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Foreign mercenaries
     
    IPOA. See International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)
     
    Iran
     
    and Caspian oil project
     
    Iran-Contra
     
    Iraq
     
    under Bremer
     
    civil war
     
    elections in
     
    government investigates Blackwater shootings
     
    government investigates Nisour Square shooting
     
    government’s lack of sovereignty
     
    human trafficking allegations
     
    military disbanded
     
    monetary (privatized) costs of war
     
    occupation of ( see Occupation of Iraq by U.S.)
     
    Sadr’s ascent
     
    schoolteachers, doctors, nurses fired
     
    Iraq National Museum
     
    Iraqi Civil Defense Corps
     
    Iraqi Governing Council
     
    Iraqi military
     
    disbanded by Bremer
     
    joins anti-U.S. resistance
     
    in Operation Vigilant Resolve
     
    training of new army
     
    Iraqi militias
     
    and civil war
     
    of Sadr
     
    and Salvador option
     
    Iraqi police
     
    Irish Rangers
     
    Islam, Muslims
     
    Islamic Army in Iraq
     
    Israel
     
    Israeli mercenaries
     
    Issa, Darrell
     
    Issawi, Taher al-
     
    Izurieta, Ricardo
     
    Izzi, Saad al-
     

 
     
    Jackson, Gary
     
    on aviation services
     
    on Blackwater’s clandestine operations
     
    on Blackwater’s expansion
     
    on Cofer Black
     
    on foreign commandos
     
    on helicopter shoot-down
     
    on New Orleans operations
     
    on U.S. border agents
     
    Jacobson, Jim
     
    Jadacki, Matt
     
    Jamail, Dahr
     
    Jamaili, Khaled
     
    Janjaweed militia (Darfur, Sudan)
     
    Jennings, Peter
     
    Johnson, T. V.
     
    Johnson Controls
     
    Johnston County, NC
     
    Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), smart bomb
     
    Jones, Karen
     
    Jones, Walter, Jr.
     
    Jordan
     
    Journalists
     
    Al Jazeera
     
    embedded, unembedded
     
    Justice Department, U.S.
     

 
     
    K Street Project
     
    Kabul Station
     
    Kaifesh, Larry
     
    Kamal, Hussein
     
    Karim, Ahmed
     
    Karimov, Islam
     
    Karzai, Hamid
     
    Kazakhstan
     
    See also Caspian Sea region, Caspian Guard project
     
    KBR (Kellogg, Brown, and Root)
     
    and Blackwater subcontract
     
    and Fallujah ambush
     
    and human trafficking allegations
     
    New Orleans hurricane contract
     
    See also Brown and Root (later KBR)
     
    Keating, Karl
     
    Kelly, Kathy
     
    Kennedy, Edward
     
    Kennedy, Patrick
     
    Kenya, U.S. embassy bombing
     
    Kerry, John
     
    Khalaf, Ali Salman
     
    Khalif, Raheem
     
    Khartoum, Sudan
     
    Kidnappings, disappearances
     
    of foreign contractors
     
    Kimmitt, Mark
     
    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,