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Search results for "Fallujah" ...
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The Killing in Haditha
CBS interviewed a Marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, charged with murder in the "killing of 24 Iraqi civilians...on Nov. 19, 2005." CBS "went beyond the interview to explore the context in which the killings took place, the nature of the occupation of Haditha, and the rules of engagement governing the use of deadly force."
Tags: marines; military; Iraq; Haditha; Fallujah; house clearing; deadly force
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Blackwater: Inside America's Private Army
This series focuses on Blackwater USA, one of the most visible players in the private military industry. Tens of thousands of private military soldiers are on the ground in Iraq, armed and engaging in combat, but they are not subject to military justice or chain of command. This situation raises questions about oversight, standards, coordination and accountability. Blackwater's presence in Iraq escalated the war in 2004, when four of its contractors were killed and strung up from a bridge in Fallujah. Now, Blackwater is seeking out new markets, offering itself as an army for hire to police the world's trouble spots.
Tags: war; military; military-industrial complex; army; soldiers; Iraq; contractors; government contracts; diplomacy; federal government; defense; government documents; special forces
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Command Mistake
As a result of this WISH-TV (Indianapolis, IN) report, the United States Marine Corps is now issuing helmets with ballistic padding to all marines. Previously, only the Army was issuing padded helmets; and some marines were buying their own padding. The story showed that college football players' helmets were more protective than the marine helmet."The cost to care for a head-injured soldier with permanent brain damage is $2.5 to $3 million. The cost of the helmet pads is as little as $30." Story contains on-ground elements filmed in Germany and Iraq.
Tags: Traumatic brain injury research; TBI; concussion; ballistic pad testing; football helmet testing; Kevlar helmet; roadside bomb blasts; Commanding General George Casey; Baghdad; Fallujah; Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany; Riddell; Brigadier General John Kelley; Congressman Steve Buyer; Indiana National Guard; Roudebush VA Medical Center; craniectomy; aphasia; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Joint Theater Trauma Registry; Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center; DVBIC; Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital; Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone; Susan Okie, MD; New England Journal of Medicine; American Football Coaches Association; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program
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The Bridge
This seven-day series and the follow-ups shed light on the world of private military contractors. The series chronicles the events leading up to the ambush of four private military contractors in Fallujah who were working for a North Carolina company. The investigation exposes the problems private military contractors create for the military, the cost to taxpayers and their lack of public accountability. They derive their revenue from tax dollars yet exist in a kind of "legal netherworld" between civil and military law.
Tags: private military contractors; Fallujah; Iraq; war; Blackwater