH BEFORE BLACKWATER
| 113 |
CHAPTER FIVE 125 GUARDING BUSHS MAN IN BAGHDAD | 125 |
CHAPTER SIX 145 SCOTTY GOES TO WAR
| 145 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 245 BLACKWATERS MAN IN CHILE
| 245 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 275 THE WHORES OF WAR
| 275 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 305 THE CRASH OF BLACKWATER 61
| 305 |
THE GLOVES COME OFF
| 329 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 349 DEATH SQUADS MERCENARIES AND THE SALVADOR OPTION
| 349 |
CHRISTIAN SOLDIER
| 365 |
BAGHDAD ON THE BAYOU
| 389 |
CHAPTER TWENTY 409 THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
| 409 |
CHAPTER SEVEN 155 THE AMBUSH
| 155 |
CHAPTER EIGHT 169 WE WILL PACIFY FALLUJAH
| 169 |
40404 | 181 |
CHAPTER TEN 197 THIS IS FOR THE AMERICANS OF BLACKWATER
| 197 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN 209 MR PRINCE GOES TO WASHINGTON | 209 |
CHAPTER TWELVE 231 CASPIAN PIPELINE DREAMS
| 231 |
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