On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad’s Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. More

Blackwater is in the news again — the CIA hired Blackwater as part of a secret program to find and assassinate top Al Qaeda operatives in 2004. The story has also been covered by the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, AP, NPR, and other local newspapers. More

Watch a video about the impact of Blackwater and the people who worked with Jeremy Scahill behind-the-scenes that helped bring this unknown story to the forefront of the news. More