Blackwater
by Jeremy Scahill, Gemma Andújar · first published 2007
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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, awardwinning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us fro
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The book on Blackwater written by the journalist Jeremy Scahill has a lot of interesting background on Prado. Also, "American Desperado" (great book, also by Evan Wright) talks about some of Prado's interesting involvement…
on “The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit” ↗…That was one of the things that the DoD did that seems to replicate a capability available elsewhere in the USG and almost entirely for the purpose of escaping oversight. BTW, Jeremy Scahill (author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars) reported that HIS laptop was hacked. When you combine this with the surveillance of AP reporters and it does seem that certain parts of the USG seem to feel that journalists are worthy…
on “CBS confirms reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer breached” ↗…Christian zealot. But you're probably thinking of previous work by one of the authors of this article, Jeremy Scahill, who has written many other articles and a couple of books about Erik Prince and Blackwater.
on “Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force” ↗