• The 2004 Fallujah Blackwater incident occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the...
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  • March 31, 2004, Iraqi insurgents ambushed a convoy assigned to protect food caterers ESS who were supplying US military bases near Fallujah. Four armed...
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  • for months at a time. On March 31, 2004, four Blackwater security contractors were killed in an ambush in Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad, while protecting...
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    kill insurgent elements who were considered responsible for the 2004 Fallujah ambush, which resulted in the deaths of four private military contractors...
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  • Scott Helvenston (category 2004 deaths)
    2004) was a United States Navy SEAL. He was working as a security contractor for Blackwater Security when he was killed in the 31 March 2004 Fallujah...
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    the deaths of 5 Bravo Company soldiers. On 31 March 2004, Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah ambushed a convoy containing four American private military contractors...
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  • Blackwater Security (since renamed Academi) killed in the 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush. The families of the four men, led by Scott Helvenston's mother Katy...
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    Fallujah (Arabic: ٱلْفَلُّوجَة al-Fallūjah [el.fɐl.ˈluː.dʒɐ]) is a city in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq. Situated on the Euphrates River, it is located roughly...
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  • and its overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan. He argues that the 2004 Fallujah ambush ultimately increased Blackwater's business portfolio. He describes...
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    the streets before they were hung on a bridge. (See also: 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush, Operation Vigilant Resolve) On March 28, 2005, 16 American contractors...
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    March 31: 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush: Four Blackwater contractors ambushed and killed in Fallujah, causing a First Battle of Fallujah. April 4: Beginning...
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    coalition forces and Blackwater mercenaries, as in the 2004 Fallujah ambush and 2004 Good Friday ambush. The Quds Force also helped in the creation and arming...
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    coalition forces and Blackwater mercenaries, as in the 2004 Fallujah ambush and 2004 Good Friday ambush. 2006 In July and August, Soleimani was part of the...
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    a prominent al-Qaeda terrorist who was the mastermind behind the 2004 Fallujah ambush. Al-Isawai made accusations of mistreatment while in custody, and...
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    The United States bombardment of Fallujah began in April 2003, one month after the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003 United States forces...
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  • rights in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq Hamdania incident Haditha massacre 2004 Fallujah ambush John E. Hatley Kandahar massacre United States war crimes "Soldier:...
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    War's worst war crime cases more than ten years later. Iraq portal 2004 Fallujah ambush Battle of Haditha Human rights in post-invasion Iraq Ilario Pantano...
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    March 31, 2004. Five days before American troops withdrew from Fallujah after intense fighting on March 26, 2004 (at which point Fallujah had already...
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    he rescued two U.S. Marines during an enemy ambush during the Second Battle of Fallujah, in November 2004. He is the fifteenth U.S. Marine to receive...
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  • their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time, including the 2004 Fallujah ambush and 2007 Nisour Square massacre. The company and its head, Erik Prince...
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    the city when the attack on Fallujah began. By November 8, 2004, insurgents were conducting coordinated attacks and ambushes in an attempt to take over...
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  • in an ambush in Fallujah. They were working as private contractors. January 14, 2004 – Two Americans, names unknown, were killed in an ambush near Tikrit...
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    Battle of Ramadi was fought in the spring of 2004, during the same time as the First Battle of Fallujah, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate...
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    company took part in Operation Phantom Fury, the second assault on Fallujah in November 2004. Of the 158 Marines he commanded, 3 were killed in action and...
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    ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20034066. "'Fallujah Brigade' to Disband, Join Resistance in Control of City". Archived from the original on 2004-12-13. Retrieved 2005-11-14...
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    Anbar campaign (2003–2011) (category 2004 in Iraq)
    2003 when 17 Iraqis were killed in Fallujah by U.S. soldiers during an anti-American demonstration. In early 2004 the U.S. Army relinquished command of...
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  • 2004 was most notably marked by a series of battles in Fallujah. See Fallujah during the Iraq War. January 14: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside...
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  • Blackwater USA are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed in Fallujah, Iraq. April 2 – Walt Disney Pictures' 45th feature film, Home on...
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  • house to house and ambush to ambush for seven straight months." In his review for Leatherneck, Robert B. Loring notes: "In early 2004, the Marines of “Golf”...
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