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Brzezinski, Zbigniew
 
BTC oil pipeline
 
Buchanan, Pat
 
Buckham, Ed
 
Bulgarian flight crew
 
Burdzhanadze, Nino
 
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
 
Burke, Susan
 
Burke O’Neil LLC,
 
Burnett, Mark
 
Burns, John
 
Burns, Nicholas
 
Burson-Marsteller
 
Bush, Ed
 
Bush, George H. W.
 
Bush, George W.
 
and Al Jazeera
 
and Blackwater
 
Boykin on
 
calls for increase in active duty troops
 
and Caspian region project
 
and Cofer Black
 
creates Terrorist Threat Integration Center
 
declares mission accomplished
 
eases sanctions on southern Sudan
 
and ECT manifesto
 
and Fallujah ambush (2004)
 
and IG Joseph Schmitz
 
and militarization of Bureau of Diplomatic Security
 
and Nisour Square
 
and Posse Comitatus Act
 
and privatization of government services
 
repeals Davis-Bacon Act
 
Bush, Jeb
 
Bush, Laura
 
Byrne, Brennan
 
Byrnes, Edwin R.
 
 
 
C&M Capitol Link
 
CACI
 
Callahan, Daniel
 
Callahan, Robert J.
 
Callahan & Blaine
 
Callahan convoy.
See
Hay Nazzal Street massacre
 
Calvin College
 
Calvinism
 
Cambone, Stephen
 
Camden County, NC
See also
Moyock compound
 
Camp Fallujah Marine base
 
Camp Golf.
See
Najaf battle (April 2004)
 
Camp Ridgeway
 
Campbell, Todd
 
Canales, Benjamin
 
Cannistraro, Vincent
 
Capeheart, Kelly
 
Card, Andy
 
Carey, Lance
 
See also
Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
 
Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez)
 
Carlson, Tucker
 
Carter, Randall
 
Caspian Pipeline Consortium
 
Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project
 
BTC pipeline
 
significance for conflicts with Iran
 
Casteel, Steve
 
Castro, Fidel
 
Catholic Answers
 
Catholicism
 
CBS
 
CCR.
See
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
 
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
 
lawsuit filed for victims of Watahba Square killings
 
Nisour Square shooting victims’ lawsuit
 
Center for Security Policy
 
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
See
CIA
 
Chalabi, Ahmad
 
Cheney, Dick
 
and Azerbaijan
 
and Halliburton
 
military privatization, outsourcing
 
on New Paradigm
 
and Project for a New American Century
 
Cherkasky, Michael
 
Chevron
 
Cheyre, Luis Emilio
 
Childrey, Tim
 
Chile, Chilean commandos
 
training in Honduras
 
working for Blackwater
 
working for Triple Canopy
 
“Chilean Executions” briefing paper for Kissinger
 
China
 
China National Petroleum Corporation
 
Christian conservative movement
 
and Catholic conservatives
 
and expanding role of Blackwater
 
and Schmitz
 
and Sudan crisis
 
Christian Fatherhood
(Wood)
 
Christian Freedom International (CFI)
 
Christian-supremacists
 
Christmas Eve killing of Iraqi bodyguard
 
Chrysler, Dick
 
Church Committee
 
CIA
 
Blackwater Security Consulting contract
 
and Buzzy Krongard
 
in Chile
 
and clandestine aviation
 
and Cofer Black
 
ex-agents working for Blackwater
 
Phoenix assassination program (Vietnam)
 
rendition program
 
See also
Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA
 
City of mosques.
See
Fallujah, Iraq
 
Civilian contractors
 
See also
Contractors in Iraq; Security contractors
 
Civilian Reserve Corps, U.S.
 
Clark, Al
 
on founding of Blackwater
 
on training standards
 
Clark, Vern
 
Clark, Wesley
 
Clarke, Richard
 
Clarridge, Duane
 
Clinton, Bill
 
Caspian region oil
 
and CIA rendition program
 
privatizes government, military
 
restricts Lethal Findings
 
Clinton, Hillary
 
Cloonan, Jack
 
CNN
 
CNP.
See
Council for National Policy (CNP)
 
Coalition of the willing
 
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
 
Fallujah ambush report
 
headquarters as Najaf battle site
 
raids Sadr’s newspaper
 
and Shaw scandal
 
Coast Guard, U.S.
 
Coburn, Tom
 
Coca-Cola
 
Cockburn, Patrick
 
Code of conduct (IPOA)
 
Cohen, Ariel
 
Cole, Bruce
 
Coll, Steve
 
Collateral Investigations Board, U.S. Army
 
Collective punishment concept
 
Colombia
 
contracting of forces
 
Colson, Chuck
 
Columbine High School shootings
 
Combat Missions
TV program
 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Congress
 
Community Impact Committees (CICs)
 
Compass, Eddie
 
Compass Group
 
Comstock, Barbara
 
Congo
 
Congressional hearings/investigations
 
on contractors in Iraq
 
on Fallujah ambush
 
on Nisour Square shooting
 
on outsourcing training of U.S. border agents
 
See also
Waxman, Henry
 
ConocoPhilips
 
Conservatives.
See
Christian conservative movement; Neoconservative movement
 
Contract fraud
 
Contract with America
 
Contractor brigade
See also
Private army
 
Contractors, security.
See
Security contractors
 
Contractors in Iraq
 
ineffectively monitored
 
killed, abducted, targeted
 
See also
Security contractors
 
Contractors on the Battlefield conference
 
Contracts, security.
See
Security contractors
 
Contreris, Adres
 
Control Risks Group
 
Convoys
 
unarmored vehicles
 
Conway, James T.
 
Corporate Warriors
(Singer)
 
Cost plus contracts
 
Costs of Blackwater operatives vs. soldiers
 
Council for National Policy (CNP)
 
Counterinsurgency
 
Negroponte’s Salvador option
 
Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA
 
Court martial system.
See
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
 
CPA.
See
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
 
Crenshaw, William
 
Critical Intervention Services
 
Crocker, Ryan
 
Crossfire
TV program
 
CTC.
See
Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), CIA
 
Cubic
 
Cummings, Elijah
 
Currituck County, NC
 
Custer Battles
 
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)
 
 
 
Dalrymple, David P.
 
The Danger Zone
radio program
 
Darfur Region, Sudan
 
Blackwater’s campaign to deploy
 
See also
Sudan
 
“Darfur Solution: Send in the Mercenaries” (Boot) in
Los Angeles
Times

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