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

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by Jeremy Scahill


  Islamic Army in Iraq

  Israel

  Israeli mercenaries

  Issa, Darrell

  Issawi, Taher al-

  Izurieta, Ricardo

  Izzi, Saad al-

  Jackson, Gary

  on aviation services

  on Blackwater’s clandestine operations

  on Blackwater’s expansion

  on Cofer Black

  on foreign commandos

  on helicopter shoot-down

  on New Orleans operations

  on U.S. border agents

  Jacobson, Jim

  Jadacki, Matt

  Jamail, Dahr

  Jamaili, Khaled

  Janjaweed militia (Darfur, Sudan)

  Jennings, Peter

  Johnson, T. V.

  Johnson Controls

  Johnston County, NC

  Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), smart bomb

  Jones, Karen

  Jones, Walter, Jr.

  Jordan

  Journalists

  Al Jazeera

  embedded, unembedded

  Justice Department, U.S.

  K Street Project

  Kabul Station

  Kaifesh, Larry

  Kamal, Hussein

  Karim, Ahmed

  Karimov, Islam

  Karzai, Hamid

  Kazakhstan

  See also Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project

  KBR (Kellogg, Brown, and Root)

  and Blackwater subcontract

  and Fallujah ambush

  and human trafficking allegations

  New Orleans hurricane contract

  See also Brown and Root (later KBR)

  Keating, Karl

  Kelly, Kathy

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, Patrick

  Kenya, U.S. embassy bombing

  Kerry, John

  Khalaf, Ali Salman

  Khalif, Raheem

  Khartoum, Sudan

  Kidnappings, disappearances

  of foreign contractors

  Kimmitt, Mark

  and Al Jazeera

  and Fallujah

  on Najaf battle

  King, Martin Luther Jr.

  King, Robert

  King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (Jordan)

  “Kingdoms in Conflict” essay (Colson)

  Kinzer, Stephen

  Kirby, David

  Kissinger, Henry

  Klebold, Dylan

  Klein, Naomi

  Knapp, Eric

  Knocke, Russ

  Koevoet

  Koopman, Doug

  Koppel, Ted

  Kornbluh, Peter

  Korrey, Edward

  Kosciuszko, Thaddeus

  Kosovo war (1999)

  Kostov, Lyubomir

  Kristol, William

  Kroll Inc.

  Kromm, Chris

  Krongard, Alvin B. “Buzzy,”

  Krongard, Howard “Cookie,”

  Krueger, Alan

  Krugman, Paul

  Kucinich, Dennis

  on impunity for private contractors

  Kufa, Iraq

  Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

  Kuwait

  Lacquement, David B.

  Lafayette, Gilbert de Motier

  Lafayette Park, Washington .C.

  LaHaye, Tim

  Laitin, David

  Laos

  Lapin, Daniel

  Larry King Live TV program

  Lasseter, Tom

  Latin America

  Law enforcement

  domestic operations conducted by mercenaries

  Lawsuits

  Blackwater 61 plane crash

  Fallujah ambush

  for Nisour Square shooting victims

  for Watahba Square killing of Iraqi civilians

  See also Immunity from prosecution and litigation

  “Lawyers for Terror” (Waller) in New York Post

  Le Mas

  Leahy, Patrick

  Leary, William M.

  Left Behind novels (LaHaye)

  Lekota, Mosiuoa

  Lepaterique, Honduras, secret training camp

  Letelier, Orlando

  Lethin, Clarke

  LeTourneau, Mary Kay

  Levens, William

  Levin, Carl

  LeVine, Mark

  Libby. Lewis “Scooter,”

  Libi, Ibn al-Shaykh al-

  Licensed to Kill (Pelton)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Linker, Damon

  Lobbying

  Lobbying scandal. See Abramoff lobbying scandal

  Lockheed Martin

  LOGCAP contract

  Lumir Corporation

  Lynch, Stephen

  Maass, Peter

  Madfai, Muslih al-

  Madrick, Jeff

  Mafraji, Sami Farhood al-

  Magazine Publishers of America

  Mahajan, Rahul

  Mahdi Army

  Mahmood, Jamal Shaqir

  Maliki, Nouri Kamel al-

  Maloney, Carolyn

  Man vs. Beast TV program

  Mann, Simon

  Manríquez, Roberto

  Mansoor, Peter

  Mansour, Ahmed

  Margelov, Mikhail

  Marine Corps, U.S.

  and Fallujah

  at Najaf battle

  Marsh & McLennan

  Martinez, Waldo

  Masciangelo, Bill

  Massoud, Ahmed Shah

  Mathews, Bill

  Mattis, James

  Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

  Mayer, Jane

  McBride, Kevin

  McCain, John

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McClellan, Dale

  McClellan, Scott

  McCormack, Brian

  McHenry, Patrick

  McLennand, Francis

  McMahon, Michael

  See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

  McQuown, Justin

  McVeigh, Timothy

  Media

  coverage of Fallujah

  coverage of New Orleans

  and Nisour Square shooting

  and PKK weapon exchange

  Meese, Edwin

  Meet the Press TV program

  Mehamdy, Abdelaziz Faisal Hamid

  Méndez, Angel

  Menische, John

  Mercenaries, mercenary industry

  expanding roles

  massive deployment into Iraq

  militia (see Private army)

  motivated by religious zealotry

  oversight of, by IPOA

  profiting from New Orleans operations

  prospects under future U.S. administrations

  rebranded

  recognized as part of Total Force

  as silent partners

  as term

  in U.S. history

  See also Blackwater Security Consulting; Security contractors

  Messner, J. J.

  Mexico border security

  Michigan Family Forum (MFF)

  Michigan Prayer Network

  Miers, Harriet

  Miles, Marc

  Military, U.S.

  anti-Blackwater positions expressed

  Blackwater described as extension

  convoy intervenes in standoff (May 2007)

  downsizing, privatizing effects (see Outsourcing; Privatization of military and government services)

  investigates Nisour Square shooting

  soldiers killed in Blackwater plane crash

  unable to oversee private contractors

  Military Professional Resources Inc.

  Military-industrial complex

  Militias

  anti-immigrant in U.S.

  Janjaweed, Darfur, Sudan

  mercenaries as

  See also Iraqi militias

  Miller, Geoffrey

  Miller, Harley

  See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

&nb
sp; Miller, T. Christian

  Minuteman Project Civil Defense Corps

  Mission accomplished statement

  Modern Marine Expo

  Moffitt, Ronni Karpen

  Mogadishu, Somalia

  Moonen, Andrew

  Moore, Demi

  Moral media

  Morton, Joe

  Mosques

  Mosul, Iraq

  Moussaoui, Zacarias

  MoveOn.org

  Moyock compound

  MPRI

  MSNBC

  Mueller, Robert

  Muhammad, Ahmed

  Mukhabarat agents

  Multinational corporations

  Murphy, Christopher

  Mushtaq, Laith

  Myers, Richard

  Naem, Assam Hussein Il,

  Nairn, Allan

  Najaf battle (April 2004)

  Nance, Malcolm

  Nantongo, Mirembe

  Nantz, Eric

  NASCAR racer sponsored by Blackwater

  Nash, Steve

  National Border Patrol Council

  National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

  National Defense Industrial Association

  National Guard

  National Intelligence Committee of Iraq

  National Public Radio (NPR)

  National Republican Congressional Committee

  National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA)

  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

  NATO operations

  Natural disasters, domestic deployment

  Naval Special Operations Unit in Azerbaijan [??]

  Navy force protection training contract

  Navy SEALs

  NBC

  Neff, Joseph

  Negroponte, John

  background

  and Salvador option

  Neidrich, Chris

  Neoconservative movement

  and Paul Bremer in Iraq

  supports independent army concept

  Nepalese Gurkhas

  Neskowin

  Neuhaus, Richard

  Nevaer, Louis E. V.

  New Orleans hurricane operations

  New Paradigm

  “New Risks in International Business” paper (Bremer)

  Nicaragua

  Nickles, Don

  Nigeria

  Night Draws Near (Shadid)

  9/11 Commission

  9/11 conspiracy theories

  See also September 11, 2001, attacks

  Nisour Square shooting

  descriptions

  Iraq’s attempts to prosecute Blackwater

  and victims’ families

  Nixon, Richard

  Non-violence International

  Norcross, Melissa

  Noriega, Manuel

  North, Oliver

  Northern Alliance of Massoud

  Northrop Grumman

  Novak, Michael

  NPR. See National Public Radio (NPR)

  NTOA. See National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA)

  NTSB. See National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

  Oath, constitutional

  Obama, Barack

  Obert, Jason

  See also Helicopter shoot-down (April 2005)

  Obert, Jessica

  Occupation of Iraq by U.S.

  under Bremer

  and Fallujah

  funds unaccounted for

  reconstruction projects

  resistance to (see Anti-U.S. resistance in Iraq)

  O’Connor, John Cardinal

  Oil industry

  in Azerbaijan

  BTC pipeline

  Caspian region project

  of China in Sudan

  in Kazakhstan

  and mercenary army concept

  multinational corporations

  privatization in Iraq

  Olympics 2004 in Greece

  On Killing (Grossman)

  Operation Troop Salute

  Operation Vigilant Resolve

  See also Fallujah siege (April 4, 2004)

  Order

  Order of Malta Federal Association

  O’Reilly, Bill

  The O’Reilly Factor TV program

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

  Osorio, Esteban

  Outsourcing

  and Blackwater’s private army concept

  under Cheney

  of 80,500 Navy FTEs

  of essential services

  of soldiers flown in Afghanistan

  of training of U.S. border agents

  See also Privatization of military and government services

  Pace, John

  Pace, Peter

  Pachachi, Adnan

  Paglen, Trevor

  Pakistan

  Palestine

  Panama

  Paratroopers as media event

  Parenti, Christian

  “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report (U.S. State Dept.)

  Patton Boggs

  Pauken, Kevin

  Pelosi, Nancy

  Pelton, Robert Young

  Pence, Mike

  Penn, Mark

  Pentagon

  and Blackwater 61 crash

  and Halliburton in Iraq

  and IG Joseph Schmitz

  outsourcing questioned

  and Perle scandal

  privatization policy

  recognizes mercenaries as part of Total Force

  September 11, 2001, attacks on

  Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

  Pere, Richard

  Perle, Richard

  Perry, Richard

 

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