Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

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by Jeremy Scahill


  Contra

  and Negroponte

  De-Baathification policy

  DeBeers

  Defense Base Act (DBA)

  Defense Department, U.S.

  contract fraud allegations

  and contractors

  and investigation of Fallujah ambush

  and KBR

  and Perle scandal

  and rendition flights

  shot-down helicopter contractor

  See also Total Force concept

  Defense Policy Board

  Degn, Matthew

  DeLay, Tom

  Delta Force

  Delta Oil

  DeMint, Jim

  Democratic Party

  Dempsey, Martin

  Department of Homeland Security Authorization Bill

  DeVos, Betsy Prince

  DeVos, Richard

  Dhahir, Falah Nawwar

  Dhari, Harth al-

  Di Rita, Lawrence

  Diplomatic security contracts. See Security contractors

  Dirty wars

  Disaster profiteering

  and Blackwater’s independent army concept

  See also Natural disasters, domestic deployment

  Divine, Mark

  Dobson, James

  Dodd, Christopher

  “Doing Business in Iraq” presentation

  Domestic law enforcement. See Law enforcement

  Doolittle, John

  Dreyfuss, Robert

  Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S.

  Drug war contracts

  Druyun, Darleen

  Dubai conference

  Duke, Anne

  Dulaimi, Ibrahim Abdullah al-

  Dulaimi, Mu’taz Fahd al-

  Dulaimi, Samir Ali al-

  Dutch Reform Church

  DynCorp

  Easley, Mike

  Ecuador

  Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  El Salvador

  Elections

  Ellsberg, Daniel

  eLottery

  Embassy, U.S., in Iraq

  “The End of Democracy” symposium in First Things

  England, Gordon

  English, Noel See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

  Equatorial Guinea

  Ereli, Adam

  Erinys

  Escuela de Caballeria (School of Calvary), Colombia

  ESS. See Eurest Support Services (ESS)

  Essawi, Ahmed al-

  Eurest Support Services (ESS)

  Blackwater contract

  subcontract under Halliburton’s LOGCAP

  Evangelical Christians. See Christian conservative movement

  “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” (ECT document)

  Evans, Don

  Evergreen International Aviation

  Executive Outcomes (EO)

  ExxonMobil

  FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

  Face/Off movie

  Fadhil, Zina

  Fainaru, Steve

  Fallujah, Iraq

  antioccupation resistance following massacre (see also Anti-U.S. resistance in Iraq)

  assassination of Ahmed Yassin

  conditions prior to ambush (March 2004)

  as Gulf War (1991) massacre site

  history

  Marine takeover

  See also Fallujah ambush (March 2004); Hay Nazzal Street massacre (April 2003)

  Fallujah ambush (March 2004)

  Blackwater’s responses, versions

  Bush administration response

  contracts with ESS, KBR disputed

  description of

  families bring wrongful death lawsuit

  funerals and memorial

  media reports of

  as possible setup

  questions asked

  Fallujah siege (April 4, 2004)

  collective punishment concept

  humanitarian crisis of

  Operation Vigilant Resolve

  Fallujah sieges, post-April 2004,

  Family Life Center International

  Family Research Council (FRC)

  Farhan, Mohammed

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  and Cofer Black’s rendition of Libi

  and Nisour Square shooting

  and Shaw scandal

  trains at Moyock facility

  Federal Protective Service

  Federal Tort Claims Act exception

  Feith, Douglas

  FEMA

  Feres Doctrine

  Fielding, Fred

  Fijian troops

  Fil, Joseph

  First Marine Expeditionary Force

  First Things journal and symposium

  Fisk, Robert

  Flatley, Seamus

  Flores, Santos

  Flowers, Garry

  Fluor

  Focus on the Family

  Foley, Tom

  Force protection

  Foreign Affairs

  Foreign mercenaries

  Bulgarian flight crew

  Chilean commandos

  Colombians

  Honduran commandos

  recruitment of

  Romanians

  training of

  Forero, Juan Carlos

  Fort Bragg

  Foundation for Defense of Democracies

  Fox News

  Francis, David J.

  Free Iraq forces

  Freiheit Foundation

  Friedman, Thomas

  Frist, Bill

  Frowick, Robert

  Fualaau

  Gallagher, Frank

  Gallant, Karl

  Gamanche, Robert

  See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

  GAO. See Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  Garner, Jay

  Gates, Robert

  General Dynamics

  General Services Administration (GSA) contracts

  Genocide

  Georgia, Republic of

  See also Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project

  Germany

  Gettleman, Jeffrey

  Ghilan, Swadi

  Ghost Wars (Coll)

  G.I. Jane movie

  Gingrich, Newt

  Global Crossing

  Global Guards

  Global Risk Strategies

  Global stabilization professionals

  Goldstone, Richard

  Gonzales, Alberto

  González, Gustavo

  Goss, Porter

  Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  Graham, Lindsey

  Grand jury investigations

  Grassley, Charles E.

  Gray. Boyden

  Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co.

  Green Berets

  Green Zone (Baghdad) Blackwater security contract

  murder of Iraqi bodyguard

  Greenberg, Jeffrey

  Greenberg Traurig

  Greystone Limited

  Grogan, Travis

  See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

  Grossman, David

  Grupo Tactico

  GSA contracts. See General Services Administration (GSA) contracts

  Guantánamo Bay facility

  Guevara, Gonzalo

  Gulf Region Relief fundraiser

  Gulf War (1991)

  Haggai Institute

  Haig, Alexander

  Haiti

  Halbousi, Saad

  Halliburton

  and ESS

  and KBR

  New Orleans hurricane contract

  and war profiteering allegations

  The Halliburton Agenda (Briody)

  Hamadi, Saadi

  Hammer, Loren “Butch,”

  Hammes, Thomas X.

  Handover of Iraq sovereignty. See Sovereignty handover

  Hanner, Darren

  Harkin, Tom

  Harris, Eric

  Hart Security


  Harvey, Francis

  Hashem, Sabeh al-

  Hassnawi, Khamis

  Hastert, Dennis

  Hattab, Mohammed Nouri

  Hay Nazzal Street massacre (April 2003)

  Hearings. See Congressional hearings/investigations

  Heatly, Charles

  Hejlik, Dennis

  Helicopter shoot-down (April 2005)

  description

  responses to

  Helicopters and airplanes

  AC-130 Spectre gunships

  AH-1W Cobras

  Apache attack helicopters

  Bell helicopters used for snipers

  Black Hawks, Black Hawks in Somalia

  Boeing MD-530s

  CASA planes

  Cessna Caravan planes

  CH-47 helicopters

  Gulfstream V jet

  Hughes MD500s

  Little Birds

  Metro planes

  Mi-8 helicopter

  SA-330 Puma helicopter

  STOL aircraft

  Helms, Jesse

  Helvenston, Jason

  Helvenston, Scott

  background

  events leading up to ambush

  in Fallujah ambush

  funeral

  See also Fallujah ambush (March 2004)

  Helvenston-Wettengel, Katy

  on Blackwater memorial

  brings lawsuit

  quest to understand

  Hemingway, Mark

  Henderson, David

  Hersman, Deborah

  Hess

  Hight, John

  Hillah, Al

  Hillsdale College

  Hodge, Nathan

  Holder, Frank

  Holland, Michigan

  Homeland Security Department, U.S.

  Blackwater’s New Orleans no-bid contract

  Bremer’s influence

  Homeland Security Research

  Honduras, Honduran commandos

  Hooper, Paul

  Hope College

  Horst, Karl

  Horton, Scott

  Hotel Rwanda movie

  Howell, Andrew

  HRW. See Human Rights Watch (HRW)

  Huffstickler, Marty

  Human Rights Watch (HRW)

  Azerbaijan’s poor record

  on Hay Nazzal Street massacre

  on local governance of Fallujah

  Human trafficking

  Humanitarian abuses

  in Azerbaijan

  crisis in siege of Fallujah

  in El Salvador

  Humanitarian abuses (continued)

  in Honduras

  of Iraqi militias

  killings, disappearances, poverty

  during Pinochet’s regime

  repression in Uzbekistan

  in Sierra Leone

  Humanitarianism

  as consideration in IPOA code of conduct

  and disaster profiteering

  and Greystone image rebranding

  Hundley, Curtis

  Hundley, Steve

  Hunter, Duncan

  Hurricane Katrina

  Hurricane Rita

  Hush money paid to Iraqi victims’ families

  Hussein, Ahmad

  Hussein, Saddam

  Ibraheem, Oday Ismail

  Ibrahim, Faleh

  ID Systems

  IEDs (improvised explosive devices)

  Image of Blackwater operatives

  See also Rebranding campaigns

  Immigration

  Immunity from prosecution and litigation

  claimed by Blackwater 61 plane crash lawsuit

  claimed by Blackwater at civilian, military levels

  claimed by Blackwater in Fallujah ambush lawsuit

  claimed by Blackwater in Nisour Square lawsuit

  claimed by Blackwater in Watahba Square lawsuit

  and Feres Doctrine

  of private U.S. contractors in Iraq (Order 17)

  State Dept. agreements used in questioning guards

  and Total Force concept

  “Inspecting Sex Slavery through . . . Moral Relativism” paper (Schmitz)

  Inspectors General for Iraq, U.S.

  Instinctive Shooting International (ISI)

  Insurance for risk of terrorism

  Intelligence officers, U.S.

  International contractors, operatives. See Foreign mercenaries

  International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)

  International recruitment of mercenaries. See Foreign mercenaries

  International security contractors, operatives. See Foreign mercenaries

  IPOA. See International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)

  Iran

  and Caspian oil project

  Iran-Contra

  Iraq

  under Bremer

  civil war

  elections in

  government investigates Blackwater shootings

  government investigates Nisour Square shooting

  government’s lack of sovereignty

  human trafficking allegations

  military disbanded

  monetary (privatized) costs of war

  occupation of (see Occupation of Iraq by U.S.)

  Sadr’s ascent

  schoolteachers, doctors, nurses fired

  Iraq National Museum

  Iraqi Civil Defense Corps

  Iraqi Governing Council

  Iraqi military

  disbanded by Bremer

  joins anti-U.S. resistance

  in Operation Vigilant Resolve

  training of new army

  Iraqi militias

  and civil war

  of Sadr

  and Salvador option

  Iraqi police

  Irish Rangers

  Islam, Muslims

 

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