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Το Blackwater είναι ακόμα υπεύθυνο, θανάσιμο, επάνω από το νόμο και εκτός ελέγχου
Πέμπτη, 19η Ιουνίου 2008
Το Antonia Juhasz πρόφθασε Scahill στο τηλέφωνο η ημέρα που η νέα έκδοση απελευθερώθηκε. Ένας συνεργάτης Αλλαγή πετρελαίου διεθνής και συντάκτης Η ημερήσια διάταξη των Μπους, Juhasz είναι επίσης ο συντάκτης του προσεχούς βιβλίου Η τυραννία του πετρελαίου: Η παγκόσμια ισχυρότερη βιομηχανία, και τι πρέπει να κάνουμε για να την σταματήσουμε. Το Juhasz και Scahill συζήτησαν, μεταξύ άλλων θεμάτων, την ιστορία πίσω Blackwater, του Κογκρέσου απραξία, ριζική ιδιωτικοποίηση, Barack Obama, εταιρικό εναντίον ανεξάρτητα μέσα, αντίσταση ΓΠ στην ηλικία των ιδιωτικών mercenaries, που παίρνουν πραγματικών για τις εταιρίες πρόκλησης και τη δύναμη της διαφωνίας. Antonia Juhasz: Ι ο πρώτος πρέπει να αναγνωρίσει ότι, μέχρι τώρα, δεν είχα διαβάσει Blackwater και αυτός, ως κάποιο που διάβαζε το σας Έθνος άρθρα, αρκετά λανθασμένα είχα υποθέσει ότι ήξερα τι έπρεπε να πείτε για αυτήν την επιχείρηση. Δεν θα μπορούσα να έχω κάνει λάθος. Αυτό είναι ένα φανταστικό, πληροφοριακό, οξυδερκές και αυστηρά σημαντικό βιβλίο. Jeremy Scahill: Σας ευχαριστούμε. Άρχισα αυτό το βιβλίο τυχαία. Έγραφα για Blackwater όταν μου [Έθνος ] οι συντάκτες Katrina Heuvel και ο κάλαμος Betsy με κάθισε και εν λόγω, «έχουμε δημοσιεύσει δέκα άρθρα για μια επιχείρηση και κάνετε τη μεγάλη εργασία, αλλά είτε πρέπει να γράψετε ένα βιβλίο είτε να πάρετε έναν νέο κτυπάτε.» Μόλις άρχισα την επιχείρηση στα πλαίσια ενός βιβλίου, συνειδητοποίησα ότι, από πολλές απόψεις, ήταν μια μεταφορά για τόσο μεγάλο μέρος που συνέβαινε με τη χώρα, ιδιαίτερα με την ημερήσια διάταξη ιδιωτικοποίησης της πολεμικής μηχανής. So, while there are some parts of the book that are based on reporting I did for the Nation, the vast majority is new investigative research. AJ: What drew you to Blackwater? JS: I was in Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing that Bill Clinton prosecuted … Halliburton and other war contractors, like Dyncorp, were very much present on the ground during the Yugoslavian civil war, primarily in Bosnia. And so that was really my first direct interaction with this sort of parallel army of contractors. Then the [U.S. attack on] Iraqis in Falluja was very important to me as a reporter, because I had been there many times and had friends inside of Falluja. I remember watching on March 31, 2004, when those four Blackwater contractors were ambushed and killed inside Falluja, and my immediate response after seeing the way it was covered in the press — that they were “civilians” [or] “civilian contractors” — was “Oh my god, Bush is going to destroy that city.” I began my reporting on Blackwater [in April 2004] based on a very simple question: “How were the deaths of these not-active-duty U.S. soldiers — not civilians, but four corporate personnel working for Blackwater, a mercenary company — how do their deaths warrant the destruction of an entire city?” I realized that it was a story that spoke volumes to what we were seeing happening in this country with the export of this incredibly violent foreign policy, the connections of political allies of the president to the war industry… [So I began] an in-depth investigation of Blackwater: Who runs the company? What are their connections to the Bush administration and the national security apparatus of the U.S., etc.? AJ: What did you hope that writing the book would accomplish — and has it? JS: When I was writing, I wasn’t thinking of it in terms of what I hoped to accomplish. What I was looking at was: Here is this company that was on no one’s map, basically, before March 31, 2004, and even in the weeks and months after that, was really just a blip on the media radar screen. I was hoping to expose this company as something much bigger than just its boots on the ground in Iraq, or its role in Falluja, Najaf and elsewhere — but to explain, in a readable way, that this is a very dangerous trend that has been put on a radical fast track almost overnight. Once we started to realize just how deeply embedded in the occupation of Iraq Blackwater has been, and its connection to the Bush administration, then the point of the book (became) raising hell in Congress and in the public — saying to people, “We have to wake up and do something about this!” See More:USA News WarfareHave Your Say: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control Please note, only selected comments will be published. Or discuss this report in our new forums One Response to “Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control”
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[...] Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control Thursday, June 19th, 2008 On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour Square massacre [...]