63 Michael Georgy, “Iraqis Drag Bodies Through Streets After Attack,” Reuters, March 31, 2004.
CHAPTER 8
1 Bing West, No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, Bantam Dell, New York, 2005, p. 58.
2 Transcript, “Deputy Director for Coalition Operations Hosts News Conference on Security Operations in Iraq,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, March 31, 2004.
3 Tom Raum, “Stakes for U.S. Much Higher in Iraq Than They Were in Somalia,” Associated Press, April 1, 2004.
4 Transcript, “Deputy Director for Coalition Operations Hosts News Conference on Security Operations in Iraq,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, March 31, 2004.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Transcript, “Remarks by the President at Bush-Cheney 2004 Dinner Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, D.C.,” White House News Release, March 31, 2004.
10 L. Paul Bremer III, My Year in Iraq, p. 317.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Tom Raum, “Stakes for U.S. Much Higher in Iraq Than They Were in Somalia,” Associated Press, April 1, 2004.
14 David Stout, “White House, With Support, Vows to Finish Mission in Iraq, New York Times, April 1, 2004.
15 Ibid.
16 Transcript, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Network, March 31, 2004.
17 Ibid.
18 Transcript, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Network, April 1, 2004.
19 Ibid.
20 Transcript, Scarborough Country, MSNBC, March 31, 2004.
21 Claude Salhani, “Analysis: Mogadishu Revisited?” UPI, March 31, 2004.
22 Paul McGeough, “Shocked Iraqis Wait for US Retribution,” Sydney Morning Herald, April 3, 2004.
23 Transcript, “Deputy Director for Coalition Operations Hosts News Conference on Security Operations in Iraq,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, March 31, 2004.
24 Transcript, CNN Crossfire, CNN, April 1, 2004.
25 Transcript, “Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing With Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, April 1, 2004.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Transcript, “Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing With Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, April 12, 2004.
29 Jeffrey Gettleman, “4 From U.S. Killed in Ambush in Iraq; Mob Drags Bodies,” New York Times, April 1, 2004.
30 Transcript, Larry King Live, CNN, April 1, 2004.
31 Anne Barnard and Thanassis Cambanis, “Brutality, Cheers in Iraq: Mob Drags Burned Bodies of Four Slain American Civilians Through Streets,” Boston Globe, April 1, 2004.
32 Paul McGeough, “Shocked Iraqis Wait for US Retribution,” Sydney Morning Herald, April 3, 2004.
33 Ibid.
34 Sewell Chan, “Descent Into Carnage in a Hostile City; In Fallujah, Mob Unleashes Its Rage,” Washington Post, April 1, 2004.
35 Kevin Johnson, “Fallujah Leaders Set Defiant Tone,” USA Today, April 5, 2004.
36 Ibid.
37 Jack Fairweather, “American Dead Butchered ‘Like Sheep,’” The Telegraph (London), April 1, 2004.
38 Transcript, White House Press Briefing, March 31, 2004.
39 Transcript, “Interview With Maybritt Illner of Zdf German Television,” FDCH Federal Department and Agency Documents, April 1, 2004.
40 Transcript, “Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing With Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt,” Department of Defense Press Briefing, April 1, 2004.
41 Transcript, CNN Live Today, CNN, April 1, 2004.
42 Joanne Kimberlin, “Three Slain Blackwater Workers Identified,” Virginian-Pilot, April 2, 2004.
43 Jonathan E. Kaplan, “Private Army Seeking Political Advice in D.C.,” The Hill, April 14, 2004.
44 Gerry J. Gilmore, “U.S. Firm Mourns Slain Employees,” American Forces Press Service, April 2, 2004.
45 Ibid.
46 Ben Deck, “N.C. Sheriff: Some Blackwater Workers Ex-Law Enforcement Officers,” Cox News Service, March 31, 2004.
47 Transcript, “Hearing of the Emerging Threats & Capabilities Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee,” Federal News Service, April 2, 2004.
48 D. R. Staton, “Chaplain Corner 04/05/04,” Blackwater Tactical Weekly, April 5, 2004.
49 Sonja Barisic, “Deaths of North Carolina Company’s Employees in Iraq Hit Stir Hometown,” Associated Press, April 1, 2004.
50 Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, p. 332.
51 Alissa J. Rubin and Doyle McManus, “Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2004.
52 Ibid.
53 Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, p. 332
54 Alissa J. Rubin and Doyle McManus, “Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2004.
55 Jim Steele’s “Premiere Speakers Bureau” bio.
56 Jon Lee Anderson, “Letter From Baghdad: The Uprising,” The New Yorker, May 3, 2004.
57 Jim Steele’s “Premiere Speakers Bureau” bio. Steele, of course, does not refer to them as “death squads” but rather a “counter-terrorist force.”
58 Jon Lee Anderson, “Letter From Baghdad: The Uprising,” The New Yorker, May 3, 2004.
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid.
61 Peter Maass, “The Salvadorization of Iraq?” The New York Times Magazine, May 1, 2005.
62 Ibid.
63 Jim Steele’s “Premiere Speakers Bureau” bio.
64 Jon Lee Anderson, “Letter From Baghdad: The Uprising,” The New Yorker, May 3, 2004.
CHAPTER 9
1 David Barstow, James Glanz, Richard A. Oppel Jr., and Kate Zernike, “Security Companies: Shadow Soldiers in Iraq,” New York Times, April 19, 2004.
2 One of the best and most comprehensive and credible histories of Muqtada al-Sadr can be found in Anthony Shadid’s book Night Draws Near.
3 Robert Fisk, “Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy,” The Independent (London), April 6, 2004.
4 This would later be official policy with the implementation of Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17, June 27, 2004.
5 Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Young Radical’s Anti-U.S. Wrath Is Unleashed,” New York Times, April 5, 2004.
6 Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid, “U.S. Targeted Fiery Cleric in Risky Move; As Support for Sadr Surged, Shiites Rallied for Fallujah,” Washington Post, April 11, 2004.
7 Jason Burke, Kamal Ahmed, Jonathon Steele, and Ed Helmore, “Ten Days That Took Iraq to the Brink,” The Observer (London), April 11, 2004.
8 Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid, “U.S. Targeted Fiery Cleric in Risky Move; As Support for Sadr Surged, Shiites Rallied for Fallujah,” Washington Post, April 11, 2004.
9 Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Young Radical’s Anti-U.S. Wrath Is Unleashed,” New York Times, April 5, 2004.
10 Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid, “U.S. Targeted Fiery Cleric in Risky Move; As Support for Sadr Surged, Shiites Rallied for Fallujah,” Washington Post, April 11, 2004.
11 Jeffrey Gettleman, “U.S. Accepts Responsibility, But Not Blame, in Deaths of 2 Iraqi Journalists,” New York Times, March 30, 2004.