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Blackwater : L'élévation du monde ? s la plupart d'armée puissante de mercennaire
Dimanche 19 août 2007
Par Jeremy Scahill Blackwater est un entreprise privé anonyme qui effectue le travail sale pour l'Amérique dans diverses guerres, couvert et ceux que nous savons tous trop bien. Il a commencé il y a seulement 10 ans en tant qu'une sorte de paintball gai et gamme de tir dans le grand marais morne de la Caroline du Nord, mais de nos jours a-t-il environ 20.000 mercennaires sur ses livres (? putains de guerre ?), pour ne pas mentionner un groupe entier d'avion quasi-militaire, une base militaire, un bon nombr'et un bon nombre de pistolets et de raccordements avec avec précision les personnes concernées. Il a été introduit dans l'existence par Erik Prince, un fanatique catholique quelque peu du centre droit qui grêle d'une dynastie singulièrement unlikable et dégoûtant-riche du Michigan. Le prince a l'oreille de la Maison Blanche et est-ce que sa société a-t-elle été récompensée avec l'abondance extraordinairement de lucratif aucun-a offert des contrats pour le travail de sécurité dedans, par exemple, l'Irak ? où Blackwater ? s le plus en avant chargent était de s'occuper du L idiot et fanatique Paul Bremer III pendant sa limite comme administrateur des USA juste après la guerre. Malheureusement, vous pourriez se sentir, ils ont plutôt bien à cet égard fait leur travail, et Bremer a survécu sa période d'activité. Ailleurs, cependant, Blackwater était clairement catastrophique ; il était quatre de ses hommes que, pendant une sortie singulièrement peu judicieuse unquelled dedans Fallujah, trouvé eux-mêmes attiré dans un guet-apens, machine-gunned et entaillé au peu de la façon la plus bestiale par les gens du pays enflamés. Leurs corps démembrés ont été lancés au-dessus des cables électriques sur un pont dans la ville ? et leur meurtre a apporté des représailles furieuses et mortelles des militaires des USA, aidés de nouveau par plus d'employés de Blackwater. Jeremy Scahill, un journaliste de réputation, n'est pas tout à fait sûr s'il blâme Blackwater d'être incompétent et négligent en envoyant ces hommes à ce qui était mort presque certaine, ou pour jouer un jeu bien plus foncé et (dans les cahoots avec le régime de Bush) machiner efficacement une atrocité à laquelle l'Amérique n'a eu aucune option mais pour répondre de la façon la plus rigoureuse. C'est symptomatique d'un problème récurrent dans tout le livre autrement méticuleusement recherché et fascinant de ceci : nous sommes dans aucun doute quant derrière à où l'auteur vient, politiquement, et sa disposition de peacenik tord parfois son jugement. Given the chance, Scahill would blame Bush and Blackwater for every conceivable crime, all the time (for both gross incompetence and the most astonishing Machiavellian cunning, for example), when a less partial observer might suspect such qualities to be mutually exclusive. Also, and I write as someone who thought the war and occupation of Iraq woefully misguided and criminal, Scahill seems to have much more sympathy for the vicious and medieval Islamists of Fallujah who wish to murder every American on sight than he does for his own people, who want to kill Iraqis only when they themselves are under attack. Typical of the tenor of this book is the author?s pious opprobrium when a Blackwater soldier, alone under fire on three sides from 1,200 heavily armed and enraged Iraqis, dares issue the unfortunate exclamation ?nigger!?. This undoubted contravention of etiquette merits a couple of pages of concentrated hand-wringing. Appalling though it might seem to Scahill, Blackwater?s mercenary soldiers do not always behave in the manner of Polly Toynbee. They instead comprise macho retired US grunts, former Pinochet guardsmen, pensioned-off members of the Israeli Defence Force, white South African soldiers, cheap-as-chips Colombians and so on. The armed mercenary business is of a distinctly rightish political hue, I think it?s fair to say ? and Scahill spends far too long belabouring the point. Some Blackwater executive doesn?t have much time for homosexuals or abortionists ? no, you?re kidding? There are bigger issues here and Scahill, good journalist that he is, does eventually get on to them. First and foremost is Blackwater?s apparently cavalier attitude towards its employees and its utter lack of accountability. Scahill also does a fine job tying the firm, financially and politically, to the current Bush administration ? despite Prince?s considered view that George W is a lily-livered liberal, all too soft on queers and commies. The contracts roll in, usually without competition, and Blackwater cleans up, bending the rules of engagement by occasionally using what is euphemistically described as ?unapproved ammunition?, its euphemistically named contractors swanning around Baghdad and Fallujah armed to the teeth, wearing wraparound mirror shades, driving expensive SUVs. Clearly, though, they love their work for the excitement, comparatively high wages and other sundry spin-offs: ?The chicks dig it,? one cheerful Neanderthal mercenary proclaims of his high-risk, highly paid work. Scahill also discovers Blackwater ?contractors? setting up bases in former Russian secret-service headquarters in Georgia and Azerbaijan, their guns pointed in two directions: towards Russia, towards Iran. Ready for the next conflagration. There?s some evidence in the book that the firm was also involved in the ?renditioning? of prisoners, transporting suspects for interrogation to countries with an imperfect grasp of what is meant by human rights. Blackwater operates in a deliberately hazy area, a private company beholden to the state for its work, yet free from those legal and moral responsibilities imposed upon the state, nationally and internationally. Scahill reports that the same mirror shades, big guns and SUVs were seen tearing around New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, the contractors charged with the task of keeping order and ?confronting criminals?. If so, it is a scary development. You might hope that when the current US administration bites the dust, Blackwater might do so, too. But that would be a bit naive. The relationship between mercenary and government is now far too convenient and lucrative to be abandoned. 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