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Claims (3)
Operation Vigilant Resolve carried_out_attack
Fallujah documented
“of the torture of prisoners. When the U.S. media broadcast it, the world became aware for the first time of the Pentagon's use of armed civilians employed by private military companies in Iraq and of the fact that private contractors as wel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 42:28
United States ordered_assassination_of
Fallujah documented
“of the torture of prisoners. When the U.S. media broadcast it, the world became aware for the first time of the Pentagon's use of armed civilians employed by private military companies in Iraq and of the fact that private contractors as wel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 42:28
H.R. McMaster carried_out_attack
Fallujah guest_asserted
“You know, he wasn't singing those tunes when he was a colonel in charge of an entire armored cavalry regiment. And on the morning of 9 July in 2005, he surrounded the entire city and opened up with an entire battalion full of Bradleys and A…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 1:13:12
Mentions (11)
▶ 1:46:28
Think back to when I felt fairly guilty about what I was doing overseas as well. And I had just gotten off the battlefield. I think it was about December of 2004. We came out of Fallujah. And one of the books I found in my tent with my guys…
▶ 41:00
and the 26-year-old American contractor named Nicholas Berg from Pennsylvania was beheaded in retaliation for the treatment of the inmates. Berg's killers videotaped it. Equally dark and startling was what happened in Fallujah, a city west …
▶ 42:28
of the torture of prisoners. When the U.S. media broadcast it, the world became aware for the first time of the Pentagon's use of armed civilians employed by private military companies in Iraq and of the fact that private contractors as wel…
▶ 43:30
and the number of Iraqi attacks on American forces would average 87 a day, the highest level since the beginning of the war, a figure that did not include attacks against private military security. In other words, they hid those. None of th…
▶ 44:02
had warned the victim's supervisors not to send them into Fallujah. It was a route always fraught with danger. And earlier that morning, there had been intelligence about cells of insurgents gathering in Fallujah to ambush Americans. There …
▶ 5:54
17 dead and 24 wounded. The tragedy, the latest atrocity of war, drew more attention than ever before to the consequences of privatizing war. While the incident at Fallujah in 2004 had earned Blackwater the label Bush Private Army, what hap…
▶ 8:21
But she was present. Also, there were widows, children and siblings and parents of the four Blackwater employees murdered in Fallujah in 2004 and the families of soldiers who died in November 2004 when a Blackwater aviation plane took an un…
▶ 36:07
I want now to recognize the mother of Jerry Sopko, who is here today. Jerry was an Army Ranger before becoming a Blackwater employee. He died in Fallujah in an infamous mission, fraught with mistakes on the part of Blackwater supervisors. T…
▶ 41:35
and accountability issues have not been resolved, followed by legislative proposals, no result. This is the pattern prior to Nassau Square. In May 2004, following the tortures at Abu Ghraib and the Fallujah disaster, she wrote a letter to P…
▶ 42:30
There were wake-up calls before NYSERF Square, especially Fallujah and Abu Ghraib, but the gap between the companies and oversight was never closed. In 2004, everyone informed about it was certain there would be another incident, and unfort…
▶ 1:12:42
demonstrably just the most horrible thing in the world. I like what you said about Ernesto Guevara because I don't like him. I would have killed him myself. But, you know, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's left. That's why I neve…