Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Helps you meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has hired to operate in international war zones and on American oil. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781846686528
• ISBN-10: 1846686520
• Artikelnr.: 23541988

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He reported from Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing and spent years covering the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's government and the rise of a neoliberal regime backed by the United States. He has also reported from Nigeria, where he and colleague Amy Goodman exposed the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the massacre of protesting villagers in the Niger Delta. Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation. Scahill has won numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and numerous Project Censored Awards. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a (US) Golden Reel for "Best National Radio News Story" of 2002. Blackwater 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