Calling Blackwater to Account

By Jeremy Scahill

October 11, 2007

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In this October 11 Democracy Now interview, Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Reform and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in US district court by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in a September 16 shooting in Baghdad.

About Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. more...
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