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also: Baghdad airport, central Baghdad, western Baghdad
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Custer Battles supplied_arms_to
Baghdad documented
“following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 27:53
Blackwater carried_out_attack
Baghdad documented
“whom successful companies could now afford. Lawsuits filed against private military companies dating back as far as 2004 languished oftentimes for many years. A judge in the D.C. court of appeals dismissed such a case in 2010, one that was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 38:58
Custer Battles carried_out_attack
Baghdad documented
“Custer battles were guarding the Baghdad airport, and Aranus was protecting oil installations in southern Iraq. The winner, though, would be a small British company that had provided security for Disney Cruise Line, you know, maritime secur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 49:10
SOC Inc. funded
Baghdad book_quoted
“whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 4:26
Triple Canopy funded
Baghdad book_quoted
“whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 4:26
Mentions (47)
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Sarkis' Israeli friends made it clear that they had been given the green light to supply those spare parts to Iran. Sarkis was smart enough to come back to Baghdad with the useful intelligence. He asked to speak privately with the defense m…
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When Casey arrived in Tel Aviv in April of 1981 to meet with General Hoffey, he brought with him a wealth of SR-71 spy satellite photography, as well as information on the air defenses of Iraq. On June 8th, the Israeli Air Force bombed the …
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to let the Iraqis get to know him first. Because the Iraqis were having problems modifying their long-range artillery, Sarkis contacted the ballistics expert in the world, the best one, the guy by the name of Gerald Bull, G-E-R-A-L-D, and h…
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The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald…
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The CIA was sending spy satellite downloading equipment to help Iraq counter the Iranian offensive. The plane refueled in Athens. And at dawn, the plane landed. Let's see. The plane moved from Turkish airspace into Iraq. And then there was …
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American pilot responded by saying, and how do you expect us to do that? The landing at Baghdad turned out to be uneventful, but the unloading was not routine. The four CIA technicians and their equipment was first off the aircraft. Half a …
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H-A-B-B-O-U-S-S, William Phelan, P-H-E-L-A-N, and Sarkis began their final negotiations on the uniform deal. In the middle of the negotiations, Sarkis and the CNN crew left Baghdad for the war front just north of Basra. By the time they ret…
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which involves production of military uniforms, will be a successful and long-lasting one. I can assure you that Colonel Brennan and former Attorney General John Mitchell will be responsible and constructive in working with your representat…
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was that the administration had gotten what they wanted out of him, that they had full access to Iraq. And Iraq, meanwhile, owed Sarkis close to $60 million by 1988. The final blow came in a trip to Baghdad in 1988. We came in and everythin…
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people like Sassoon. And he has some really interesting ties, but very strong connections. They come about from a different way. And then the other guy whose name I don't remember, who was originally from Baghdad, but had connections back t…
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get it messages, both of which Yusuf figured CIA ought to have known. The ISI leader loved the CIA satellite photos and its radio intercepts, but thought the secret warriors spent too much time spinning their wheels. Bert Dunn, the incoming…
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approach. The fight began in the Gulf War, continued as a paramilitary effort, and then faded. It began with the first President Bush, who at the onset of the Gulf War compared Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, and as hostilities unfolded, vi…
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to be in charge of the CIA front government, like a government in exile. Thomas Twinton, still the deputy at the time, said of these exiles, quote, they needed a lot of help and didn't know where to start, unquote. So the CIA is there to ho…
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was right. Most of the CIA's cash went for the care and feeding of the exiles, which it always does, kind of like the Cuban exiles and the Venezuelan exiles. That might have been all right if the CIA had some prospect of depositing it back …
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Among the generations of case officers who joined the agency after Vietnam, Merrick spoke Turkish and could find his way around northern Iraq, although it often seemed like slicing salami. Merrick thought the Iraq project, codenamed Achille…
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based in the Kurdish zone, assembled the bombs, and activists were paid to place them places. March 96, a former chief of station of Saddam's army, General Nazar Khosrowsky, defected and threw his support behind this group. There were other…
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and former CIA Wolseley volunteered pro bono legal aid to the Iraqis. The case turned into a spectacle. Even this debacle did not end the sorry story of the Iraqi project, a sort of tar baby that proceeded in tandem with the overt U.S.-U.N.…
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to overthrow Saddam, they were using his information even though DIA had said it was worthless. The U.S. military flew Shalabi back to Baghdad and trained 70 of his troops as auxiliary. That number compared to plans to recruit 5,000 free Ir…
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He became a figure in the U.S. installed Iraqi provisional government. Of course, he's a spy. Other Iraqi elections, Shalabi had failed to gain any seats at all for his political party, but may yet appear in the Baghdad government, which he…
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Paparazzi had followed them to the hotel. Back in Tehran, violent mobs controlled the streets of the capital. And after 28 years on the peacock throne, the Pavlovi dynasty seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Fearing for their lives, the …
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from fleeing the country, telling him that it was his duty to stand with the rebel forces and assured him of U.S. protection. But the Shah was a chicken shit and left. He went to Baghdad and then to Rome. As the turbulent events unfolded in…
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on his personal aircraft, as well as took him on yachting expeditions. Jane and I are leaving to Paris on Thursday. He wrote Dulles, please join us. Dulles in turn opened doors for rights men in far-flung oil capitals like Baghdad and Tripo…
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So the person that is the contract awarder puts down the requirements in writing as to what they're bidding on doing. That person at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad was a guy by the name of Tony, and he has a hyphenated last …
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America Seek an Asylum. And he moved into a suburb of D.C. in Virginia in 1995. He worked as a carpenter and several other things. And he was in, he was watching the U.S. Marines topple the statue of Saddam Hussein in Central…
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received several military awards, and everybody has nothing but good things to say about him. And it goes on to talk about on another deployment in 2005, he was coming back from returning to the Baghdad airport, which is where a big camp wa…
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So he eventually gets medically discharged. So they totally destroyed his career. And he goes on to talk about how he was very familiar with Blackwater and DynCorp as part of these contractors that had been in Baghdad. And he makes it.…
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following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…
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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 …
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Custer battles were guarding the Baghdad airport, and Aranus was protecting oil installations in southern Iraq. The winner, though, would be a small British company that had provided security for Disney Cruise Line, you know, maritime secur…
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been told about private military operations. There are no rules of engagement, but we're going to at least examine what the book has to say about it. So this chapter starts out in 2005 with all of the new private military companies in Baghd…
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On the very day that the audit was released, six Blackwater employees were killed when their helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad. The next day, the U.S. contractor Halliburton told the media that insurgent attacks were so intense it m…
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may not have connected the shooting with the company running the coordination hub in Baghdad, Aegis. For Qadhim, the silence would be as tragic as the gunshot itself. For Aegis, it was sheer luck that while its critics and competitors conti…
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Although Qadhim's shooting was exceptional, random shootings were not uncommon in Iraq at all. In later years, a former private security contractor who had worked for a private military contractor in Baghdad at that time, in an on-record, n…
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shot from inside a contractor's vehicle and it showed members of a security team shooting at Iraqi traffic on Route Irish, which was the main route from Baghdad Green Zone into the International Airport. Barrels of guns extended out of the …
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would list offices in Washington, D.C., Baghdad, and Kabul, as well as Nairobi, Kathmandu, and Manama in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The American entity, however, was especially important to the growth of the business. The firm's new roost in W…
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was under a blinding spotlight for on the 16th, Blackwater contractors opened fire with automatic weapons and grenade launchers on a busy street west of central Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and wounding…
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The incident happened around noon in Nisor Square, a traffic circle outside of the fortified areas of Baghdad known as the International Zone or Green Zone. The convoy of four heavily armed trucks filled with 19 Blackwater contractors and u…
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personal security detail located about a mile from Nisor Square. That detail was in charge of transporting U.S. diplomats to a meeting that day in western Baghdad with officials from USAID. Raven 23's job typically was to provide backed-up …
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Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …
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because of the hepatitis C. Qadim was not aware of the special study of the private military companies at the Command and General Staff College that spring, nor did he and General Cardin ever meet. But soon they both would leave Leavenworth…
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as he returned to Baghdad International Airport after an intelligence mission in June 2005. The shooting, Eisenberg stressed, occurred at a place where there were no ongoing hostilities nor credible threats of imminent hostilities. And he e…
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And it starts off with by the time President Obama announced the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, the private military security companies were in line to collect billions of dollars in contracts for another five years. They included…
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whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …
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These contracts hardly resembled the feeding frenzy of the Iraq War, but they were lucrative for several firms and resulted in new ones being created, some without any track record and many in search of subcontractors from third countries. …
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Still true today. Then he moved on to an unscripted part. Quote, just get rid of the embassy in Baghdad. We're pretending that we're coming home from Baghdad. We build an embassy there that cost a billion dollars and we're putting 17,000 co…
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whom successful companies could now afford. Lawsuits filed against private military companies dating back as far as 2004 languished oftentimes for many years. A judge in the D.C. court of appeals dismissed such a case in 2010, one that was …
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of the private military company in Baghdad in 2007 while she was in a car riding home from church. The defendants were a company based in North Carolina under contract to USAID and a private military company based in Dubai hired by USAID co…