TY  - SOUND
AU  - Scahill,Jeremy
AU  - Weiner,Tom
ED  - OverDrive, Inc.
TI  - Blackwater: the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army 
SN  - 9781568583945
AV  - DS79.76 .S322 2007ab
U1  - 355.3/540973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nation Books
KW  - Blackwater USA
KW  - Mercenary troops
KW  - United States
KW  - Fallujah, Battle of, Fallūjah, Iraq, 2004
KW  - Audiobooks
N1  - Downloadable audio file; Title from: Title details screen; Unabridged; Duration: 14:32:49; Read by Tom Weiner
N2  - A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of military tasks to private mercenary companies. Accountable neither to the citizenry nor to standard military legal codes, these largely unregulated corporate armies are being entrusted with ever-greater responsibilities on behalf of the nation. Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing private army on the planet. Founded by fundamentalist Christian megamillionaire Erik Prince, the scion of a conservative dynasty that bankrolls extreme-right-wing causes, this company of soldiers is now being sent "to the front lines of a global battle, waged largely on Muslim lands, that an evangelical President whom Prince helped put in the White House has boldly defined as a 'crusade'." Ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to Washington, D.C., where they are hailed as heroes, this is the dark story of Blackwater's rise to power
UR  - http://ebooks.nypl.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=EF0369E4-F33E-43F8-9B6F-F3176B1BE442
ER  -