Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful mercenary Army Review
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful mercenary Army Overview
It was the Mogadishu moment of the Iraq war. March 31, 2004, four American mercenaries were ambushed in the Sunni hotbed of Fallujah, their jeeps set ablaze with the men inside. An angry mob dragged their charred corpses through the streets, hanging them from a bridge over the Euphrates River. "Fallujah is the graveyard of the Americans!" the mob declared in front of the cameras. The ensuing US slaughter in Fallujah would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts US occupation forces to this day.
Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive and powerful mercenary firm and the fastest growing private army on the planet, with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater was founded by an extreme right-wing fundamentalist Christian mega-millionaire ex-Navy Seal named Erik Prince, the scion of a wealthy conservative family that bankrolls far-right-wing causes.
This is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington, D.C. where Blackwater executives are hailed as new heroes in the war on terror.
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