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Blackwater Down

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. Posted September 22, 2005.


The frightening -- and possibly illegal -- presence of heavily armed private forces in New Orleans only demonstrates what everyone already feared: the utter breakdown of the government.
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Jeremy Scahill is a correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now! He has spent extensive time reporting from Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing.

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