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and Al Jazeera
 
and Fallujah
 
on Najaf battle
 
King, Martin Luther Jr.
 
King, Robert
 
King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (Jordan)
 
“Kingdoms in Conflict” essay (Colson)
 
Kinzer, Stephen
 
Kirby, David
 
Kissinger, Henry
 
Klebold, Dylan
 
Klein, Naomi
 
Knapp, Eric
 
Knocke, Russ
 
Koevoet
 
Koopman, Doug
 
Koppel, Ted
 
Kornbluh, Peter
 
Korrey, Edward
 
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus
 
Kosovo war (1999)
 
Kostov, Lyubomir
 
Kristol, William
 
Kroll Inc.
 
Kromm, Chris
 
Krongard, Alvin B. “Buzzy,”
 
Krongard, Howard “Cookie,”
 
Krueger, Alan
 
Krugman, Paul
 
Kucinich, Dennis
 
on impunity for private contractors
 
Kufa, Iraq
 
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
 
Kuwait
 
 
 
Lacquement, David B.
 
Lafayette, Gilbert de Motier
 
Lafayette Park, Washington .C.
 
LaHaye, Tim
 
Laitin, David
 
Laos
 
Lapin, Daniel
 
Larry King Live
TV program
 
Lasseter, Tom
 
Latin America
 
Law enforcement
 
domestic operations conducted by mercenaries
 
Lawsuits
 
Blackwater 61 plane crash
 
Fallujah ambush
 
for Nisour Square shooting victims
 
for Watahba Square killing of Iraqi civilians
 
See also
Immunity from prosecution and litigation
 
“Lawyers for Terror” (Waller) in
New York
Post
 
Le Mas
 
Leahy, Patrick
 
Leary, William M.
 
Left Behind
novels (LaHaye)
 
Lekota, Mosiuoa
 
Lepaterique, Honduras, secret training camp
 
Letelier, Orlando
 
Lethin, Clarke
 
LeTourneau, Mary Kay
 
Levens, William
 
Levin, Carl
 
LeVine, Mark
 
Libby. Lewis “Scooter,”
 
Libi, Ibn al-Shaykh al-
 
Licensed to Kill
(Pelton)
 
Lincoln, Abraham
 
Linker, Damon
 
Lobbying
 
Lobbying scandal.
See
Abramoff lobbying scandal
 
Lockheed Martin
 
LOGCAP contract
 
Lumir Corporation
 
Lynch, Stephen
 
Maass, Peter
 
Madfai, Muslih al-
 
Madrick, Jeff
 
Mafraji, Sami Farhood al-
 
Magazine Publishers of America
 
Mahajan, Rahul
 
Mahdi Army
 
Mahmood, Jamal Shaqir
 
Maliki, Nouri Kamel al-
 
Maloney, Carolyn
 
Man vs. Beast
TV program
 
Mann, Simon
 
Manríquez, Roberto
 
Mansoor, Peter
 
Mansour, Ahmed
 
Margelov, Mikhail
 
Marine Corps, U.S.
 
and Fallujah
 
at Najaf battle
 
Marsh & McLennan
 
Martinez, Waldo
 
Masciangelo, Bill
 
Massoud, Ahmed Shah
 
Mathews, Bill
 
Mattis, James
 
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
 
Mayer, Jane
 
McBride, Kevin
 
McCain, John
 
McCarthy, Joseph
 
McClellan, Dale
 
McClellan, Scott
 
McCormack, Brian
 
McHenry, Patrick
 
McLennand, Francis
 
McMahon, Michael
 
See also
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
 
McQuown, Justin
 
McVeigh, Timothy
 
Media
 
coverage of Fallujah
 
coverage of New Orleans
 
and Nisour Square shooting
 
and PKK weapon exchange
 
Meese, Edwin
 
Meet the Press
TV program
 
Mehamdy, Abdelaziz Faisal Hamid
 
Méndez, Angel
 
Menische, John
 
Mercenaries, mercenary industry
 
expanding roles
 
massive deployment into Iraq
 
militia (
see
Private army)
 
motivated by religious zealotry
 
oversight of, by IPOA
 
profiting from New Orleans operations
 
prospects under future U.S. administrations
 
rebranded
 
recognized as part of Total Force
 
as silent partners
 
as term
 
in U.S. history
 
See also
Blackwater Security Consulting; Security contractors
 
Messner, J. J.
 
Mexico border security
 
Michigan Family Forum (MFF)
 
Michigan Prayer Network
 
Miers, Harriet
 
Miles, Marc
 
Military, U.S.
 
anti-Blackwater positions expressed
 
Blackwater described as extension
 
convoy intervenes in standoff (May 2007)
 
downsizing, privatizing effects (
see
Outsourcing; Privatization of military and government services)
 
investigates Nisour Square shooting
 
soldiers killed in Blackwater plane crash
 
unable to oversee private contractors
 
Military Professional Resources Inc.
 
Military-industrial complex
 
Militias
 
anti-immigrant in U.S.
 
Janjaweed, Darfur, Sudan
 
mercenaries as
 
See also
Iraqi militias
 
Miller, Geoffrey
 
Miller, Harley
 
See also
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
 
Miller, T. Christian
 
Minuteman Project Civil Defense Corps
 
Mission accomplished statement
 
Modern Marine Expo
 
Moffitt, Ronni Karpen
 
Mogadishu, Somalia
 
Moonen, Andrew
 
Moore, Demi
 
Moral media
 
Morton, Joe
 
Mosques
 
Mosul, Iraq
 
Moussaoui, Zacarias
 
 
Moyock compound
 
MPRI
 
MSNBC
 
Mueller, Robert
 
Muhammad, Ahmed
 
Mukhabarat
agents
 
Multinational corporations
 
Murphy, Christopher
 
Mushtaq, Laith
 
Myers, Richard
 
 
 
Naem, Assam Hussein Il,
 
Nairn, Allan
 
Najaf battle (April 2004)
 
Nance, Malcolm
 
Nantongo, Mirembe
 
Nantz, Eric
 
NASCAR racer sponsored by Blackwater
 
Nash, Steve
 
National Border Patrol Council
 
National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
 
National Defense Industrial Association
 
National Guard
 
National Intelligence Committee of Iraq
 
National Public Radio (NPR)
 
National Republican Congressional Committee
 
National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA)
 
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
 
NATO operations
 
Natural disasters, domestic deployment
 
Naval Special Operations Unit in Azerbaijan [??]
 
Navy force protection training contract
 
Navy SEALs
 
NBC
 
Neff, Joseph
 
Negroponte, John
 
background
 
and Salvador option
 
Neidrich, Chris
 
Neoconservative movement
 
and Paul Bremer in Iraq
 
supports independent army concept
 
Nepalese Gurkhas
 
Neskowin

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