Sunday, June 12, 2011

Operation Wheels of Freedom (watch the video)
http://abitabout.com/Operation+Falcon+Freedom

http://www.bigboyrules.com/
Excerpt:
There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq.
They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater Worldwide.


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Click to view videos about Jonathon Cote at 'The Washington Post' site
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They travel in convoys of multicolored pickups fortified with makeshift armor, belt-fed machine guns, frag grenades, and even shoulder-fired missiles. They protect everything from the U.S. ambassador and American generals to shipments of Frappuccino bound for Baghdad’s Green Zone. They kill Iraqis, and Iraqis kill them.
And the only law they recognize is Big Boy Rules.
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter comes a harrowing journey into Iraq’s parallel war. Part Mad Max, part Fight Club, it is a world filled with “private security contractors”—the U.S. government’s sanitized name for tens of thousands of modern mercenaries, or mercs, who roam Iraq with impunity, doing jobs that the overstretched and understaffed military can’t or won’t do.

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Big Boy Rules
America's Mercenaries
Fighting in Iraq

by Steve Fainaru
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ISBN: 9780306817434
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They are men like Jon Coté, a sensitive former U.S. army paratrooper and University of Florida fraternity brother who realizes too late that he made a terrible mistake coming back to Iraq. And Paul Reuben, a friendly security company “medic” who has no formal medical training and lacks sufficient tourniquets and other basic supplies. They are part of America’s “other” army—some patriotic, some desperate, some just out for cash or adventure. And some who disappear into the void that is Iraq and are never seen again.
Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with a group of private security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day. He joined Jon Coté and the men of Crescent Security Group as they made their way through Iraq—armed to the teeth, dodging not only bombs and insurgents but also their own Iraqi colleagues.
Just days after Fainaru left to go home, five men of Crescent Security Group were kidnapped in broad daylight on Iraq’s main highway. How the government and the company responded reveals the dark truths behind the largest private force in the history of American warfare. . . .

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/24/jonathon-cote-rip/
Excerpt:

Jonathon Cote, R.I.P.

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By Michelle Malkin  •  April 24, 2008 08:17 AM
Last month, the bodies of kidnapped American contractors Ronald J. Withrow of Roaring Springs, Tex., and John Roy Young of Kansas City, Mo., were found in Iraq. Yesterday, the family of fellow American contractor Jonathon Cote learned that his body has been identified:
A body recovered by U.S. authorities in Iraq has been identified as that of a kidnapped American security contractor, the FBI said on Wednesday.
The remains were identified as Jonathon Cote of Getzville, New York, who was employed by Crescent Security Group when he was kidnapped on Nov. 16, 2006, the FBI said.
“Mr. Cote’s body was recovered on April 19, 2008, and his family was immediately informed by the FBI of the recovery,” FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement.
“Mr. Cote’s family was notified today of the positive identification of his remains following confirmation of his identity by the FBI.”
Cote was a 25-year-old Army veteran who had served in both Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming a private security contractor.
The Cote family has kept active vigil and worked valiantly to ensure that their loved one and others still missing in Iraq are not forgotten. Their website is here. The family continues to ask for prayers.
“O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.”
PSALM 130 v 2


http://educate-yourself.org/cn/battleofbaghdad27apr06.shtml
Excerpt:
The Battle of Baghdad Cover-Up
By Eric Holmes May <onlythecaptain@yahoo.com>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/battleofbaghdad27apr06.shtml
April 26, 2006
Military background

My name is Eric Holmes May, born 1960. From 1977-1980, I served in the U.S. Chemical Corps in the 1st Cavalry Division, holding ranks from private to sergeant. In 1980, I entered the University of Houston Honors College, and while there received my commission as a second lieutenant (December 15, 1983). I completed my degree in Classics (Latin & Greek) in 1985.

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/3-Feb-2006.html
Excerpt:
The Galveston radio station where the broadcast emanated was unavailable for comment, regarding the strange sequence of events during the 103.7 FM reported by the BP worker.

However, according to Capt. May, the broadcast may have been a signal to others involved in the nuclear attack that it was being aborted.

"We caught them putting out an abort code by using the media. This is how the Illuminati works," said Capt. May, who is convinced the enemy within our government communicates by using a complex Illuminati number system, the most common being combinations of 1, 3, 9.

http://www.dailypaul.com/159868/march-19th-2003-iraq-war-started
Excerpt:

March 19th 2003 Iraq War Started


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Dear Friends of Liberty and Peace!
Today is the 8 year anniversary of the start of the illegal unconstitutional Iraq war.
Demonstrations are taking place all across the country from Santa Barbara CA to Washington DC.
All morning I am thinking: if Ron Paul was president on March 19th 2003 over 1 million people would still be alive today and millions more uninjured.
Leading up to this war I took part in many large demonstrations in several European countries.
I remember the hope we had that somehow we would be able to prevent the slaughter...
Today I want all Daily Paul members and visitors to take some time to have a moment of silence remembering the victims of this war.
Iraq war veteran speaks:
http://www.libertypoet.com/endthewars/veteranspeech/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya
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Military intervention in Libya
Part of 2011 Libyan civil war
Coalition action against Libya.svg
The no-fly zone over Libya as well as bases and warships which are involved in the intervention
Date19 March 2011–ongoing
LocationLibya
StatusOngoing (precision airstrikes, no-fly zone and naval blockade)
Belligerents
States enforcing UN SC Resolution 1973:

 NATO
 Jordan
 Qatar
 Sweden
 United Arab Emirates
 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:
Commanders and leaders
NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Canada Charles Bouchard
France Nicolas Sarkozy
France Édouard Guillaud
Italy Rinaldo Veri
United Kingdom David Cameron
United Kingdom Sir Stuart Peach
United States Barack H. Obama
United States Carter Ham
United States Sam Locklear
Norway Harald Sunde (general)
Jordan Abdullah II
Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Sweden Sverker Göranson
United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Libya Muammar Gaddafi
Libya Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Libya Khamis al-Gaddafi
Libya Al-Saadi al-Gaddafi
Libya Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr
Casualties and losses
United States 1 USAF F-15E Strike Eagle crashed (both pilots survived)[4]
United Arab Emirates 1 UAEAF F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed upon landing[5]
220 tanks and armored personnel carriers destroyed or damaged, 200 ammunition facilities and 70 surface-to-air missile systems hit, various aircraft destroyed or damaged, unknown number of soldiers killed or wounded (NATO claim by 29 April)[6]
718 civilians killed and 4067 wounded (Libyan health ministry claims by May 26)*[7]
40 civilians killed (in Tripoli; Vatican claim)[8]
*Libyan health ministry claim has not been independently confirmed.[9] The U.S. military claims it has no knowledge of civilian casualties.[10]

On 19 March 2011 a multi-state coalition began a military intervention in Libya to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which was taken in response to events during the 2011 Libyan civil war.[11] On 19 March, military operations began, with US and British forces firing over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles,[12] the French Air Force and British Royal Air Force[13] undertaking sorties across Libya and a naval blockade by the Royal Navy.[14] Air strikes against Libyan Army tanks and vehicles by French jets have since been confirmed.[15][16] The official names for the interventions by the coalition members are Opération Harmattan by France; Operation Ellamy by the United Kingdom; Operation Mobile for the Canadian participation and Operation Odyssey Dawn for the United States.[17]

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