Blackwater or Murder, Inc.?

By Countdown

August 6, 2009

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Jeremy Scahill of The Nation talks to Countdown's Keith Olbermann about his explosive story on Blackwater's murder and arms smuggling. Scahill, the leading expert on the military contractor, explains the background on Blackwater's arms smuggling, and notes that this new evidence "begs for a really serious investigation." Between the illegal weapons, the use of explosive ammunition not used by the military, and most chilling of all, the idea that Blackwater operatives killed civilians as practice, the picture of the military contractor gets darker by the day. Yet, as Scahill notes, "Who deployed Blackwater? Who continues to pay Blackwater?"

Read more of Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater coverage for The Nation here.

--Sarah Jaffe

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