This book uses a Kafkaesque lens to study the public and legal features of the coverage of the Nisour Square shootings of 2007. It illustrates how most American communities were much more interested in regulating private security firms than they were in having legal discussions of potential war crimes.

Acknowledgments
Chapter One - Introduction: Kafka, and the Chaotic Rhetorical Cultures of Mercenaries and
Private Military Companies
Chapter Two - Operation Iraq Freedom and the Rise of Blackwater, Inc.
Chapter Three - Creative Destruction, Iraqi Sentiments, and Early Prosecutorial Narratives of
"What Happened" at Nisour Square, 2007-2008
Chapter Four - The Demise of Blackwater and the Tales of Primate Military Corporate
"Accountability," 2009-2013
Chapter Five - The 2014 Criminal Trials of Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, and the Other
Blackwater Defendants
Chapter Six - Remembrances of Blackwater and the Advent of the "New Humanitarian"
Private Contractors
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About the Author

Marouf Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah and author of Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016).