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

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by Jeremy Scahill


  Anti-U.S. resistance in Iraq

  and Bremer’s policies

  fueled by attacks on Fallujah

  private militias of leaders, movements

  Anti-War Profiteering amendment

  Antoon, John

  APLPs. See Armor-piercing, limited-penetration rounds (APLPs)

  Arkin, William

  Armitage, Richard

  Armored vehicles

  as issue in Fallujah ambush

  requirement deleted from contracts

  ArmorGroup

  Armor-piercing, limited-penetration rounds (APLPs)

  Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.

  Asadi, Riyadh al-

  Ashcroft, John

  Ashdown, Keith

  Aspe, Oscar

  Assad, Shay

  Assassinations

  of Ahmed Shah Massoud

  of Ahmed Yassin

  of Baathists

  of Marcelo Barrios

  Atban, Himoud Saed

  Australian SAS

  Aviation, clandestine

  Aviation Worldwide Services (AWS)

  Azerbaijan

  See also Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project

  Baba Mountain range, Afghanistan

  Baghdad airport-Green Zone route ambush

  Baghdad Bob

  Baghdad on the Bayou

  Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday

  See also Nisour Square shooting

  Bairaqdar, Abdul Sattar Ghafour

  Baker, Al

  Baker, James A.

  Balkans conflict

  Ballard, Tina

  Bamford, James

  Barrios, Marcelo

  Base Realignment and Closure Act

  Batalona, Wes

  See also Fallujah ambush (March 2004)

  Battles, Mike

  Bauer, Gary

  Bauer, Gregg

  Bazzi, Mohamad

  Beardall, Chuck

  Bechtel

  Behrends, Paul

  as Blackwater lobbyist

  Bellant, Russ

  Benjamin, Daniel

  Bentsen, Lloyd

  Bertelli, Chris

  on Fallujah ambush

  Bin Laden, Osama

  claims responsibility for Cole bombing

  and Cofer Black

  Krongard on

  Binns, Jack R.

  BKSH & Associates Worldwide

  Black, Charles, Jr.

  Black, J. Cofer

  Afghanistan CIA covert special operations

  and Carlos the Jackal

  on expanding role of mercenary industry

  on independent army concept

  on New Orleans operations

  and Osama bin Laden

  paramilitary strategies over infiltration

  on patriotic motivations

  and renditions

  speeches and reports

  targeted for sanction

  on Total Force concept

  Black Hawk Down movie

  Black Penguins

  Black sites (CIA covert prisons)

  Blackwater Aviation

  Blackwater Lodge and Training Center

  Blackwater North

  Blackwater Security Consulting

  CIA contracts

  guards Bremer

  in New Orleans operations

  as trendsetter in mercenary industry

  Blackwater 61 plane crash

  Air Force contract

  description

  flying conditions

  investigated by U.S. Army, NTSB

  lawsuit

  rescue/recovery mission

  Blackwater USA

  current status

  domestic operations division

  expansion

  and independent army concept

  origins, early development

  as preferred mercenary firm of U.S. government

  rebranding, business plan

  Blackwater West

  Blackwater Worldwide

  Blair, Tony

  Blood Money (Miller)

  Blumenthal, Sidney

  Bodman, Samuel

  Boeckmann, Alan

  Boeing scandal

  Boelens, Dan

  Boland & Madigan

  Bolivia

  Bolton, John

  Bonner, T. J.

  Boot, Max

  Boots and Coots

  Border security

  Borelli, Frank

  Bork, Robert

  Born Again (Colson)

  Bowen, Stuart, Jr.

  Boykin, Jerry

  Boykin, William

  BP oil company

  Brady Maquiavello, Herman

  Brahimi, Lakhdar

  Bremer, Duncan

  Bremer, Frances

  Bremer. Paul

  and antioccupation resistance movements

  and Fallujah

  fires Iraqi teachers, doctors, nurses

  governing policies

  grants immunity to operatives, Order

  IED attack

  and IG Joseph Schmitz

  leaves Iraq in secret

  and Najaf

  personal security detail (PSD)

  as religious zealot

  threatened by bin Laden, Al Qaeda

  Briody, Dan

  British mercenaries

  British SAS

  Broekhuizen, Ren

  Brooks, Doug

  on cost-effectiveness of private armies

  on historical mercenaries

  opposes South Africa’s antimercenary law

  Brown and Root (later KBR)

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew

  BTC oil pipeline

  Buchanan, Pat

  Buckham, Ed

  Bulgarian flight crew

  Burdzhanadze, Nino

  Bureau of Diplomatic Security

  Burke, Susan

  Burke O’Neil LLC,

  Burnett, Mark

  Burns, John

  Burns, Nicholas

  Burson-Marsteller

  Bush, Ed

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  and Al Jazeera

  and Blackwater

  Boykin on

  calls for increase in active duty troops

  and Caspian region project

  and Cofer Black

  creates Terrorist Threat Integration Center

  declares mission accomplished

  eases sanctions on southern Sudan

  and ECT manifesto

  and Fallujah ambush (2004)

  and IG Joseph Schmitz

  and militarization of Bureau of Diplomatic Security

  and Nisour Square

  and Posse Comitatus Act

  and privatization of government services

  repeals Davis-Bacon Act

  Bush, Jeb

  Bush, Laura

  Byrne, Brennan

  Byrnes, Edwin R.

  C&M Capitol Link

  CACI

  Callahan, Daniel

  Callahan, Robert J.

  Callahan & Blaine

  Callahan convoy. See Hay Nazzal Street massacre

  Calvin College

  Calvinism

  Cambone, Stephen

  Camden County, NC See also Moyock compound

  Camp Fallujah Marine base

  Camp Golf. See Najaf battle (April 2004)

  Camp Ridgeway

  Campbell, Todd

  Canales, Benjamin

  Cannistraro, Vincent

  Capeheart, Kelly

  Card, Andy

  Carey, Lance

  See also Blackwater sixty61 plane crash

  Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez)

  Carlson, Tucker

  Carter, Randall

  Caspian Pipeline Consortium

  Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project

  BTC pipeline

  significance for conflicts with Iran

  Casteel, Steve

  Castro, Fidel

 
; Catholic Answers

  Catholicism

  CBS

  CCR. See Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

  Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

  lawsuit filed for victims of Watahba Square killings

  Nisour Square shooting victims’ lawsuit

  Center for Security Policy

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See CIA

  Chalabi, Ahmad

  Cheney, Dick

  and Azerbaijan

  and Halliburton

  military privatization, outsourcing

  on New Paradigm

  and Project for a New American Century

  Cherkasky, Michael

  Chevron

  Cheyre, Luis Emilio

  Childrey, Tim

  Chile, Chilean commandos

  training in Honduras

  working for Blackwater

  working for Triple Canopy

  “Chilean Executions” briefing paper for Kissinger

  China

  China National Petroleum Corporation

  Christian conservative movement

  and Catholic conservatives

  and expanding role of Blackwater

  and Schmitz

  and Sudan crisis

  Christian Fatherhood (Wood)

  Christian Freedom International (CFI)

  Christian-supremacists

  Christmas Eve killing of Iraqi bodyguard

  Chrysler, Dick

  Church Committee

  CIA

  Blackwater Security Consulting contract

  and Buzzy Krongard

  in Chile

  and clandestine aviation

  and Cofer Black

  ex-agents working for Blackwater

  Phoenix assassination program (Vietnam)

  rendition program

  See also Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA

  City of mosques. See Fallujah, Iraq

  Civilian contractors

  See also Contractors in Iraq; Security contractors

  Civilian Reserve Corps, U.S.

  Clark, Al

  on founding of Blackwater

  on training standards

  Clark, Vern

  Clark, Wesley

  Clarke, Richard

  Clarridge, Duane

  Clinton, Bill

  Caspian region oil

  and CIA rendition program

  privatizes government, military

  restricts Lethal Findings

  Clinton, Hillary

  Cloonan, Jack

  CNN

  CNP. See Council for National Policy (CNP)

  Coalition of the willing

  Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

  Fallujah ambush report

  headquarters as Najaf battle site

  raids Sadr’s newspaper

  and Shaw scandal

  Coast Guard, U.S.

  Coburn, Tom

  Coca-Cola

  Cockburn, Patrick

  Code of conduct (IPOA)

  Cohen, Ariel

  Cole, Bruce

  Coll, Steve

  Collateral Investigations Board, U.S. Army

  Collective punishment concept

  Colombia

  contracting of forces

  Colson, Chuck

  Columbine High School shootings

  Combat Missions TV program

  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Congress

  Community Impact Committees (CICs)

  Compass, Eddie

  Compass Group

  Comstock, Barbara

  Congo

  Congressional hearings/investigations

  on contractors in Iraq

  on Fallujah ambush

  on Nisour Square shooting

  on outsourcing training of U.S. border agents

  See also Waxman, Henry

  ConocoPhilips

  Conservatives. See Christian conservative movement; Neoconservative movement

  Contract fraud

  Contract with America

  Contractor brigade See also Private army

  Contractors, security. See Security contractors

  Contractors in Iraq

  ineffectively monitored

  killed, abducted, targeted

  See also Security contractors

  Contractors on the Battlefield conference

  Contracts, security. See Security contractors

  Contreris, Adres

  Control Risks Group

  Convoys

  unarmored vehicles

  Conway, James T.

  Corporate Warriors (Singer)

  Cost plus contracts

  Costs of Blackwater operatives vs. soldiers

  Council for National Policy (CNP)

  Counterinsurgency

  Negroponte’s Salvador option

  Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA

  Court martial system. See Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

  CPA. See Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

  Crenshaw, William

  Critical Intervention Services

  Crocker, Ryan

  Crossfire TV program

  CTC. See Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA

  Cubic

  Cummings, Elijah

  Currituck County, NC

  Custer Battles

  Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)

  Dalrymple, David P.

  The Danger Zone radio program

  Darfur Region, Sudan

  Blackwater’s campaign to deploy

  See also Sudan

  “Darfur Solution: Send in the Mercenaries” (Boot) in Los Angeles Times

  Davis, Danny K.

  Death squads

  activities in Iraq

  Battalion 316 of Honduras

 

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