Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Jeremy Scahill

550 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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