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Blackwater and Private Contractors in Iraq

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Five security guards with Blackwater Worldwide were indicted last week for allegedly massacring more than a dozen Iraqi civilians. We discuss the conduct of private contractors in Iraq with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Fainaru, author of “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq.”

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Steve Fainaru, foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and author of "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq"

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