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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
 
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

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