Three secret domestic CIA bases with ties to 9/11 by Wayne Madsen

Three secret domestic CIA bases with ties to 9/11
Anyone driving from Norfolk, Virginia to North Carolina's Outer Banks would normally not notice that when driving south on Caritoke Highway through the one-horse town of Moyock, North Carolina they would be passing a country road leading to one of the largest "private" paramilitary training centers in the world. If one were to take a right turn on Moyock's Pudding Ridge Road, after a few miles they would come up on the gate of the Academi "Elite Training and Trusted Protection" facility. Formerly known as Blackwater and Xe, Academi is nothing more than a privatized arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, which provided the company, throughout all of its incarnations, with sweetheart and lucrative contracts to engage in operations that the CIA wanted to keep free of its fingerprints.

One thing that stands out in Moyock is the lack of motels and long-term hotels that are commonplace around other military installations. Academi claims it trains U.S. and foreign security personnel at its Moyock facility but the lack of off-facility accommodations indicates that trainees are housed, fed, and provided all other creature comforts on the Academi facility. Keeping its trainees as a captive audience ensures that there is not as problem with students hanging around local establishments, getting drunk, and "spilling the beans" about what they are doing inside the Academi facility. In terms of operational security, Academi and its predecessor Blackwater, could ensure that "loose lips did not sink ships," especially during the planning for top secret operations.


Academi facility (formerly Blackwater), in Moyock, North Carolina. Photo by WMR.

Some 36 miles from Moyock -- closer if one were to avail himself or herself of unpaved roads -- sits what is officially known as the Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity. In reality, this base belongs to the CIA and is shrouded in mystery. Local residents of nearby Hertford often complain of loud explosions from the base but local officials, relying on the patriotism card but also keenly aware of the money pumped into the local economy by the CIA, slough off concerns about the explosions as being merely "the sounds of freedom."

 
Highly-secure Harvey Point CIA base. Photo by WMR.

Oddly, Google Earth shows that in the middle of the base sits a commercial airplane fuselage with part of its wings lopped off. Local residents have witnessed the remains of bombed automobiles, including limousines, being removed from the facility on flatbed trucks. Special operations forces including those from Israel, have received unspecified training at the Harvey Point base.
 
Aircraft fuselage with clipped wings at Harvey Point [left].  Commercial aircraft fuselage being towed on to Harvey Point facility by truck [right].
One June 28, 2013, WMR reported on another CIA base, the Pinal Air Park/Marana Airfield outside of Tucson, Arizona. It was this facility that drew the interest of retired Boeing 757 and 767 pilot, Iran-contra CIA contractor pilot, and 9/11 author Phil Marshall. In January 2013, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department concluded, after a botched investigation, that Marshall shot himself to death after having shot and killed his two teen-age children and the family dog. Pinal is the home to America's "boneyard" of retired civilian aircraft, including Boeing passenger aircraft. Nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is the home to the boneyard of retired military aircraft. In addition, the CIA and U.S. Special Forces maintain operations at Pinal, the CIA through its contractor, Evergreen International. A former CIA official who was involved in the CIA's planning of the Iran-contra "arms-for-hostages; Iranian profits for the contras" operation confirmed that Evergreen had a close working relationship with the firm PTech, a firm with connections to the Saudi royal family and Israel's Mossad and which had contracts to provide computer software support to the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, FBI, and the Secret Service from 1997 until 9/11. The firm continues to provide software support for classified U.S. military projects.


A portion of the commercial aircraft "boneyard" co-located with the CIA's Evergreen International facility at the Pinal Air Park in Arizona. The late pilot and author Phil Marshall suspected that the commercial aircraft used on 9/11 had been "drone-enabled." Whatever proof Marshall received from two former Iran-contra CIA colleagues likely cost him his life as well as the lives of his two children.

WMR has learned from a number of sources who are familiar with the operations of Moyock, Harvey Point, and Pinal that the three secret installations played a part in the planning and carrying out of the 9/11 attacks. Pinal provided the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft that were retrofitted to be flown remotely into the World Trade Center's North and South Towers. WMR has not confirmed whether the Boeing 757 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania was remotely-flown but there were no bodies spotted or recovered by the Somerset County coroner after the crash.

  
As with Harvey Point, the CIA operates the Pinal, Arizona facility under Defense Department cover.
WMR has recently been informed of further links between retired U.S. military and intelligence personnel who were associated with the Iran-contra scandal and the planning of 9/11. These include retired Navy, Marine Corps, and Army personnel, some of whom were at the very top echelons of the Reagan administration scandal.

This story is continuing to develop . . .

Blackwater Makes a Killing Out of Killing

Blackwater/XE corporate phone directory yields chain of subsidiary firms

WMR has obtained an internal Blackwater phone directory listing the names, office phones, and cell phone for 419 Blackwater officials and employees worldwide. After consulting with our editorial advisers, WMR has decided not to publish the list in its entirety since many of the Blackwater employees are deployed overseas their personal safety could be placed in jeopardy. While Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, has been responsible for heinous crimes against humanity in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, the publication of names and cell phone numbers would serve no useful purpose except to place them at potential risk and there is no way to separate human rights violators from those who are acting in administrative and support positions who may have been forces to accept employment with the firm as the result of the poor economic situation in the United States. In addition, Blackwater changed its name to Xe Security in February 2009 and many of those on the phone list may no longer be working for the private military firm.

WMR has edited the list to provide non-personally identifiable phone numbers and offices. The Blackwater Main USA offices are located at the firm's Moyock, North Carolina main training facility. Phone numbers are also found for Blackwater's subsidiaries, including Paravant, Blackwater Airships, Greystone Ltd. (Barbados), PMA International, ARES Manufacturing, AIRR International, Raven, and its operating locations in northern Illinois and Blackwater West in California.

Blackwater Worldwide Phone List

BW Main USA Building OPS 2488 435-2488
Front Gate OPS 1996 435-1996 207-5325 (after hours)
Range Control Randy- 1709 Billy- 1326 455-0374 (after hours)
Medical Department 1855 435-1855 RADIO
Mail Room USA Building OPS 2046 435-2046
Chow Hall New Chow Hall OPS 2007 435-2007 384-3545
ProShop Old Lodge/Chow OPS OO23 435-0023
ProShop Hgwy 168 OPS 435-2271
ProShop Manager Old Lodge/Chow OPS 2033 435-2033
Black Bear Inn Lodge OPS 1950 435-1950 202-1210
VBPD Building Moyock 435-6201
Warehouse Logistics 1839 435-1839 384-3422
Prince Group McLean, VA Corporate 571-633-9530
Prince Group fax McLean, VA Corporate 571-633-9535
Paravent USA Building 435-0400
Blackwater North Illinois PUBLIC NUMBER 815-244-2900
Blackwater North NON-PUBLIC NUMBER 815-244-2901
Blackwater West California 619-671-0183
ON CALLSCHEDULER DSS 384-3439
TRAVEL ON CALL 384-3303
Blackwater Main Fax USA Mailroom OPS 435-6388
24 VP Fax USA Building OPS 435-1790
Black Bear Inn Fax Lodge OPS 435-1953
OSU Fax USA Building 435-1993
Medical Department Fax Medical Building 435-1791
ProShop Fax Old Lodge/Chow 435-1732
Aviation Main Fax Hanger 435-0800
Aviation OPS Fax Hanger 435-1909
Aviation Maintenance Hanger 435-1910
Aviation Purchasing Hanger 435-1926
Training Fax Range Control Building 435-2051
Driving Fax Track Building 435-0042
Airships Fax Elizabeth City 335-0226
Manufacturing Fax 435-1930
Facilities Fax USA Building 435-1861
Blackwater North Fax Illinois 815-244-2815
Blackwater West Fax California (619) 671-7081
DSS Fax USA Building 435-2539
Training Sales Fax USA Building 435-0043
Warehouse / Brenda Fax Warehouse 435-1942
Procurement USA Building 435-1918
Board Room USA Building 1770 435-1770
Conference Room 142 USA Building 1841 435-1841
Conference Room 168 USA Building 1844 435-1844
Conference Room 229 USA Building 1785 435-1785
Conference Room 230 USA Building 1795 435-1795
Conference Room 250 USA Building 1842 435-1842
International OPS Room (269) USA Building 1858 435-1858
DSS Room USA Building 1783 435-1783
Receptionist/ USA Building OPS 1702 435-1702 252-305-6603
Receptionist/ USA Building OPS 1762 435-1762 *
Receptionist/ Hanger Aviation O701 435-0701 *
Mail Clerk/USA Building OPS 2046 435-2046
Proposal Writer Contracts O231 435-0231 *
Director of Budgeting & Analyst Finance 2053 435-2053 *
Cost Reimbursement Specialist International Training 1806 435-1806 *
Armorer Armory 1814 435-1814 *
V.P of Airships Airships 1850 435-1850 384-3465
PMA Paravant 1777 435-1777 384-3392
Travel Coordinator Travel 1889 435-1889 *
Admin Assistant International Training 1778 435-1778 384-3456
File Clerk / DSS Payroll DSS 1812 435-1812 *
Cost Analyst/ Training Finance O016 435-0016 *
VP Logistics & Procurement Logistics 2000 435-2000 207-3089
General Counsel Legal/HR 1319 435-1319 384-3243
Guard Compliance Officer Training 1774 435-1774 384-3246
Director of Finance Finance 1318 435-1318 384-3561
Deputy Director of WPPS Training DSS/WPPS 1324 435-1324 384-3402
Exec. Assistant Logistics 1840 435-1840 384-3041
Sales Admin Assistant Contracts O223 435-0223 384-3350
Cost Reimbursement Specialist Finance 1834 435-1834 *
ARMORY Armory Supervisor Logistics 1814 435-1814 RADIO
HR Generalist Legal/HR 1836 435-1836 *
Accounts Receivable Finance 1847 435-1847 *
IT Tech IT 1820 435-1820 384-3418
Instructor Training 1902 435-1902 *
Manufacturing Engineer Facilities 1916 435-1916
Exec. Assistant Aviation O739 435-0739 *
Marketing Specialist Business Dev. 1863 435-1863 *
Electrical Supervisor Manufacturing 1341 435-1341 202-2430
Firearms Instructor Supervisor/ Navy PM BW West * 619-671-0183 619-464-4192
Armory Supervisor Logistics 1814 435-1814 *
Executive Vice President OPS 2030 435-2030 548-1058
Training & Fire Arms Inst. Training 1800 435-1800 *
Admin Assistant DDS/WPPS 1727 435-1727 384-3468
Driving Instructor Training 1346 435-1346 *
Range Master II Training 1326 435-1326 455-0374
Navy Instructor Training 2013 435-2013 *
Greystone OPS Manager Greystone 1327 435-1327 548-7302
Program Manager International Training 1328 435-1328 384-3427
Range Master Training 1715 435-1715 RADIO
PM Select 1825 435-1825 384-3397
K-9 Trainer K--9 * * 384-3457
Director of Business Development Manufacturing 1923 435-1923 384-3353
Admin Assistant OSU 1347 435-1347 *
Scheduler DSS 1877 435-1877 *
Inventory Control Clerk Logistics 1330 435-1330 384-3464
BBI Front Desk Clerk Housekeeping/OPS 1950 435-1950 384-3425
Staff Accountant Finance 1764 435-1764 *
Range Maintenance Sup. Facilities * * 599-1000
Controller Finance 1944 435-1944 *
VP of BW West BW West 2038 619-671-9910 455-0039
VP of Paravant Paravant O030 435-0030 384-3282
F&T Instructor Training O205 435-0205 RADIO
VP of Risk Management Legal/HR 1320 435-1320 571-212-6473
Navy Instructor Training 1905 435-1905 RADIO
Program Assistant DSS/WPPS O047 435-0047 384-3307
Director of Graphics Productions Business Dev. 2015 435-2015 384-3441
Financial Analyst Finance 1769 435-1769 *
Accounts Receivable/ Security Finance 2009 435-2009 *
HR Manager Legal/HR 1864 435-1864 *
Travel Manager Travel 2044 435-2044 455-0863
Driver Fleet./OPS * * 384-3374
IT Tech IT O054 435-0054 384-3224
Fleet Manager OPS 1879 435-1879 384-3395
Instructor Training 1823 435-1823 757-651-1911
Deputy Director of OSU OSU O031 435-0031 455-0861
VP Greystone Greystone O051 435-0051 548-0026
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1883 435-1883 757-615-8601
Graphic Designer Business Dev. 1331 435-1331 *
Training Site Manager Training 1851 435-1851 *
Export Clerk Logistics 1964 435-1964 384-3330
BBI Manager Housekeeping/OPS 1713 435-1713 202-1210
Medical Admin Medical 1855 435-1855 *
Program Manager International Training 1736 435-1736 548-7984
Curriculum Developer Training O077 435-0077 *
PMA International Training 1934 435-1934 384-3300
Senior Cost Analyst, WPPS Finance 1719 435-1719 *
Recruiter OSU 1945 435-1945
Admin Pool Legal/HR 1714 435-1714 *
Driving Instructor Training 1899 435-1899 *
Armorer Logistics 1814 435-1814 *
Construction Supervisor Facilities 1339 435-1339 533-0140
Corporate Safety Officer OPS O743 435-0743 548-7473
Corporate Communications Cord. Business Dev. 2010 435-2010 384-3391
Analyst CNTPO O218 435-0218 *
VP of Quality Assurance QA 6993 435-6993 *
Lead Supervising Instructor Training (WPPS) 1903 435-1903 384-3313
Warehouse Manager Logistics O058 435-0058 384-3422
Driving Instructor Training 1335 435-1335 *
Program Director International Training O211 435-0211 384-3452
Project Manager Facilities 1794 435-1794 384-3220
Program Director, CNTPO International OPS 2025 435-2025 599-2863
Instructor Training 1336 435-1336 *
PM (DSS & Select) DSS/WPPS O082 435-0082 *
Director Aviation OPS Greystone O074 435-0074 548-9038
Driving Instructor Training O018 435-0018 *
Sales Coordinator/Military Contracts 2016 435-2016 384-3407
Associate Counsel Legal/HR 1966 435-1966 384-3550
Compliance Officer Legal/HR 1334 435-1334 384-3434
Purchasing Agent Manufacturing 1984 435-1984 *
Payroll Specialist Finance 1891 435-1891 *
Admin Assistant Maritime 1742 435-1742 384-3446
Accounts Receivable, Training Finance 1806 435-1806 *
Navy Instructor Training 1970 435-1970 *
Director BW Tampa BW Tampa 1949 435-1949 384-3294
Clearance Coordinator OSU 1837 435-1837 *
Admin Assistant International Training 1922 435-1922 599-0136
Cost Analyst Finance 1830 435-1830 *
Benefits Administrator Legal/HR 1843 435-1843 *
Accountant Airships 1743 435-1749 *
Buyer Procurement/Logistics O045 435-0045 *
Construction Supervisor Facilities 1723 435-1723 207-6282
Director of Flight OPS, Senior Test Pilot Airships 1943 435-1943 384-3394
Cost Receivable Specialist Finance 1807 435-1807 *
Procurement Specialist Logistics O209 435-0209 384-3257
Travel Coordinator Travel 2031 435-2031 455-0867
Database Admin Logistics 1865 435-1865 *
Travel Coordinator Travel 2047 435-2047 207-6386
HR Director Legal/HR 1871 435-1871 384-3533
Service Writer Fleet./OPS 2049 435-2049 384-3276
Deputy Director BW North BW North 1880 815-244-2900 384-3463
ARES Manufacturing 2012 435-2012 202-344-5562
Recruiter OSU 2023 435-2023 384-3539
Instructor Training 1824 435-1824 *
Navy Lead Instructor BW West * * 619-671-0183
Procurement Specialist Logistics O049 435-0049 *
Company Chaplain OPS 1921 435-1921 384-3609
Instructor Training / K-9 1342 435-1342 *
Fleet Drivers OPS 1878 435-1878 *
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1343 435-1343 384-3280
Office Manager Greystone 1344 435-1344
Director of Domestic Training Training 1345 435-1345 384-3375
VP of Contracting Contracts/OPS O019 435-0019 455-0857
President Damocles Solutions LLC Training O022 435-0022 207-6502
VP of Acquisition & Development OPS 2001 435-2001 202-4559
President OPS O011 435-0011 548-0584
On-Site Doctor Medical 1963 435-1963 384-3354
Driving Program Manager Training O057 435-0057 384-3273
Hazmat Manager Logistics 1746 435-1746 384-3438
Training Coordinator/Scheduler Select 1752 435-1752 384-3399
Navy Instructor Training 1969 435-1969 *
Detailer OSU O033 435-0033 599-0149
Driving Instructor Training 1333 435-1333 *
Assistant Procurement Manager Procurement/Logistics O100 435-0100 384-3252
Director of Legislative Affairs OPS OO96 435-0096 384-3244
Information Systems Security Officer Select 1826 435-1826 384-3503
International Logistics Manager Logistics 1959 435-1959 *
MC Corporate Master Chief OPS 1767 435-1767 384-3431
Vehicle Coordinator Fleet./OPS 1781 435-1781 384-3276
Director of International Training International Training 1348 435-1348 548-0707
Facility Security Officer OSU 1816 435-1816 455-0858
IT Project Manager IT 1349 435-1349 *
Cost & Budget Analyst Greystone O219 435-0219 *
Instructor DSS/WPPS 1758 435-1758 RADIO
Scheduler Select O035 435-0035 384-3384
HVAC Supervisor Facilities 1779 435-1779 RADIO
Technical Trainer Training 1815 435-1815 RADIO
Videographer Business Dev. 1897 435-1897 *
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1336 435-1336 RADIO
PM Training 1753 435-1753 *
AP Clerk Finance 1983 435-1983 *
Contract Manager Greystone 1857 435-1857 *
Navy Program Assistant Manager Training 1353 435-1353 384-3534
VP International Training International Training O107 435-0107 548-0851
AP Supervisor Finance 2036 435-2036 *
Corporate Comm. Coordinator Business Dev. 1775 435-1775 *
Admin. Assistant Training 1876 435-1876 *
Accountant II Finance 1875 435-1875 *
Pro Shop Manager Business Dev. 2033 435-2033 *
Export Compliance Officer Legal/HR 1849 435-1849 384-3368
IC Payroll Finance 1893 435-1893 *
Exec. Assistant OPS 1888 435-1888 384-3538
Facilities & Maint. Director K-9 * 540-687-8242 703-994-1562
Lead Cost Analyst Finance 1917 435-1917 455-0867
Program Manager International OPS 1956 435-1956 384-3381
Facilities Service Coordinator Facilities 1745 435-1745 384-3309
Logistics Administrator DSS/WPPS 1954 435-1954 *
Manager, OFC Training 1747 435-1747 384-3291
VP of Facilities Facilities O012 435-0012 202-2562
Export Compliance Officer Legal/HR 1783 435-1783 384-3461
VP of Training Training O014 435-0014 202-2564
Dog Handler Training/K-9 2042 435-2042 202-4579
Ammo & Explosives Tech Logistics 1873 435-1873 RADIO
Exec. Assistant Airships 1355 435-1355 384-3222
Joanne Harris Senior Cost Analyst Finance 1995 435-1995 *
Director of ATAP OPS International OPS 1751 435-1751 384-3331
PGM CNTPO International OPS 1771 435-1771 384-3678
Accounting Supervisor Finance 1978 435-1978 *
Grounds Supervisor Facilities * * 202-8025
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training O208 435-0208 *
VP of Budgeting & Analyst Finance 1351 435-1351 384-3411
Navy Instructor Training 1971 435-1971 *
Airship Assembly & Maintenance Supervisor Airships 1725 435-1725 384-3260
Program Director Airships 1730 435-1730 384-3415
Director Strategic Initiatives Business Dev. 2037 435-2037 384-3448
Auditor QA O056 435-0056 *
Financial Systems Director Finance O028 435-0028 384-3443
PM Paravant 1886 435-1886 *
Dir.Corporate Comm. for Global Initiatives Business Dev. 1792 435-1792 207-3087
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1332 435-1332 *
Associate Counsel Legal/HR 1972 435-1972 384-3283
Senior Accountant Finance 1977 435-1977 *
Director of Events Business Dev. * * 757-343-4596
Accountant Finance 1784 435-1784 *
International OPS PM International OPS O034 435-0034 384-3414
Scheduler Select 1884 435-1884 384-3242
VP of Export Compliance Legal/HR 1822 435-1822 384-3332
Budget Analyst Finance 1822 435-1822 *
Clearance Coordinator OSU O046 435-0046 *
Assistant Legal Counsel Legal/HR 1868 435-1868 384-3336
Scheduler Select 1322 435-1322 *
Proposal Writer Contracts 1358 435-1358 *
Accountant Finance 1924 435-1324 *
Project Manager Select 2014 435-2014 599-1605
OSU 1735 435-1735 207-6051
Admin Assistant DSS/WPPS 1869 435-1869 *
Curriculum Developer Training 1853 435-1853 *
Payroll Specialist Finance 1818 435-1818 *
Paralegal/Claims Administrator Legal/HR 1743 435-1743 384-3451
Instructor Training 1701 435-1701 RADIO
Warehouse Worker Logistics 1896 435-1896 384-3548
Program Director International Training 1799 435-1799 384-3346
Office Manager DSS/WPPS 1811 435-1811 384-3430
File Clerk OSU 1739 435-1739 *
Corporate Recruiter Legal/HR 1986 435-1986 384-3435
Manager of Financial Reporting Finance 1838 435-1838 *
Recruiter OSU 1882 435-1882
Armorer Logistics 1814 435-1814 RADIO
Fleet Worker Fleet./OPS 1870 435-1870 *
Admin Assistant International Training O232 435-0232
Accounts Payable Finance 1942 435-1942 *
Accounts Receivable Finance 1872 435-1872 *
Title Proposal Manager Contracts O084 435-0084 384-3233
Sub Contract Manager Contracts 1765 435-1765 384-3256
Scheduler DSS/WPPS 1828 435-1828 *
Travel Coordinator Travel 1852 435-1852 *
Procurement Specialist Logistics O065 435-0065 *
Project Manager CNTPO 1908 435-1908 384-3469
Inventory Control Clerk Logistics 1881 435-1881 *
Admin for NSW/NSO AIRR International Training 1960 435-1960 *
Contract Specialist Contracts 2029 435-2029
F&T Instructor Training O201 435-0201 *
Latin American Affairs, Operations and Business Analyst International Training 1965 435-1965 *
Travel Coordinator Travel O090 435-0090 384-3390
VP Marketing & Communications Business Dev. 2008 435-2008 599-1603
Navy PMA Training 1703 435-1703 384-3420
Supervising Lead Instructor DSS/WPPS 1832 435-1832 384-3364
Electrician Facilities * * 202-3056
Installation Manager Manufacturing O026 435-0026 202-8023
Business Analyst Business Dev. 1733 435-1733 384-3304
Aviation Manager Greystone O108 435-0108 384-3419
ProShop Clerk OPS O023 435-0023 *
Detailer Select 1329 435-1329 384-3239
Schedules & Logistics Select 1776 435-1776 384-3542
Training Coordinator/Scheduler Contracts 2056 435-2056 *
Deputy Director International Training 1957 435-1957 548-1733
CNTPO Project Director International Training O222 435-0222
Asst. Director of Risk Management Legal/HR 1364 435-1364 *
Director of Retail Sales Contracts O227 435-0227 384-3266
Export Compliance Officer Legal/HR O203 435-0203 384-3480
Accounts Payable Finance OO39 435-0039 *
Director of Business Development Airships 1705 435-1705 384-3371
Deputy Director Special Security Services Select 1359 435-1359 384-3541
Driving Instructor Training 1898 435-1898 *
VP Business Development Business Dev. 1768 435-1768 384-3513
Instructor Training 1706 435-1706 *
Chief Financial Officer Finance 2034 435-2034 384-3520
Scheduler Select 1854 435-1854 384-3445
Employment Screener OSU O032 435-0032 *
PM of NSW International Training 1763 435-1763 548-7599
Driver Fleet./OPS 2027 435-2027 599-0142
Compliance Officer Training * * 384-3440
Sales Assistant Contracts 1866 435-1866 384-3540
Accounts Receivable Finance 1845 435-1845 *
Logistics Support DSS/WPPS 1985 435-1985 *
Export Compliance Administrator Legal/HR 1793 435-1793 *
Medical PMA/ EMT Medical 2021 435-2021 599-0146 Radio
Accountant Greystone O060 435-0060 *
Logistics Coordinator International Training 1892 435-1892 *
Accountant Greystone 1708 435-1708 *
Detailer OSU 2048 435-2048 455-0860
Dir. Business Development (EMEA) Business Dev. * * *
Travel Coordinator Travel 1712 435-1712 *
Graphic Designer Business Dev. 1835 435-1835 *
Avionics & Electrical Eng. Airships 1728 435-1728 *
Range Master Training 1709 435-1709 455-0374
Director WPPS Programs DSS/WPPS O062 435-0062 384-3223
Director of OSU OSU 1710 435-1710 384-3417
Admin Assistant Legal/HR 1979 435-1979 *
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1356 435-1356 *
Cost Analyst Finance 1750 435-1750 *
Paralegal Legal/HR 1973 435-1973
Contract Specialist Contracts O098 435-0098 599-0143
Director of International OPS International OPS O068 435-0068 455-0869
Procurement Manager Procurement/Logistics O055 435-0055 384-3410
Director of Engineering Airships 1729 435-1729 384-3447
Navy Instructor Training 1967 435-1967 *
Driving Instructor Training 1346 435-1346 *
Navy Program Manager Training O071 435-0071 384-3271
QA Inspector Manufacturing 1939 435-1939 *
Driving Instructor Training 1898 435-1898 *
Armorer Logistics 1814 435-1814 RADIO
PM Fire Arms & Tactics Training 1711 435-1711 384-3423
Building Maintenance Supervisor Facilities * * 455-0871
PGM Specialist Logistics O225 435-0225 384-3112
Range Master Training * * RADIO
Training Coordinator/Scheduler Contracts 2035 435-2035
IT Tech IT 1974 435-1974 384-3335
Instructor Training O109 435-0109 *
Accounts Payable Finance 1787 435-1787 *
Admin Assistant DSS/WPPS O099 435-0099 384-3435
Exec Assistant Training O091 435-0091 384-3328
Contract Specialist Contracts 1813 435-1813 *
Range Master Training 1802 435-1802 RADIO
Director Business Dev. BW Tampa * * 267-6524.
Instructor Training 1760 435-1760 *
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1798 435-1798 RADIO
PGM CNTPO 1946 435-1946
Director of Contracts Contracts 1317 435-1317 384-3401
Accounting Clerk Finance 1958 435-1958 *
Select Payroll & Travel Claims Finance 3077 435-3077 384-3436
Lead Clearance Coordinator OSU 2028 435-2028 *
Admin Assistant International Training O083 435-0083 384-3144
Food and Bev Manager OPS 2007 435-2007 384-3545
Project Administrator International Training * * *
Shop Foreman Fleet./OPS 1878 435-1878 384-3400
PGMA/Role Players DSS/WPPS 1714 435-1714 *
Manager CNTPO International OPS 1716 435-1716 384-3234
Civil Engineer Raven 1941 435-1941 384-3363
Director of WPPS DSS/WPPS 1704 435-1704 384-3570
Deputy Director Airships * * 384-3453
Driver Fleet./OPS * * 384-3263
Director Special Security Services Select 1717 435-1717 384-3241
Cost Analyst Finance 1961 435-1961 *
Title Clerk Fleet./OPS 1782 435-1782 384-3219
Director of OPS OPS 2052 435-2052 455-0638
Director International Training OPS International Training 2020 435-2020 548-7305
Assistant Controller Finance 1338 435-1338 *
Admin Assistant Greystone 1761 435-1761 *
Scheduler DSS/WPPS 1846 435-1846 *
Recruiter OSU 1821 435-1821 *
Supervisor, Targets Manufacturing 1726 435-1726 202-8021
Fire Arms & Tactics Instructor Training 1825 435-1825
Captain Maritime 1862 435-1862 548-0704
Inventory Clerk Airships 1987 435-1987 252-312-9002
Internet Sales rep ProShop 1738 435-1738 *
Instructor Training OO53 435-0053
Ancillary Services Director Facilities O029 435-0029 202-8022
Contract Specialist Contracts 2029 435-2029 *
Procurement Specialist Logistics 1847 435-1847 *
Accountant II Finance OO24 435-002 *
Admin Pool Legal/HR O080 435-0080 384-3015
Iraq Regional Coordinator DSS/WPPS O073 435-0073 384-3225
IT Director IT 2018 435-2018 455-0918
Accountant, DSS Finance 1940 435-1940 *
Electrical Technician Airships 1885 435-1885 384-3352
QA Supervisor Manufacturing 1850 435-1850 *
IC payroll specialist, DSS Finance 1720 435-1720 *
Supervising Lead Instructor Training 1754 435-1754 384-3408
Analyst International OPS 1789 435-1789 384-3450
Lead Auditor QA 1980 435-1980 384-3349
Director of QA QA 2055 435-2055 384-3308
Driving Instructor Training O018 435-0018 *
Sales Coordinator Contracts O075 435-0075 384-3432
Instructor DSS/WPPS 1756 435-1756 *
File Clerk Finance 1901 435-1901 *

Blackwater./Xe cells conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan

WMR has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, has been conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan that are later blamed on the entity called "Pakistani Taliban."

Only recently did the US State Department designate the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, a terrorist group. The group is said by the State Department to be an off-shoot of the Afghan Taliban, which had links to "Al Qaeda" before the 9/11 attacks on the United States. TTP's leader is Hakimullah Mehsud, said to be 30-years old and operating from Pakistan's remote tribal region with an accomplice named Wali Ur Rehman. In essence, this new team of Mehsud and Rehman appears to be the designated replacement for Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri as the new leaders of the so-called "Global Jihad" against the West.

However, it is Xe cells operating in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and other cities and towns that have, according to our source who witnessed the U.S.-led false flag terrorist operations in Pakistan. Bombings of civilians is the favored false flag event for the Xe team and are being carried out under the orders of the CIA.

However, the source is now under threat from the FBI and CIA for revealing the nature of the false flag operations in Pakistan. If the source does not agree to cooperate with the CIA and FBI, with an offer of a salary, the threat of false criminal charges being brought for aiding and abetting terrorism looms over the source.

The Blackwater/Xe involvement in terrorist attacks in Pakistan have been confirmed by the former head of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), General Hamid Gul, according to another source familiar with the current Xe covert operations. In addition, Pakistani ex-Army Chief of Staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg, reportedly claimed that while serving as president, General Pervez Musharraf approved Blackwater carrying out terrorist operations in Pakistan. Blackwater has been accused of smuggling weapons and munitions into Pakistan.

Earlier this year WMR reported that "intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out 'false flag' terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel . . . A number of terrorist bombings in Pakistan have been blamed by Pakistani Islamic leaders on Blackwater, Mossad, and RAW. Blackwater has been accused of hiring young Pakistanis in Peshawar to carry out false flag bombings that are later blamed on the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. One such bombing took place during the Ashura procession in Karachi last month. The terrorist attacks allegedly are carried out by a secret Blackwater-XE/CIA/Joint Special Operations Command forward operating base in Karachi. The XE Services component was formerly known as Blackwater Select, yet another subsidiary in a byzantine network of shell and linked companies run by Blackwater/Xe on behalf of the CIA and the Pentagon. On December 3, 2009, the Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqtreported: 'Vast land near the Tarbela dam has also been given to the Americans where they have established bases for their army and air forces. There, the Indian RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] and Israeli Mossad are working in collaboration with the CIA to carry out extremist activities in Pakistan.'"

The bombing of a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan last December was blamed on the TTP but may have actually involved the covert Xe/CIA program to stage false flag attacks and something went drastically wrong with the operation that resulted in the deaths of seven CIA personnel, including the Khost station chief. The TTP was also linked to the failed Times Square "bombing" last May.

Responsibility for the recent bomb attack of a pro-Palestine Shi'a rally in Quetta that killed 54 people was claimed by the Pakistan Taliban, but it was actually carried out by one of the Xe covert cells in the country, acting in concert with the CIA, Israeli Mossad, and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The ultimate goal is to destabilize Pakistan to the point where it has no choice but to allow the Western powers to secure its nuclear weapons and remove them from the country in a manner similar to the procurement by the West of South Africa's nuclear weapons prior to the stepping down of the white minority government in the early 1990s.

WMR has been informed that any American, whether or not he or she holds a security clearance, is subject to U.S. national security prohibitions from discussing the U.S.- sponsored terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In one case, a threat was made against an individual who personally witnessed the Xe/CIA terrorist operations but is now threatened, along with family members.

CIA did business with Blackwater through over 30 brass plate firms -- WMR names them

CIA did business with Blackwater through over 30 brass plate firms -- WMR names them

In yet another example of how Barack Obama is subservient to the wishes of the CIA, his one-time employer through a well-documented front company, it has been revealed by the Senate Armed Services Committee that the former Blackwater established a network of 31 brass plate, shell, and off-shore tax dodging subsidiaries, many of which had contracts with the CIA. Some of these contracts continue with the CIA, as well as the State Department. The CIA's contract work with the successor companies to Blackwater and its subsidiaries has been authorized by CIA director Leon Panetta, who one former CIA official described to WMR as an "asshole who is merely a figurehead."

The New York Times recently reported that the Senate Armed Services Committee released a chart showing that Blackwater and its various entities, described as over 30 shell companies, to garner U.S. government contracts even after it was cited for human rights violations in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, the successor to Blackwater, Xe Services LLC, was awarded a $100 million contract by the CIA to provide security for its base of operations in Afghanistan. Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder, recently moved to Abu Dhbi with his family to seek new business for Xe Security in the region.

The New York Times misses the point in its revelation. Blackwater/Xe and all of its contrivances, many of them off-shore firms far removed from U.S. government oversight, fit the pattern usually found with CIA front companies. The fact that President Obama, himself, worked for such a firm, Business International Corporation in Manhattan, appears to have been lost on Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and his committee investigators. With Panetta at Langley and Robert Gates, a former CIA director at the helm of the Pentagon, Obama has signalled to the U.S. intelligence community that the use of CIA proprietaries by his administration is every much "business as usual" as was the CIA's use of Southern Air Transport, another CIA proprietary, during the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s. There also is no indication that Obama has abandoned the use of CIA airline proprietary firms, with post office box and mail drop addresses scattered across the United States that were first used by the Bush-Cheney administration in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" kidnapping and secret detention program.

The Times article mentions two Blackwater/Xe shadow firms, XPG and Greystone Ltd. WMR previously reported on the use of Barbados's company confidentiality laws by Blackwater to establish Greystone as an international marketing arm of Blackwater/Xe. From Barbados, Blackwater/Xe is free to conduct mercenary recruiting operations from nations around the world with dismally poor human rights records and ex-security force personnel more than willing to engage in their murderous activities under contract to the CIA, Pentagon, or any other repressive tin-horn dictatorship willing to pay.

On October 13, 2007, WMR reported on Greystone stirring up a political hornet's nest on Barbados: "Blackwater USA's international marketing branch, Greystone, Ltd., registered as an International Business Company in Barbados, is beginning to create a political stir in the Caribbean island nation. Recently, Erik Prince, Blackwater's Chairman and CEO, testified under oath to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that Blackwater did not market foreign governments to provide security services. He testified that the only foreign contracts performed by Blackwater were under license from the U.S. government. However, Greystone's website statesthe following about the subsidiary's foreign marketing:

"Greystone is an international security services company that offers your country or organization a complete solution to your most pressing security needs. We have the personnel, logistical support, equipment, and expertise to solve your most critical security problems."

Prince seems to have omitted Greystone as a Blackwater firm during his congressional testimony. Or he perjured himself under oath. Blackwater's presence in Barbados, under the corporate confidentiality regimes of the Caribbean island nation's off-shore corporation hosting legal contrivances, has stirred up opposition in the country. Bajans are pointing to Prime Minister Owen Arthur's Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Senator Lynette Eastmond, who has oversight authority for foreign corporations in Barbados. However, the selection of Barbados as Blackwater's headquarters for its international marketing arm is likely due to the island nation's past cooperation with other U.S. covert activities."

In the book, "Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates, Black Ops, and Big Oil," this editor delved into the use of various corporate contrivances by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies in the so-called "global war on terror." Although Obama said the global war terror is a thing of the past, it is another case of not listening to what Obama says but watching what he does. There is no indication that Obama is any different from his predecessor in using secretive corporate identities to mask U.S. covert operations, many of them of questionable legality, abroad.

The New York Times curiously did not produce Levin's committee's chart showing the some 30 Blackwater/Xe shell firms, partnerships, and subsidiaries. We are providing that information in the table of Blackwater/Xe's various corporate contrivances and linkages at the end of this article.

With private military contractors like Blackwater/Xe having hired tens of thousands of soldiers of fortune to supplement the military and para-military activities of the United States, Britain, and other countries, there may be another reason to keep these privateers fully employed. One such ex-private military contractor, who now finds himself out of work because of blowing the whistle on contract fraud and ties between private contractors and known terrorists, was more than willing to tell WMR what he discovered in his work in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Afghanistan and that is that "Al Qaeda is made-up bullshit."

On April 16, 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the then-commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, stated in a speech in Paris that the use of private security contractors in combat zones had "gone too far." Perhaps that was one of the major reasons that the CIA's sock puppet, Obama, and its one-time director, Gates, fired McChrystal. To have the top U.S. military commander questioning the CIA's covert wars and use of brigands to support them was likely the final nail in McChrystal's professional coffin.

With General David Petraeus, the neocons' favorite general, now in command in Afghanistan and Prince safely ensconced in Abu Dhabi, the CIA and its former employee Obama are free to continue to act in the shadows away from public scrutiny.

The Web of Blackwater
The Prince Group (holding company) Blackwater USA à Xe Services LLC Blackwater Worldwide à Xe Services Prince Manufacturing Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS), LLC The Black Group (merged to form TIS) The Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (merged to form TIS) Technical Defense (merged to form TIS) Blackwater Lodge & Training Center à US Training Center Blackwater Airships, LLC à Guardian Flight Systems Blackwater Maritime Solutions Raven Development Group Blackwater Target Systems à GSD Manufacturing Blackwater Security Consulting Blackwater Peace and Stability Operations Institute Blackwater K-9 Aviation Worldwide Services (AWS) à AAR Corporation STI Aviation, Inc. (subsidiary of AWS) Air Quest, Inc. “ Presidential Airways, Inc. Blackwater SELECT (Karachi) Kestral Holdings (Pakistani partner) Kestral Logistics Kestral Trading Blackwater PTC Paravant, LLC. XPG E&J Holdings LLC Greystone, Ltd. (Barbados) Satelles Solutions, Inc. (Philippines) Constellation Consulting Grupo Tactico (Chile) (partner) --> Red Tactica Consulting Group, Washington, DC Neskowin (Uruguay) (recruiter) Global Guards (Panama) (recruiter) --> Gun Supply (Lima) --> Triple Canopy --> Your Solutions, Inc. (Honduran recruiter) --> Clayton Consultants --> AIG TigerSwan (spin-off) Babylon Eagles/TigerSwan (Iraqi joint venture) Sovereign Military Order of Malta (diplomatic cover)*

* Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta(SMOM) is a Roman Catholic order based in Rome and enjoying sovereignty under international law. It has observer status at the United Nations and issues diplomatic passports. It has diplomatic relations with a number of nations where Blackwater/Xe is reportedly active, including Chile, Philippines, Bulgaria, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Panama, Uruguay, and Somalia. The entity also operates its own military aircraft. Prince and other top Blackwater/Xe executives are members of the SMOM, leading to charges that they are trying to renew the Christian Crusades against the Muslims.

Blackwater/XE behind terrorist bombings in Asia and Africa?

WMR's intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out "false flag" terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel.

Fingers are being pointed at Blackwater/XE and Mossad operatives for the motorbike bomb in Tehran that killed Tehran University nuclear physicist Dr. Moussad Ali-Mohammadi. On January 12, a bomb attached to a motorbike outside of Ali-Mohammadi's house went off while the professor was leaving for work. The bomb, which instantly killed to pro-reform Ali-Mohammadi, was remotely triggered by a team that was later linked to a U.S.-base group called the Iran Monarchy Association, which favors restoring the son of the late Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi II, to Iran's "Peacock Throne." The Iran Monarchy Association is believed to be a CIA front organization.

There are also reports that Blackwater/XE personnel are in Somalia and have carried out terrorist bombings in Mogadishu that have been blamed by the United States and the puppet transitional government of Somalia on the Al-Shabab Islamic irregular forces as a pretext for a wider Blackwater role in the country.

Blackwater is also believed to be transiting between Somalia, the breakaway republic of Somaliland, and Yemen. WMR has learned of Blackwater counter-insurgency personnel working alongside Yemeni security forces in joint operations against Huthi rebels in the predominantly-Shi'a region of northern Yemen. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen recently stated that there were no plans to station U.S. troops in Yemen but he studiously avoided mentioning a counter-insurgency role for U.S. private military contractors.

Blackwater maritime security personnel have also been active in the Gulf of Aden region against so-called Somali "pirates," who are, in reality, Somali fishermen who are exacting tribute because of over-fishing of Somali waters by foreign fishing fleets and the dumping of toxic waste in Somali waters.

A number of terrorist bombings in Pakistan have been blamed by Pakistani Islamic leaders on Blackwater, Mossad, and RAW. Blackwater has been accused of hiring young Pakistanis in Peshawar to carry out false flag bombings that are later blamed on the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. One such bombing took place during the Ashura procession in Karachi last month. The terrorist attacks are carried out by a secret Blackwater-XE/CIA/Joint Special Operations Command forward operating base in Karachi. The XE Services component was formerly known as Blackwater Select, yet another subsidiary in a byzantine network of shell and linked companies run by Blackwater/Xe on behalf of the CIA and the Pentagon.

On December 3, 2009, the Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt reported: "Vast land near the Tarbela dam has also been given to the Americans where they have established bases for their army and air forces. There, the Indian RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] and Israeli Mosad are working in collaboration with the CIA to carry out extremist activities in Pakistan."

Blackwater/XE is also thought to be carrying out terrorist roadside bombings in Algeria, once the exclusive domain of the mercenary French Foreign Legion, to justify a greater American security presence in Algeria, ostensibly to protect natural gas pipelines in the country.

Blackwater/XE and agents of the Mossad and RAW are also reportedly active in sponsoring Islamist terrorist groups active in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China for a variety of reasons. For the United States, the operations are to ensure those nation's support for the U.S. "counter-terrorism" operations in central Asia. For India, there is a desire to pin blame for support for Uighur and other central Asian Islamist guerrilla movements on Pakistan in order to drive a wedge between Beijing and Islamabad. For Israel, the support helps in continuing close security relationships between Tel Aviv and Beijing and the Muslim central Asian "stans."

RAW has also been smuggling radical Islamic literature to Uighurs in Xinjiang. All of the literaure has the imprimatur of Pakistan. RAW uses Indian consulates in Jalalabad and Kandahar in Afghanistan to help U.S. covert teams to carry out bombings that are blamed on the Taliban and Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) interlocutors. Blaackwater/XE personnel based in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, have also been active in supporting cross-border raids by an Iranian Baluchi terrorist group called Jundullah. Nawa-i Waqt also reported that two Baluchi separatist groups, the Baluch Liberation Front and the Baluch Liberation Army, "have their headquarters in London and Israel respectively."

Blackwater's graymailing of Obama administration

Shadow Wars, Shadow Killers, Assassination Teams

Sudan: The two F-16s caught the trucks deep in the northern desert. Within minutes, the column of vehicles was a string of shattered wrecks burning fiercely in the January sun. Surveillance drones spotted a few vehicles that had survived the storm of bombs and cannon shells, and the fighter-bombers returned to finish the job.

Syria: Four Blackhawk helicopters skimmed across the Iraqi border, landing at a small farmhouse near the town of al-Sukkariyeh. Black-clad soldiers poured from the choppers, laying down a withering hail of automatic weapons fire. When the shooting stopped, eight Syrians lay dead on the ground. Four others, cuffed and blindfolded, were dragged to the helicopters, which vanished back into Iraq.

Pakistan: a group of villagers were sipping tea in a courtyard when the world exploded. The Hellfire missiles seemed to come out of nowhere, scattering pieces of their victims across the village and demolishing several houses. Between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, 60 such attacks took place. They killed 14 wanted al-Qaeda members along with 687 civilians.

In each of the above incidents, no country took responsibility or claimed credit. There were no sharp exchanges of diplomatic notes before the attacks, just sudden death and mayhem.

War without Declaration

The F-16s were Israeli, their target an alleged shipment of arms headed for the Gaza Strip. The Blackhawk soldiers were likely from Task Force 88, an ultra-secret U.S. Special Forces group. The Pakistanis were victims of a Predator drone directed from an airbase in southern Nevada.

Each attack was an act of war and drew angry responses from the country whose sovereignty was violated. But since no one admitted carrying them out, the diplomatic protests had no place to go.

The "privatization" of war, with its use of armed mercenaries, has come under heavy scrutiny, especially since a 2007 incident in Baghdad in which guards from Blackwater USA (now Xe) went on a shooting spree, killing 17 Iraqis and wounding scores of others. But the "covertization" of war has remained largely in the shadows. The attackers in the Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan were not private contractors, but U.S. and Israeli soldiers.

Assassination Teams

In his book The War Within, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward disclosed that the U.S. military has developed "secret operational capabilities" to "locate, target, and kill key individuals in extremist groups."

In a recent interview during a Great Conversations event at the University of Minnesota, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed a U.S. military "executive assassination ring," part of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Hersh says that "Congress has no oversight" over the program.

According to a 2004 classified document, the United States has the right to attack "terrorists" in some 15 to 20 nations, including Pakistan, Syria, and Iran. The Israeli military has long used "targeted assassinations" to eliminate Tel Aviv's enemies. U.S. and NATO "assassination teams" have emerged in Iraq and Afghanistan, where, according to the UN, they have killed scores of people. Philip Alston of the UN Human Rights Council charges that secret "international intelligence services" allied with local militias are killing Afghan civilians and then hiding behind an "impenetrable" wall of bureaucracy.

When Alston protested the killing of two brothers in Kandahar, "not only was I unable to get any international military commander to provide their version of what took place, but I was unable to get any military commander to even admit that their soldiers were involved," he told the Financial Times.

In Iraq, such special operations forces have carried out a number of killings, including a raid that killed the son and a nephew of the governor of Salahuddin Province north of Baghdad. The Special Operations Forces (SOF) stormed the house at 3AM and shot the governor's 17-year-old son dead in his bed. When a cousin tried to enter the room, he was also gunned down.

Such "night raids" by SOFs have drawn widespread protests in Afghanistan. According to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, night raids involve "abusive behavior and violent breaking and entry," and only serve to turn Afghans against the occupation.

Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri Kamal al-Maliki charged that a March 26 raid in Kut that killed two men violated the new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.

The Predator strikes have deeply angered most Pakistanis. Owais Ahmed Ghani, governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, calls the drone strikes "counterproductive," a sentiment that David Kilcullen, the top advisor to the U.S. military in Afghanistan, agreed with in recent congressional testimony. The U.S. government doesn't officially take credit for the attacks.

Budgets and Strategy

If Congress agrees to the Defense Department budget proposed by Pentagon chief Robert Gates, attacks by SOF and armed robots will likely increase. While most the media focused on the parts of the budget that step back from the big ticket weapons systems of the Cold War, the proposal actually resurrects a key Cold War priority of the 1960s.

"The similarities between Gates' proposals and the strategy adopted by the Kennedy administration are too great to ignore," notes Nation defense correspondent Michael Klare. These similarities include "a shift in focus toward unconventional conflict in the Third World."

Gates' budget would increase the number of SOFs by 2,800, build more drones like the Predator and its bigger, more lethal cousin, the Reaper, and enhance the rapid movement of troops and equipment. All of this is part of General David Petraeus's counterinsurgency doctrine.

The concept is hardly new. The units are different than they were 50 years ago — Navy SEALS and Delta Force have replaced Green Berets — but the philosophy is the same. And while the public face of counterinsurgency is winning "hearts and minds" by building schools and digging wells, its core is 3AM raids and Hellfire missiles.

The "decapitations" of insurgent leaders in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is little different — albeit at a lower level — than Operation Phoenix, which killed upwards of 40,000 "insurgent" leaders in South Vietnam during the war in Southeast Asia.

Hidden Wars

In the past, war was an extension of a nation's politics "too important," as World War I French Premier Georges Clemenceau commented, "to be left to the generals."

But increasingly, the control of war is slipping away from the civilians in whose name and interests it is supposedly waged. While the "privatization" of war has frustrated the process of congressional oversight, its "covertization" has hidden war behind a wall of silence or denial.

"Congress has been very passive in relation to its own authority with regard to warmaking," says Princeton international law scholar Richard Falk. "Congress hasn't been willing to insist that the government adhere to international law and the U.S. Constitution."

The SFOs may be hidden, but there are eight dead people in Syria, four of them reportedly children. There are at least 39 dead in northern Sudan, and more dead in Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of civilian dead in Pakistan runs into the hundreds.

The new defense budget goes a long ways toward retooling the U.S. military to become a quick reaction/intervention force with an emphasis on counterinsurgency and covert war. The question is: Where will the shadow warriors strike next?

Conn Hallinan is a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist.