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This article appeared in the April 30, 2007 edition of The Nation.

April 12, 2007

BLACKWATER: GUNS FOR HIRE

St. Petersburg, Fla.

Thanks for Jeremy Scahill's April 2 cover story, "Shadow Army: How Blackwater Became Part of Bush's War Machine." That may well be the big sticking point with the troop pullout. Blackwater has all those contracts locked in. With our troops out of Iraq what happens to Blackwater USA?

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About Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. more...
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