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

by Jeremy Scahill

  by Honduran death squads

  by Islam Karimov

  under Pinochet’s regime

  of renditioned prisoners

  White House on

  See also Humanitarian abuses

  Torture Taxi (Paglen; Thompson)

  Total Force concept

  and Blackwater 61 plane crash lawsuit

  defined

  and KBR

  mercenaries recognized as

  and tort liability system

  Total Intelligence Solutions

  Toward Tradition

  “Transforming the Military” (Rumsfeld) in Foreign Affairs

  Travolta, John

  Tricot, Tito

  Triple Canopy

  Troutman, Baxter

  Twyford, Ed

  Tyrrell, Anne

  Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

  Unitas

  United Airlines stock

  United Arab Emirates

  United Nations

  and crisis in Sudan

  and private army concept

  Unocal

  Uruguay

  U.S. Army Collateral Investigations Board

  U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division

  U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA)

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan

  US English Inc.

  USS Cole bombing

  Uzbekistan

  Van Raalte, Albertus

  Vanzant, James

  The Viet Cong Front in the U.S. (Schmitz, John G.)

  Vietnam War

  Von Steuben, Henning

  Von Steuben, Wilhelm

  Wages. See salaries of mercenaries

  Wales, Chris

  Walker, Michael

  Waller, J. Michael

  Wamgnet, Carlos

  War. See Privatized war

  War contracts. See Contractors in Iraq

  War Crimes Act

  War crimes lawsuit filed by Iraqi civilians

  War on terror

  and Azerbaijani Aliyev as Bush ally

  mercenaries as beneficiaries

  profits become domestic with Katrina

  rendering of prisoners

  Warner, John

  Wartime Contracting Commission

  Washington, George

  Washington Group International

  Watahba Square killings (September 9, 2007)

  Waterman, Steve

  Watson, Ron

  Waugh, Billy

  Waxman, Henry

  Weaponry, ammunition used by mercenaries

  Website rebranded

  West, Bing

  West 2006 conference

  Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

  White, Thomas

  White House National Energy Policy Development Group

  Wierda, Emilie Prince

  Wiley Rein law firm

  Williams, Curtis

  Wilson, Joe

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  Wolfram, Gary

  Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, and Rice

  Wood, Stephen

  Woodward, Bob

  World Evangelism Bible College

  World SWAT Challenge conference

  Worldwide Personal Protective Service (WPPS) program

  “Wrestling with Discipline . . .” speech (Schmitz)

  Wyden, Ron

  Yaphe, Judith

  Yaqubi, Mustafa

  Yassin, Ahmed

  Yassiri, Yas Ali Mohammed

  Young, Bill

  Young, Lonnie

  Your Solutions

  Yugoslavia

  Zalmay, Khalilzad

  Zembiac, Douglas

  Zovko, Danica

  Zovko, Jerry See also Fallujah ambush (March 2004)

  Zovko, Jozo

  Zovko, Tom

  Zwiep, Elsa. See Prince, Elsa Zwiep (later Broekhuizen)

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