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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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Znet Article Scahill: Blackwater's Private CIA

Znet Article, June, 09 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company's shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. But by early 2008, B...

Znet Article Cusack: Why the War in Iraq Is Stranger Than Fiction

Znet Article, May, 24 2008 John Cusack
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John Cusack's new film War, Inc., takes on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is dep...

Znet Article Scahill: The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence

Znet Article, February, 24 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law...

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