It traces Blackwater's beginnings in 1996, with visionary executives opening a private military training camp "to fulfill the anticipated demand for government outsourcing" to its secret deployment in Afghanistan following 9/11 to the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah and a fierce gun battle in Muqtada al-Sadr's stronghold of Najaf.
T h i s is the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, yet most people have never heard of Biackwater. Biackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror," with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty thousand troops at the ready. Its contacts run from deep inside the military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House.
government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Meet Biackwater U S A, the powerful private army that the U.S. T h e y were highly trained private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina.
But these men were neither American military nor civilians. troops would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. IT W A S T H E MOMENT T H E W A R TURNED: O n March 31, 2 0 0 4, four A m e r i c a n s w e r e a m b u s h e d and b u r n e d near their j e e p s by a n a n g r y mob in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah.
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