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Wesley Clark carried_out_attack Bosnia guest_asserted
“None of us knew. None of us knew that the CIA was importing Islamic terrorists that they had trained out of Afghanistan into Bosnia that was doing all of the chaos there that then led to the decision of Wesley Clark to go into and do the ai…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 23:28
Al Qaeda carried_out_attack Bosnia caller_asserted
“You talked about Bosnia last night, and I witnessed that firsthand going to Bosnia after the war and on mission trips like three years in a row. And I ran into al-Qaeda, and this was long before 9-11, long before I ever heard of Osama bin L…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:00:49
Bill Clinton carried_out_attack Bosnia book_quoted
“finally, would not be Clinton's solution. He resorted to bombing, an operation called deliberate force. Combined with U.S. mediation by Richard Holbrook, that broker to peace deal signed at Dayton, Ohio, towards the end of 1995, the arms em…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 26:40
Richard Holbrooke proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“finally, would not be Clinton's solution. He resorted to bombing, an operation called deliberate force. Combined with U.S. mediation by Richard Holbrook, that broker to peace deal signed at Dayton, Ohio, towards the end of 1995, the arms em…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 26:40
Iran supplied_arms_to Bosnia documented
“Serbian gun positions that would be destroyed during Operation Deliberate Force. And he reported on the massacre at several different locations. When Roy discovered the downside of the Iranian arms traffic, the Iranian-controlled Bosnian In…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 45:55
NATO carried_out_attack Bosnia host_asserted
“I've already done that and we will go through it step by step. The whole agitation, the influx of Chechnya was done to Russia. Chechnya, they imported Mujahideen and al-Qaeda operatives there and basically did the same thing to Russia. And …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:44:47
NATO carried_out_attack Bosnia book_quoted
“enabling Muslim forces to catch up in armaments while the U.S. used the power of aerial bombardment to coerce Bosnian Serbs into observing ceasefire zones. President Clinton found little international support for lifting the arms embargo, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 7:09
CIA funded Bosnia book_quoted
“No kidding. But it evolved in new ways. Langley provided money, political experts, and propagandists to assist moderate politicians in 2000 Bosnia. That's not new. That's not new. I'm sorry. Come on, dude. We know more than that. It's not n…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 40:47
Bill Clinton proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“attack on Sarajevo in 1992, many were killed. During the U.S. election campaign, candidate Bill Clinton spoke of lifting the arms embargo. Once Clinton was president, he needed to deliver on that promise. Clinton's policy began with lift an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 6:39
Iran supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“had seized a shipment of arms on an Iranian aircraft, early evidence that the Ayatollahs had pitched in to help their Islamic brothers. The traffic continued and broadened, with only occasional surface blips of incidents alerting the world …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:08
Saudi Arabia financed_via Bosnia book_quoted
“had seized a shipment of arms on an Iranian aircraft, early evidence that the Ayatollahs had pitched in to help their Islamic brothers. The traffic continued and broadened, with only occasional surface blips of incidents alerting the world …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:08
Turkey supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:38
Serbia supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:38
Greece supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:38
Israel supplied_arms_to Bosnia book_quoted
“and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 11:38
Richard Holbrooke proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“At the very onset, the Clinton administration diplomat Richard Holbrooks had written a paper identifying Bosnia as a key test for America's European policy, recognizing the arm flows and recommending that we allow covert supply of arms to t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 13:12
George F. Kennan proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 13:42
Peter Galbraith proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 13:42
Tom Fitton covered_up Bosnia book_quoted
“at other ways to arm the Muslims. Galbraith expected Iran to be the supplier. The Directorate of Operations under Tom Twitton opposed the operation, according to a later Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, falsely informing State D…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 14:11
Jean Kirkpatrick proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“Paper arguing that America, having just presided over the creation of a new Bosnian federation, would be participating in its destruction if the embargo was left in place. Notice how they just kind of couched themselves right into the opera…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 15:06
Morton Abramovich proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“Paper arguing that America, having just presided over the creation of a new Bosnian federation, would be participating in its destruction if the embargo was left in place. Notice how they just kind of couched themselves right into the opera…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 15:06
Anthony Lake covered_up Bosnia book_quoted
“Trudsman's vice president clarified the U.S. position by emphasizing that Clinton did not wish to be put in a position to say yes or no. Isn't that a great way to run foreign policy? On May 2nd, Tony Lake, trying to keep this entire matter …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 18:13
Richard Holbrooke proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“At the end of July, Richard Holbrooke took over as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and promptly tried to implement the actions suggested in his transition paper. Holbrooke put together a plan to give Bosnian Muslims as muc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 19:42
Peter Galbraith proposed Bosnia book_quoted
“in Zagreb and asked for $250 million in weapons. Developments convinced the station chief that nefarious schemes were afoot. In reports on the arms traffic, he began feeding Langley information on Holbrook's activities. A foot-high stack of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 21:16
George Tenet exposed Bosnia book_quoted
“In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 22:09
Anthony Harrington exposed Bosnia book_quoted
“In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 22:09
United States carried_out_attack Bosnia host_asserted
“And then implicating the worse it gets, the more military people they want down there. So then we have more dead bodies of American military. This practice of outsourcing sensitive work to the same corporations was practiced earlier in Croa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 37:53
Operation Gladio member_of Bosnia host_asserted
“We're going to talk about Cyprus and the John Paul II in depth later on. So that kind of gives us like a wide sketch of Operation Gladio and some of the things that it touches. But let me go through. Obviously, Bosnia was Operation Gladio.…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:09:33
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Bosnia host_asserted
“Bosnia is a classic example of that, but there are many others. So, yes, it was 100 percent. It's all orchestrated. There's nothing random about it. And you can see it so clearly once you understand how Gladio works. Sunshine, go ahead. Yea…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:44:52
Bill Clinton ordered_assassination_of Bosnia book_quoted
“At Oxford, when he was on his Rhodes Scholarship, was the guy chosen to ask. President Clinton was leaving for California for the funeral of former President Richard Nixon. Lake invited Talbot to return aboard Air Force One. There, the two …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 16:36
Southern Air Transport operated_in Bosnia caller_asserted
“to create blackouts. And so they would land in the pitch black and unload and reload. And he said that was pretty wild. And then he did mention he was in like Bosnia, Albania, the Balkans. So that's pretty much what I got out of it. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:42

Mentions (69)

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25
▶ 1:24:33 the reception of forces for the special operators and the PJs, the pararescue guys coming for the air operations going on when the CIA set up the dissolving of Yugoslavia and the air war, Bosnia, all of that crap. So I was involved in all o…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
▶ 23:01 One of the really interesting things about this is I was in Italy. I was part of the NATO reception of forces for Bosnia. They staged all of the special forces and not all of them, a lot of the special forces and PJs at our base because we …
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
▶ 23:28 None of us knew. None of us knew that the CIA was importing Islamic terrorists that they had trained out of Afghanistan into Bosnia that was doing all of the chaos there that then led to the decision of Wesley Clark to go into and do the ai…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3
▶ 1:09:33 We're going to talk about Cyprus and the John Paul II in depth later on. So that kind of gives us like a wide sketch of Operation Gladio and some of the things that it touches. But let me go through. Obviously, Bosnia was Operation Gladio.…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3
▶ 1:44:23 These university things are a distraction and they are typical of Operation Gladio style events. That's what they did when they did the coup in Ukraine. It's what they did initially. And these youth things, Bosnia, Bosnia is one of the best…
Operation Gladio (241113)
▶ 1:28:49 It also provides the CIA the opportunity to find new networks of people they can pay to be agitators. And then what they do is once they find them in one country, they ship them around to other countries in order to have bigger crowds to be…
Operation Gladio - Belgium
▶ 1:44:47 I've already done that and we will go through it step by step. The whole agitation, the influx of Chechnya was done to Russia. Chechnya, they imported Mujahideen and al-Qaeda operatives there and basically did the same thing to Russia. And …
Operation Gladio - Bulgaria
▶ 1:41 Where Bulgaria is because it matters. If you send it to me, I'll post it up in the purple pill. It's in the signal under links on spaces. I just posted everything I want you to put in the pill on spaces in signal. So in Europe, if you would…
Operation Gladio - Bulgaria
▶ 17:14 And in Liberia, he supplied Charles Taylor with arms for their civil war. And he used the UAE for much of his financial arrangements. He was involved in arming the good guys, the anti-CIA and NATO guys in the Bosnia conflict.…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20
▶ 55:52 assistant to Ambassador Holbrooke, who, for those of you who don't remember, he was intricately involved in the Yugoslavia-Bosnia false flag to break up Yugoslavia. And let's see, from 98 to 2000, he served as executive assistant deputy sec…
Operation Gladio-Turkey
▶ 1:58:23 that the al-Qaeda and Mujahideen that had been funded by the CIA was implanted into Chechnya, much as they were into Bosnia, to create the strategy of tension.…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:00:22 I thought I was awake, but you listening, learning about Gladio is really waking me up. And, you know, I just applaud you for everything I put in the bubble. You know, the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Right. But what I'm findi…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:00:49 You talked about Bosnia last night, and I witnessed that firsthand going to Bosnia after the war and on mission trips like three years in a row. And I ran into al-Qaeda, and this was long before 9-11, long before I ever heard of Osama bin L…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:02:13 These guys from Turkey went in and recruited individuals. So it's not all of that. It's very similar to Bosnia, right? There were good Muslim fighters and then there was Al Qaeda. So, yeah, I stand corrected. And I'm following you anyway, b…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:02:55 They train the militants inside of China to use inside of China, but they also train way more than they need inside of China. So then they have an established network that they can take them outside of China, traffic them through Afghanista…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:03:53 When you get to Bosnia, it became such a interesting dynamic because I was in Italy when that all kicked off and we provided all of the search and rescue capability. That was all staged at the base that I was at in Italy across the Adriatic…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:04:20 The Muslim population had lived side by side with the Christian population in peace all of that time. And then all of a sudden, there's this injected radical Islamic capability terrorist, who are the people that they were telling you to sta…
Operation Gladio - Turkistan
▶ 1:04:51 religious entities like Christians. And they purposely did this in Bosnia. They took Christians that people had associated with Christians and attacked the Muslims in order to outrage the Muslims to get them to attack the Christians. Now, a…
Operation Gladio - UK
▶ 1:07:55 was given the extraordinary explanation by a police officer that delays in identification were occurring because hundreds of body parts had been dispatched for expert examination at a laboratory in Bosnia. Bosnia. You know, because London o…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 35:20 and ARINC have been major beneficiaries of Plan Colombia. DynCorp, which is a technology and services company with over $1.8 billion in annual revenue and more than 23,000 employees all over the world, was the largest private military compa…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 37:53 And then implicating the worse it gets, the more military people they want down there. So then we have more dead bodies of American military. This practice of outsourcing sensitive work to the same corporations was practiced earlier in Croa…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 41:47 Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 1:14:42 to create blackouts. And so they would land in the pitch black and unload and reload. And he said that was pretty wild. And then he did mention he was in like Bosnia, Albania, the Balkans. So that's pretty much what I got out of it. And the…
The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review
▶ 27:30 He works with Haiti after the failed CIA coup and all of the unrest there to bring Aristide back into his presidency after the CIA had overthrown him. And in 1994, he was in Bosnia trying to negotiate a ceasefire there. In 95, he's in Afric…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 9:59 It's probably too simplistic to say that he is part of this global gladio. And notice where they're conducting terror events inside of France. Afghan Arabs have been identified fighting in Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and we know there's…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 3:57 Yugoslavia had been held together by a combination of monarch power and opposition to Italian encroachment. In the Cold War, Yugoslavia had Joseph Tito and his national communism as basically the guy in charge. Bosnian Muslims.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 4:29 long the disadvantaged population began to gain status during the Tito period. Fear and envy of Muslims certainly figured into the Serbian attitudes. And again, this is just the author's perspective on this. The forces in play by the end of…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 5:01 that confederation fractured into three mini states. An entity composed of Bosnian Muslims, a Croatian state, and Serbia. There were rivalries. There were accusations of ethnic cleansing. These, obviously, were the focus of NATO's efforts t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 6:07 The lightly armed UN protection force with virtually no authority watched in horror as Bosnian Serbs and Muslims fought each other. The Serbian Republic was accused of arming Bosnian Serb forces, even providing cadre of instructors and inte…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 6:39 attack on Sarajevo in 1992, many were killed. During the U.S. election campaign, candidate Bill Clinton spoke of lifting the arms embargo. Once Clinton was president, he needed to deliver on that promise. Clinton's policy began with lift an…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 8:38 Leaders indicated that they might go for the strike, but not the lift part. Clinton's national security advisor was Anthony Lake. He was on board. He publicly advocated for the lift and strike policy. In the administration, Soderbergh watch…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 9:13 which it became difficult to ask others to do the same. That summer, Clinton directed Lake to reexamine all options. The security advisor responded in July, asking the Pentagon how many U.S. troops would be necessary to end the siege in Sar…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 9:44 With opinion polls running against American participation in the UN force and even more opposed to airstrikes, Lake wanted to coerce the Bosnian Serbs into freeing Sarajevo and other enclaves and thought air power could do the job. Clinton …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 10:10 Congress, too, pressured for an end while simultaneously opposing any commitment of U.S. forces. The CIA reported in the fall of 93 that the Muslims were hard-pressed and that tens of thousands might not survive the winter, setting up the c…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 10:39 to back the lift and strike policy. Then met with President Clinton to urge Congress to approve U.S. troops to guarantee a U.N. enforcement operation. House members of the International Relations Committee warned the president not to expect…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 11:08 had seized a shipment of arms on an Iranian aircraft, early evidence that the Ayatollahs had pitched in to help their Islamic brothers. The traffic continued and broadened, with only occasional surface blips of incidents alerting the world …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 11:38 and also, behind the scenes, the CIA. These countries bought weapons from Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and others. Turkey is often pictured as having organized and served as a conduit for this traffic. Bosnian Serbs received…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 12:09 The question of arms flows brought the CIA. Diplomacy still advanced at a glacial pace. The EU made new peace proposals, newly confident with their weapons and arms deals. The Bosnian Muslims rejected them. A few months later, the Croatians…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 12:38 the Croatians, and Muslims. Muslim forces remained hard-pressed fighting Bosnian Serbs covertly backed by Serbian Republic troops. Peter Galbraith, who was the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, later said, quote, the Bosnian people left unarmed a…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 13:12 At the very onset, the Clinton administration diplomat Richard Holbrooks had written a paper identifying Bosnia as a key test for America's European policy, recognizing the arm flows and recommending that we allow covert supply of arms to t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 13:42 public publicized a menu of options which included sending western troops to enforce designated safe havens in bosnia initiating covert actions against milosevic who was head of the serbian republic in late 93 and 94 u.s government official…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 15:06 Paper arguing that America, having just presided over the creation of a new Bosnian federation, would be participating in its destruction if the embargo was left in place. Notice how they just kind of couched themselves right into the opera…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 16:36 At Oxford, when he was on his Rhodes Scholarship, was the guy chosen to ask. President Clinton was leaving for California for the funeral of former President Richard Nixon. Lake invited Talbot to return aboard Air Force One. There, the two …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 18:13 Trudsman's vice president clarified the U.S. position by emphasizing that Clinton did not wish to be put in a position to say yes or no. Isn't that a great way to run foreign policy? On May 2nd, Tony Lake, trying to keep this entire matter …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 19:12 what had happened without giving any indication that Clinton had made a decision. Within a week, the U.S. Senate passed two amendments, which, though mutually contradictory, of course, clearly signaled its preference to lift the embargo. Du…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 19:42 At the end of July, Richard Holbrooke took over as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and promptly tried to implement the actions suggested in his transition paper. Holbrooke put together a plan to give Bosnian Muslims as muc…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 20:17 The weapons would be solicited from third-party countries. Just weeks later, General Wesley Clark, newly appointed plans and policy director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited the region in at least two different conversations, includin…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 21:16 in Zagreb and asked for $250 million in weapons. Developments convinced the station chief that nefarious schemes were afoot. In reports on the arms traffic, he began feeding Langley information on Holbrook's activities. A foot-high stack of…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 21:45 Price warned the CIA director that a covert arms channel would be costly and inevitably found out. Jim Wolseley, reading the feed from Zagreb, his link to Lake was very tenuous, feared the extent to which the NSC contemplated a covert opera…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 22:09 In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 40:47 No kidding. But it evolved in new ways. Langley provided money, political experts, and propagandists to assist moderate politicians in 2000 Bosnia. That's not new. That's not new. I'm sorry. Come on, dude. We know more than that. It's not n…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 12:14 It is not DynCorp's IT work, however, that earned its notoriety. There are controversial uses of DynCorp personnel in military roles that have raised eyebrows. The most well-known of these functions are guard services provided in unstable r…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 18:07 It wasn't just DynCorp that was involved in Colombia operations. There were also others. During the 1990s, DynCorp had been contracted in Bosnia as part of the international peacekeeping operations there. The withdrawal of the Serbian force…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 20:01 It was later turned into a movie. Even more serious allegations were made by Ben Johnston, a Texan hired by DynCorp to service helicopters in their hangar in Comanche Base Camp, which was then one of two U.S. military bases in Bosnia and He…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 25:15 This is no doubt due to the fact that it was a large, let's see, while DynCorp had at times displayed Republican leanings, there is no question that they had made many inroads in Democrats' area as well. Planned Columbia and peacekeeping ef…
The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11
▶ 42:23 seen combat several times. He was in the Falklands. He also, let's see, was in the Iraq War and in Bosnia. During the early 1990s, Spicer got his first taste of controversy with his Scott guards had been deployed to Ireland as part of the T…
The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13
▶ 36:56 Kellogg, Brown, and Root contractors were dispatched to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Somalia, Zaire, Haiti, a large swath of Southwest Asia, all to support U.S. Army operations. The Balkans, on the wh…
The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13
▶ 37:27 Air War. And the infamous Carlyle Group provided most of the interpreters used by the U.S. Army and another defense contractor by the name of BDM, Bravo Delta Michael, which was a major defense contractor, an intelligence contractor that wa…
The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13
▶ 38:24 The Private Military Corporation's Professional Resources, Military Professional Resources, Inc. was contracted to train the nation's army. It later did the same for Bosnia. Elsewhere, DynCorp assisted the U.S. Army in Bosnia with its suppl…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 1:00:42 private military expenditures had grown from hundreds of millions to billions. It was in the Balkans in the 1990s that the U.S. politicians from both parties began to fully appreciate this value of using private military because it gives th…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 1:06:25 this time because of U.S. commitment of 20,000 peacekeepers to an international force in Bosnia. By then, there had been analysis beyond Brown and Root showing that the advantages of privatizing logistics support was perfect. To be sure, th…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1
▶ 1:06:53 Instead of calling up thousands of reservists to go to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.S. government contracted it all out. It's like it's not happening. Virginia-based DynCorp and Brown and Roof participated. Such a strategy removed the poli…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2
▶ 14:49 Thinking about the war now and occupations later is not an acceptable solution. Consistent with this reasoning, Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki said in February 2003 that to occupy Iraq would require several hundred thousand soldi…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2
▶ 26:01 a firm that got its start in the air cargo business in the 1940s and later developed a reputation of serving America in dangerous areas. They were a favorite of the CIA. DynCorp had supplied former police officers for the International Poli…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6
▶ 30:37 The word at Leavenworth that spring was that he would soon receive his second star, thus becoming a major general, and would return to Iraq, where he had already held three command posts. A West Point grad, he had two master's degree, one i…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6
▶ 35:53 Cardin knew most of the world did not distinguish between public and private sector security and defense in the United States military missions. This concerned him, as it did the participants in the study. And although their case study for …
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3
▶ 1:00:11 the instigators of the Chechnya rebellion were leftovers from the Mujahideen that had been associated with the CIA. These people are kept basically in a stockpile and they can just pluck them out and use them wherever they want. They use th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5
▶ 1:34:30 After the end of the Cold War, you know, we know about Bosnia and Serbia. And the intervention there, I think, one way of looking at it. We lost him. Hello, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Yeah, I mean, I think in that 95, 96 period,…
The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5
▶ 1:36:06 Later on, you have ISIS and blah, blah, blah. So they began the incubation of the, quote, unquote, radical Islamic terrorists in the 80s, well before the Soviet Union collapsed, by baiting Russia in that gave them a reason to put all of thi…