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Neuhaus, Richard
 
Nevaer, Louis E. V.
 
New Orleans hurricane operations
 
New Paradigm
 
“New Risks in International Business” paper (Bremer)
 
Nicaragua
 
Nickles, Don
 
Nigeria
 
Night Draws Near
(Shadid)
 
9/11 Commission
 
9/11 conspiracy theories
 
See also
September 11, 2001, attacks
 
Nisour Square shooting
 
descriptions
 
Iraq’s attempts to prosecute Blackwater
 
and victims’ families
 
Nixon, Richard
 
Non-violence International
 
Norcross, Melissa
 
Noriega, Manuel
 
North, Oliver
 
Northern Alliance of Massoud
 
Northrop Grumman
 
Novak, Michael
 
NPR.
See
National Public Radio (NPR)
 
NTOA.
See
National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA)
 
NTSB.
See
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
 
 
 
Oath, constitutional
 
Obama, Barack
 
Obert, Jason
 
See also
Helicopter shoot-down (April 2005)
 
Obert, Jessica
 
Occupation of Iraq by U.S.
 
under Bremer
 
and Fallujah
 
funds unaccounted for
 
reconstruction projects
 
resistance to (
see
Anti-U.S. resistance in Iraq)
 
O’Connor, John Cardinal
 
Oil industry
 
in Azerbaijan
 
BTC pipeline
 
Caspian region project
 
of China in Sudan
 
in Kazakhstan
 
and mercenary army concept
 
multinational corporations
 
privatization in Iraq
 
Olympics 2004 in Greece
 
On Killing
(Grossman)
 
Operation Troop Salute
 
Operation Vigilant Resolve
 
See also
Fallujah siege (April 4, 2004)
 
Order
 
Order of Malta Federal Association
 
O’Reilly, Bill
 
The O’Reilly Factor
TV program
 
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
 
Osorio, Esteban
 
Outsourcing
 
and Blackwater’s private army concept
 
under Cheney
 
of 80,500 Navy FTEs
 
of essential services
 
of soldiers flown in Afghanistan
 
of training of U.S. border agents
 
See also
Privatization of military and government services
 
 
 
Pace, John
 
Pace, Peter
 
Pachachi, Adnan
 
Paglen, Trevor
 
Pakistan
 
Palestine
 
Panama
 
Paratroopers as media event
 
Parenti, Christian
 
“Patterns of Global Terrorism” report (U.S. State Dept.)
 
Patton Boggs
 
Pauken, Kevin
 
Pelosi, Nancy
 
Pelton, Robert Young
 
Pence, Mike
 
Penn, Mark
 
Pentagon
 
and Blackwater 61 crash
 
and Halliburton in Iraq
 
and IG Joseph Schmitz
 
outsourcing questioned
 
and Perle scandal
 
privatization policy
 
recognizes mercenaries as part of Total Force
 
September 11, 2001, attacks on
 
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
 
Pere, Richard
 
Perle, Richard
 
Perry, Richard
 
Personal security detail (PSD).
See
Blackwater Security Consulting; Security contractors
 
Peru
 
Petelicki, Slawomir
 
Peters, Ralph
 
Petraeus, David
 
Philippines, Philippine commandos
 
Phoenix assassination program (Vietnam)
 
Photographs of Fallujah
 
Pike, John
 
Pinal Airpark, Arizona
 
Pinkerton Detective Agency
 
Pinochet, Augusto
 
The Pinochet File
(Kornbluh)
 
“Pipeline to Peril” article (Simpson) in
Chicago Tribune
 
Pizarro Ovalle, Jose Miguel “Mike,”
 
PKK Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan)
 
Plane crash in Afghanistan.
See
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
 
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
 
Poland, Polish commandos
 
Political question doctrine
 
Pombo, Richard
 
Pope Air Force Base
 
Posse Comitatus Act
 
Potter, John
 
Potter, Kathy
 
Poulin, K. C.
 
Powell, Colin
 
Powell, Tom
 
Predator spy drone
 
Presidential Airways
 
See also
Blackwater Aviation;
see
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
 
Price, Jay
 
Priest, Dana
 
Prince, Edgar
 
Prince, Elsa Zwiep (later Broekhuizen)
 
Prince, Erik
 
and Apramoff lobbying scandal
 
background
 
and Blackwater operations, policies
 
and Bush administration
 
on Caspian project
 
and Chuck Colson
 
and CIA
 
on Cofer Black
 
at congressional hearings
 
on Constitutional oath
 
on contractor brigade concept
 
explores new markets
 
and Fallujah ambush
 
on independent army concept
 
and Iraqi victims’ lawyers
 
on Jordan counterterrorism training
 
and Joseph Schmitz
 
on mercenaries in U.S. history
 
on New Orleans operations
 
9/11 statements
 
on Nisour Square shooting
 
and recruitment of Chilean commandos
 
Prince, Joan Nicole
 
Prince, Joanna
 
Prince, Peter
 
Prince Corporation
 
The Prince Group
 
Prison Fellowship
 
Prisoner transport.
See
Renditions of prisoners
 
Private army
 
Private Security Company Association of Iraq
 
Private security forces
 
appointed to guard Bremer
 
deploy into Iraq in thousands
 
and lack of consequences for lethal actions
 
See also
Mercenaries, mercenary industry; Security contractors
 
Privatization of Iraq’s oil industry by Bremer
 
Privatization of military and government services
 
as bipartisan
 
under Cheney
 
expansion of
 
expenditures to U.S. government
 
mercenaries benefit from increases
 
under Rumsfeld
 
See also
Outsourcing; Privatized war
 
Privatized war
 
effects of 9/11 attacks
 
escalation of violence tied to profits
 
and private army concept
 
Rumsfeld Doctrine
 
War Crimes Act prosecution
 
See also
Privatization of military and government services
 
Prohibition of Mercenary Activities Act (South Africa)
 
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
 
Propaganda war
 
See also
Sovereignty handover
 
Prothero, P. Mitchell
 
Psychological warfare
 
Public Citizen
 
Pybus, Sean
 
 
 
Qatar
 
Quadrennial Defense Review
(Pentagon)
 
Quick Reaction Force
 
Quinn, F. Patrick
 
 
 
R U Ready High School training at Moyock
 
Radyuhin, Vladimir
 
Rahman, Hussam Abdul
 
Ramirez Sanchez, Ilich (Carlos the Jackal)
 
Ramos, Daniel
 
Rangers, former
 
Ratner, Michael
 
on Nisour Square shooting
 
on use of paramilitary in natural disasters
 
Raytheon
 
Razzaq, Ali
 

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