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

Author: Jeremy Scahill Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Politics, History, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781568583945 9781560259794 156858394X 1560259795

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 '€œBaghdad'€™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 '€œWar on Terror.'€ In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine. Similar books: Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill The Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton Drift by Rachel Maddow Chain of Command by Seymour M. Hersh The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran A Fist in the Hornet's Nest by Richard Engel The Strongest Tribe by Bing West Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward Generation Kill by Evan Wright The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk Ghost Wars by Steve Coll Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman The Black Banners by Ali H. Soufan The Assassins' Gate by George Packer The Blood Telegram by Gary J. Bass Taliban by Ahmed Rashid The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson