Scahill,J. Blackwater. 2007
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful
Mercenary Army. New York: Nation Books, 2007. 452 pages.
Blackwater was founded in 1997 by Erik Prince, a Christian
fundamentalist, with part of the $1.35 billion from the sale of his
father's auto-parts business. Eventually Blackwater contracted with the
U.S. State Department to guard diplomats in Iraq. They recruited a bunch
of trigger-happy ex-SEALs and ex-Special Forces cowboys, and earned more
than $600 million in revenue in 2008. A third of that was from the U.S.
contract, and the rest from an aviation business and a military training
operation in Moyock, North Carolina.
On September 16, 2007, Blackwater was involved in a shooting incident
that left 17 Iraqis dead. This book went to press earlier that year, at a
time when Blackwater still enjoyed a little bit of favorable publicity for
its work in Iraq. As of 2009, the Justice Department has charged five of
Blackwater's men for their alleged role in the incident, and the government
of Iraq has denied Blackwater a license to work in Iraq. Blackwater USA
changed its name to Blackwater Worldwide, and now it's been changed again
to Xe, in an effort to rid themselves of the Blackwater stigma. The parent
company is called EP Investments LLC. While this book does an excellent
job of covering Blackwater's rise to stardom, just two years later the
company finds itself in very different circumstances.
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