Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]

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 PrinceAwardwinning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricaneravaged 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 oneman truth squad Bill Moyers[An] utterly gripping and explosive story Naomi Klein, The Guardian