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49 Ibid.

50 Kathy Scruggs, “Class Is In for SWAT Teams; North Carolina Facility Provides Realistic Setting to Train Officers for the Latest Type of Domestic Terrorism,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 24, 1999.

51 Jon Frank, “Training Program Simulates a School Under Assault; Blackwater Lodge in Moyock Is Run by Former SEALs,” Virginian-Pilot, September 23, 1999.

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid.

54 Interview, July 2006.

55 Kathy Scruggs, “Class Is In for SWAT Teams,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 24, 1999.

56 Jon Frank, “Training Program Simulates a School Under Assault,” Virginian-Pilot, September 23, 1999.

57 September 19, 2006 e-mail from General Services Administration spokesman Jon Anderson.

58 www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS07F0149K/GS07F0149K_online.htm; www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/ContractorInfo?contractNumber=GS-07F-0149K&contractorName=BLACKWATER+LODGE+AND+TRAINING+CE&executeQuery=YES; accessed November 14, 2006.

59 Interview, August 2006.

60 Department of Defense records.

61 Federal Election Commission records.

62 September 19, 2006 e-mail.

63 Ibid.

64 Ibid.

65 Interview, July 2006.

66 Ibid.

67 FedBizOps Web site, www.fbo.gov/servlet/Documents/R/450249, accessed July 25, 2006.

68 Adm. Vern Clark testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, May 3, 2001.

69 1998 Department of the Navy Posture Statement, chapter 7: “Efficiency: Exploiting the Revolution in Business Affairs.”

70 Ibid.

71 Barry Yeoman, “Soldiers of Good Fortune,” Mother Jones, May/June 2003.

72 Bill Sizemore and Joanne Kimberlin, “Profitable Patriotism,” Virginian-Pilot , July 24, 2006.

73 Chris Taylor speech at George Washington University Law School, January 28, 2005.

74 “Defense Contracts,” Defense Daily , September 18, 2002.

75 Ibid.

76 Matthew Dolan, “Tough Duty: The Terror Watch; Protecting Their Own,” Virginian-Pilot, December 15, 2002.

77 Erik Prince on The O’Reilly Factor, September 27, 2001.

78 Federal Procurement Data System records.

79 Ibid.

80 Regent University Web site, www.regent.edu, accessed November 17, 2006.

81 Interview, August 2006.

82 Ibid.

83 Author copy, Delaware Department of State corporation records.

84 Interviews, August 2006; Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, Crown, New York, 2006, pp. 36-41.

85 Ibid.

86 “Former Alex.Brown Exec Becomes CIA’s No. 3 Man,” Associated Press, March 16, 2001.

87 Anita Raghavan, “Bankers Trust’s Vice Chairman Resigns to Become Counselor to CIA Director,” Wall Street Journal , January 21, 1998.

88 Evan Thomas, “A James Bond Wanna-be? Buzzy Krongard Plans to Shake Up the Troubled CIA,” Newsweek , May 28, 2001.

89 Ibid.

90 Ibid.

91 Ibid.

92 Chris Blackhurst, “Mystery of terror ‘insider dealers,’” Independent on Sunday (UK), October 14, 2001.

93 Evan Thomas, “A James Bond Wanna-be? Buzzy Krongard Plans to Shake Up the Troubled CIA,” Newsweek, May 28, 2001.

94 David Ignatius, “The CIA as Venture Capitalist,” Washington Post , September 29, 1999.

95 “It’s Not Going to Be Pretty, CIA Says,” (Hobart) Mercury , October 20, 2001.

96 Tony Allen-Mills, “Let Bin Laden Stay Free, Says CIA Man,” Sunday Times (UK), January 9, 2005.

97 Ibid.

98 Pelton, Licensed to Kill , p. 37.

99 Interview, August 2006.

100 Ibid.

101 Interviews, August 2006; Pelton, Licensed to Kill , pp. 36-41.

102 Interview, August 2006.

103 Interviews, August 2006. Pelton, Licensed to Kill , pp. 36-37.

104 Interview, August 2006.

105 Ibid.

106 Ibid.

107 Pelton, Licensed to Kill , p. 38.

108 Ibid., pp. 36-41.

109 Ibid., pp. 38-41.

110 Ibid.

111 Ken Silverstein, “Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA,” Harper’s Magazine online, September 12, 2006.

112 Ibid.

113 Interview, August 2006.

114 Barry Yeoman, “Soldiers of Good Fortune,” Mother Jones, May/June 2003.

1 Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2005, p. 283.

2 Alfonso Rojo, “The Gulf War: Death Comes to a Town Almost Forgotten by War—Eyewitness,” Guardian (London), February 18, 1991.

3 Ibid.

4 David Fairhall, Kathy Evans, and Richard Norton-Taylor, “RAF Admits Bomb Hit Civilian Area—‘50 Die’ as Laser Aimer Fails,” Guardian (London), February 18, 1991.

5 David White, “Britain Admits Bomb Missed Target and Hit Town,” Financial Times (London), February 18, 1991.

6 Finlay Marshall, “RAF Regrets Civilian Deaths In Fallouja,” The Press Association Limited, February 18, 1991.

7 Ibid.

8 “Pentagon Top Brass ‘Admit Bomb Error,’” Courier-Mail (Queensland, Australia), February 18, 1991.

9 This is based on the author’s time spent in Fallujah in 2002.

10 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.

11 Interview, November 2006.

12 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.

13 Charles J. Hanley, “U.S. Troops, Conservative Religion a Fiery Combination in Heartland Town,” Associated Press, May 1, 2003.

14 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.

15 Charles J. Hanley, “U.S. Troops, Conservative Religion a Fiery Combination in Heartland Town,” Associated Press, May 1, 2003.

16 Ibid.

17 Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near , p. 233.

18 Charles J. Hanley, “U.S. Troops, Conservative Religion a Fiery Combination in Heartland Town,” Associated Press, May 1, 2003.

19 Larry Kaplow, “U.S. Claims Defense in Killing 13, Iraqis Said Just Protesting,” Cox News Service, April 29, 2003. Also: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.

20 Ellen Knickmeyer, “U.S. Soldiers Fire on Iraqi Protesters After Reportedly Taking Fire; Hospital Chief Says 13 Iraqis Are Dead,” Associated Press, April 29, 2003.

21 Ellen Knickmeyer, “U.S. Soldiers Fire on Iraqi Protesters After Reportedly Taking Fire; Hospital Chief Says 13 Iraqis Are Dead,” Associated Press, April 29, 2003.

22 Among others: “US Troops Shoot Dead Three Iraqi Demonstrators,” Xinhua News Agency (China), April 30, 2003.

23 Mohamed Hasni, “US Troops Shoot Dead 13 Iraqis at Anti-American Protest,” Agence France-Presse, April 29, 2003.

24 Ellen Knickmeyer, “U.S. Soldiers Fire on Iraqi Protesters After Reportedly Taking Fire; Hospital Chief Says 13 Iraqis Are Dead,” Associated Press, April 29, 2003.

25 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.

26 Human Rights Watch Report, “Violent Response: The U.S. Army in Al-Falluja,” June 2003.

27 These claims were very widespread and represented in virtually all on-the-ground media reports from Fallujah on the incident.

28 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Troops Kill Anti-U.S. Protesters; Accounts Differ; 13 Dead, Many Hurt, Iraqis Say,” Washington Post , April 30, 2003.