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100 1 _aScahill, Jeremy.
245 1 0 _aBlackwater :
_bthe rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army /
_cJeremy Scahill.
260 _aLondon :
_bSerpent's Tail,
_c2008.
300 _ax, 550 p. ;
_c20 cm.
500 _aNZ Review 'Meticulously researched and fascinating... Scahill does a fine job' Sunday Times 'Scahill deserves commendation' New Statesman 'Essential reading' Irish Mall on Sunday 'Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting' Naomi Klein, author No Logo 'Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme' - Michael Moore, Academy Award Winning Director
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [469]-533) and index.
520 _aMeet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. 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, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, far from damaging the company, have led to an unprecedented period of expansion.This revised and updated edition includes Scahill's continued investigative work into one of the outrages of our time: the privatisation of war.
610 2 0 _aBlackwater USA.
650 0 _aMercenary troops
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFallujah, Battle of, Fallujah, Iraq, 2004.
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