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[Read by Tom Weiner]
A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of military tasks to private mercenary companies. Accountable neither to the citizenry nor to standard military legal codes, these largely unregulated corporate armies are being entrusted with ever-greater duties with respect to the country.
Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing private army on earth. Founded by fundamentalist Christian megamillionaire Erik Prince, the scion of the conservative dynasty that bankrolls extreme-right-wing causes, the corporation of soldiers is now being sent ''to leading lines of a global battle, waged largely on Muslim lands, an evangelical President whom Prince helped put in the White House has boldly defined as a 'crusade'.''
Which range from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to Washington, D.C., where they are hailed as heroes, this is the dark story of Blackwater's rise to power.
