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TONIGHT: Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater Author
by Nation Books
Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Award winning investigative journalist speaks tonight on mercenaries in Iraq
Nation Books is pleased to announce award-winning author
JEREMY SCAHILL
On tour in Cleveland to launch the fully updated edition of his bestseller
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH, AT 5:00 PM
Open National Conference to Stop the War in Iraq and Bring the Troops Home Now
Crowne Plaza Hotel
777 St. Clair Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 736-4704
About the Book
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.
This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.
As veteran journalist Bill Moyers explains, "Scahill is a one man truth squad."
About the Author
Jeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the national radio and television show Democracy Now!.
Scahill has reported extensively from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Nigeria. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is his first book.
Media Requests:
Contact Michele Jacob at michele.jacob@perseusbooks.com or 212-340-8161
www.blackwaterbook.com
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