Video gratis Jeremy ScahillBlackwater and the Coalition of the Billing 1
Video de Part 1 of 3 Jeremy Scahill, a Nation Magazine contributor, Democracy Now correspondent, and author of Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, speaks in San Diego on May 1 2007 In Part 1, Jeremy Scahill tells the story behind the iconic images of the four Blackwater civilian security contractors who were killed and mutilated, their charred bodies hung from a bridge in Fallujah, an incident that further inflamed violence throughout Iraq Scahill explains the inherent flaws in deploying private contract security forces into a war zone and details the tragic sequence of events that led the four American men from distinguished military careers to their doom as civilian contractors Scahill also describes how founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince developed Blackwater into one of the world's largest private security companies by providing outsourced services in the wake of cataclysmic events such the Columbine High School shootings, the USS Cole bombing, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq Additionally, Scahill explores Prince's extensive personal and political links to powerful figures within the Religious Right
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