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INDEX
Abbass, Usama Fadhil
ABC News
Abdallah, Mohamed
Abdel-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque compound
Abdullah, King of Jordan
Abdul-Mahdi, Adil
Abizaid, John P.
Abortion issue
Abraham, Spencer
Abramoff, Jack
Abramoff lobbying scandal
Abu Ghraib prison scandal
Accountability
and Blackwater
and IPOA code of conduct
War Crimes Act as consideration
See also
Immunity from prosecution and litigation
Immunity from prosecution and litigation
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Aegis Defense Services contract
Aero Contractors
Afghanistan
and CIA
oil pipeline scheme
See also
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
Air America
Air Force, U.S., contract with
Blackwater
Air marshall program
Air Quest Inc.
Al Arabiya
Al Hawza
(The Seminary) newspaper
(The Seminary) newspaper
Al Jazeera
Al Qaed (The Leader’s) School, Fallujah, Iraq
Al Qaeda
-backed militias
Cofer Black’s CTC strategy
Albazzaz, Ali Hussamaldeen
Aldridge, Edward C. “Pete,”
Aldulayme, Salam
Alesawi, Talid
Alex Brown Investments
Alexander Strategy Group
Alien Tort Statue
Aliyev, Ilham
Allawi, Ayad
Allawi, Iyad
Allbaugh, Joseph
Allen, George
Allende, Salvador
Allred, Gloria
Ambush tactics
Ameedi, Hana al-
American Enterprise Institute
“American Principles as Potent Weapons” speech (Schmitz)
American Red Cross
Ammunition, blended-metal
Amnesty International
Amway
Anderson, Jon
Anderson, Jon Lee
Anderson, Mike
Andrews, Charlie
Angola
Antimercenary laws
Anti-Pinkerton Act
Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) program
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
(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)
(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)
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