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Znet Article Scahill: Washington's War in Yemen Backfires

Znet Article, February, 25 2012 Jeremy Scahill
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For the United States, the question that lingers over Yemen after Ali Abdullah Saleh is: Did US counterterrorism policy strengthen the very threat it sought to eliminate?

Znet Article Scahill: Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?

Znet Article, January, 10 2010 Jeremy Scahill
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German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with ...

Znet Article Scahill: Stunning Statistics About the War That Everyone Should Know

Znet Article, December, 20 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war p...

Znet Article Scahill: The Secret US War In Pakistan

Znet Article, December, 06 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinat...

Znet Article Scahill: Blackwater: CIA assassins?

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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The New York Times is reporting that in 2004 the CIA hired Blackwater "as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda." According to the Times, "it is unclear whether the CIA had planned to use the contractors to ...

Znet Article Scahill: CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program

Znet Article, August, 20 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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We begin today's show with an explosive new report about the private military contractor Blackwater. The New York Times is reporting the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operat...

Znet Article Scahill: Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Natio...

Znet Article Scahill: It's Wasn't Only Cheney

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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While the current focus is on Dick Cheney's role concealing these nefarious missions, the U.S. has long had a bipartisan assassination policy.

Znet Article Scahill: Torture Continues at Guantánamo Bay

Znet Article, May, 16 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging p...

Znet Article Scahill: A Closer Look at Obama's 'New' Position on Torture Prosecutions

Znet Article, April, 26 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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The big news today is that the Senate Armed Services Committee has released a declassified report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.

Znet Article Scahill: Gen. Petraeus Implements Military Surge Against Four Somali Pirates in a Lifeboat

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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In today's episode of "Pirates," the most powerful Navy in the world remains in a stand-off with four pirates in a small boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean. So devastatingly threatening to US national security are these pirates that the Grand ...

Znet Article Scahill: Obama's Cuba Moves Do Little to End the Economic War on Havana

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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While a step in the right direction, easing travel restrictions to Cuba doesn't end the economic blockade of Cuba. That change is long overdue.

Znet Article Scahill: President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?

Znet Article, March, 18 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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For those already outraged at the AIG bonus scandal, here is a fact that should add more fuel to the fire: The Obama administration has paid the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater nearly $70 million to operate in Iraq and, according to Th...

Znet Article Scahill: Mercenary King Erik Prince Resigns as Blackwater CEO

Znet Article, March, 03 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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In a desperate re-branding effort, the notorious firm formerly known as Blackwater bids goodbye to its founder.

Znet Article Scahill: All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast; Why Obama's Iraq Speech Deserves a Second Look

Znet Article, February, 28 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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Some anti-war analysts find hope in President Barack Obama's address at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina on Friday, in which he appeared to spell out a clear date for withdrawal from Iraq.

Znet Article Scahill: Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 07 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my co...

Znet Article Scahill: This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House

Znet Article, November, 21 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realiti...

Znet Article Scahill: Blackwater Busted? Six Guards May Be Charged in Iraq Massacre

Znet Article, November, 15 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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The US Justice Department appears to be on the verge of handing down the first indictments against armed private forces for crimes committed in Iraq.

Audio Scahill: Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama

Audio, November, 08 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for Democracy Now! and The Nation, as well as an expert on privatized military companies as a result of his reporting.

Znet Article Scahill: Blackwater's Not Going Anywhere

Znet Article, August, 01 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush Administration's favorite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little Bird helicopters and go back to the Great Dismal Swamp...

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