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Right on the heels of a Brookings Institution report detailing the problems private military companies create for counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has released a study ...

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In just the week since Jeremy Scahill’s appearance on THE JOURNAL, there have been many developments in the Blackwater story: In front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Secretary ...

RALEIGH, N.C. AP – The families of four Blackwater private security guards whose killing in Fallujah marked a turning point of the Iraq war are ending their lawsuit against the company’s corporate ...

Democrats in Congress released a scathing report Thursday on the 2004 massacre of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, charging that the company rushed unprepared into a sloppy mission, skimped on ...

On March 31, 2004, Iraqi citizens cheered in the streets, celebrating in front of cameras. Behind them, flames shot up from two bullet-riddled cars. And the charred bodies of four American men, ...

In many ways, Katy Helvenston is like any mother who has lost a son in Iraq. She talks to others who have survived their kids. She wonders whether she could have done more to keep him out of harm’s ...

Jerry Zovko was muscle for hire, and he plied his trade, private security, in a place that for Americans is perhaps the most dangerous in the world. Zovko joined the Army in 1992, serving in the 82nd ...

A decade ago, mercenaries were sad, ridiculous characters, guarding Liberian diamond mines or driving drug lords around Miami. According to reporter Jeremy Scahill, these same guys have the ear of the ...

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