Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill
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Blackwater
The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful mercenary Army

Author: Jeremy Scahill

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 14 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

It was the Mogadishu moment of the Iraq war. March 31, 2004, four American mercenaries are ambushed in the Sunni hotbed of Fallujah, their jeeps set ablaze with the men inside. An angry mob drags their charred corpses through the streets, hanging them from a bridge over the Euphrates River. Fallujah is the graveyard of the Americans! the mob declares in front of the cameras. The ensuing US slaughter in Fallujah would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts US occupation forces to this day. Meet Blackwater USA, the worlds most secretive and powerful mercenary firm and the fastest growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater was founded by an extreme rightwing fundamentalist Christian megamillionaire exNavy Seal named Erik Prince, the scion of a wealthy conservative family that bankrolls farrightwing causes.

About Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill is one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international bestselling books Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and Democracy Now! and was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award. Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film Dirty Wars, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joshua on July 11, 2007

Okay, first some literary criticism. And I hate to do this, because I saw Jeremy Scahill speak a few months ago and I genuinely liked him. He's brilliant, he obviously knows what's going on in the world, he's a first-class investigative journalist, a crusader for the truth, and I sincerely applaud h......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on August 06, 2009

Addendum 8/6/09: Erik Prince accused of murder. [URL not allowed] I had no idea the depth of antagonism toward the Clinton election evinced by such stalwarts as Scalia, Colson, Dobson, et al who, in public statements, suggested that any ruler, elected or otherwise, who was not......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on August 29, 2021

-El periodismo de investigación todavía está, algunas veces, en buena forma.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Blackwater (publicación original: Blackwater. The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, 2007) es un acercamiento a la empresa del mismo nombre, el mayor símbolo (que no......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on December 12, 2018

What is the downfall of empires associated with? With the building of ever more massive mercenary armies Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. The basis for the tremendous success of the now repeatedly renamed security firm Blackwat......more

Goodreads review by Trish on April 10, 2016

One can draw a straight line from Tim Weiner’s extensive report on the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, and this book by Jeremy Scahill on the outsourcing of American military, security, and investigative duties. Scahill centers his work around the event that transfixed the world and brought awareness of Black......more

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