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  Mark Kimmitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kimmitt, the normally impassive Coalition spokesperson in Baghdad, seemed to be relishing the prospect.
Mark Kimmitt's father is Joseph Stanley Kimmitt (Stan), a former Col. in Army and partner in Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, and Weinferter [4], who passed away in 2004.
Mark Kimmitt's brother [5] Joseph Kimmitt (Jay) is a Washington, DC, lobbyist for Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Truck Corp [6], the No. 1 maker of concrete mixers, trash haulers and military trucks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Kimmitt   (406 words)

  
 COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH BRIGADIER GENERAL MARK KIMMITT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
KIMMITT: And as to the discussion about the link between smuggling and attacks against American forces, we certainly have said throughout and believed throughout that all the attacks on American fores, all the attacks on coalition forces have to be funded through some process.
KIMMITT: I would say the image that struck me was not the fact that we had soldiers in the mosque, but the fact that a holy site, a holy mosque, which is a place for free expression of religion, was being used as an arms cache.
KIMMITT: I would say the comment I would make on that is that is something that we experience every day here in Iraq as we send our soldiers out from 35 different nations to provide a safe and secure environment for the people of Iraq.
www.cpa-iraq.org /transcripts/Jan4_KimmittSenor.htm   (5098 words)

  
 WHO IS GEN. MARK KIMMITT: Apologist for Falluja; Dad Is Defense Industry Insider : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kimmitt is the PR man for the Iraq massacre and the deputy commander.
The Kimmitts are a classic example of the revolving-door syndrome of U.S. military officers and defense contractors.
Gen. Kimmitt's brother, Joseph "Jay" Kimmitt, is a Washington, DC, lobbyist employed by Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Truck Corp. the No. 1 maker of concrete mixers, trash haulers and military trucks.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2004/04/1690086.php   (729 words)

  
 COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH BRIGADIER GENERAL MARK KIMMITT
KIMMITT: On the second question, the number, the most recent number that we do have confirmed by the 82nd Airborne Division, who is reporting this, is that there were nine personnel on board the aircraft.
KIMMITT: All of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marine that come into theater go through a significant amount of training on not only how to fight and conduct their combat operations, but also to understand the cultural context of where they're going to be operating in.
KIMMITT: As we said yesterday, and have said numerous times from the platform, we have roughly today somewhere over 9,500 -- just under 9,500 detainees -- that are being held in the coalition detention facilities, and then the other 3,400 to 3,500 of the MEK whose status is being determined at this time.
www.iraqcoalition.org /transcripts/Jan8_KimmittSenor.htm   (5442 words)

  
 United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mark Kimmitt is justifying U.S. attacks on Najaf and Fallujah as 'defending the legitimate democratic institutions of this country.' But there are no such democratic institutions.
Mark Kimmitt justified the killing his troops are doing in Najaf as a response to, among other things, Moqtada al-Sadr's "attack [on] the legitimate democratic institutions of this country."[3]
Mark Kimmitt had said there was no ultimatum for a launch of an assault if political efforts are not showing results.
www.ufppc.org /content/view/474/2   (3844 words)

  
 Mark Kimmitt - SourceWatch
Mark T. Kimmitt, US Army, is currently deputy director of plans for U.S. Central Command [1] (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyandu=/ap/20041116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_us_casualtiesandcid=542andncid=1478).
Mark Kimmitt first became known to the public as the spokesman for the US military in Iraq.
Mark Kimmitt's father is Joseph Stanley Kimmitt (Stan), a former Col. in Army and now partner in the Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist, firm Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, and Weinferter [4] (http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/48fabhq.htm).
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Mark_Kimmitt   (454 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Mark Kimmitt
The seal of the CPA in Iraq History of the CPA Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) was the organization established by the United States Government that acted as a caretaker administration in Iraq until civilian rule resumed on June 28, 2004.
Mark Kimmitt's father is Joseph Stanley Kimmitt (Stan), a former Col. in Army and now partner in the Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist, firm Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, and Weinferter [4] (http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/48fabhq.htm).
Mark Kimmitt's brother [5] (http://djo.mywebcam.com/djov2/?f=obits.html) Joseph Kimmitt (Jay) is a Washington, DC, lobbyist for Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Truck Corp [6] (http://oshkoshtruckcorporation.com/about/corporategovernance~directorsofficers.cfm), the No. 1 maker of concrete mixers, trash haulers and military trucks.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mark-Kimmitt   (610 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kimmitt said a suicide bomber triggered the device inside a vehicle and died in the explosion.
Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, said that Ayed Hameed Nouri was arrested Feb. 23 at the Niwan Hotel in central Mosul.
Kimmitt said innocent women and children are being targeted to terrorize the Iraqi people, in the hope that the country would revert to dictatorial...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=genkimmitt   (1296 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
MARK KIMMITT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS: We have no indications right now who was responsible, but the method that was used would indicate that it probably was a member of the former regime who put the car bomb astride the restaurant when it blew up.
KIMMITT: One of the ways is to count on the Iraqi people to provide us with as much intelligence as possible so that prior to these attacks we can go after those that would commit such acts and kill, capture and bring to justice those before it happens.
MARK KIMMITT, U.S. ARMY: I think on balance the commanders would come back and say the decision to not wait until we had the perfect solution was the wise one, the prudent one and one that's probably saved a significant amount of coalition lives in the process.
www.studentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0401/01/ltm.06.html   (1276 words)

  
 COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH BRIGADIER GENERAL MARK KIMMITT
KIMMITT: On your first comment regarding the operation that was run in the middle of the desert two nights ago, in fact it was a combination of air assets and ground assets.
KIMMITT: Mark, one thing I want to add: There were a number of women, a handful of women -- I think the number was four to six -- that were actually caught up in the engagement.
KIMMITT: The foreigners that were involved in the al Qaim incident -- actually it was about 85 kilometers southwest, close to the Syrian border.
www.cpa-iraq.org /transcripts/20040521_May21Kimmitt_Senor.html   (5014 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - U.S. general speaks out on new abuse probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mark Kimmitt, now based in Qatar, spoke on the pan-Arab television network a day after the U.S. military launched a criminal investigation into photographs that appear to show Navy SEALs in Iraq sitting on hooded and handcuffed detainees.
Kimmitt, the spokesman in Iraq at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal, said he believes the photos show the acts of an isolated few.
After months of investigation, Kimmitt said the number of U.S. military troops involved in acts of abuse has been found to be very limited.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-12-05-kimmitt_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA   (647 words)

  
 Mark Kimmitt < Generals < Personnel < Defense < Region < : news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters that an “improvised explosive” was rigged to a 155 mm artillery shell that contained sarin.
Mark Kimmitt said the investigation began in January when an American soldier reported the abuse and turned over evidence that included photographs.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, expressed his embarrassment and regret for what had happened.
www.schema-root.org /region/americas/north_america/usa/government/executive/cabinet/defense/personnel/generals/mark_kimmitt   (473 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - U.S. spokesman in Iraq appears to nearly faint
Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of U.S. military operations in Iraq is seen on left.
Mark Kimmitt, the deputy head of operations in Iraq, who delivers daily briefings to Baghdad-based journalists alongside the top U.S. coalition spokesman Dan Senor.
Kimmitt had left the podium for a few minutes earlier in the press conference, which was broadcast live internationally.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2513236   (391 words)

  
 GEN. KIMMITT, Poster Boy of the US MI Complex, Was NOT KIA, Has New Fan Club! : Melbourne Indymedia
Mark Kimmitt is doing his job - in public (!), and in 'good' days and 'bad', while you are probably sitting in a cosy armchair at your computer, messing about with an email address similar to the one which you pretend to be Mark Kimmitt's.
The Kimmitt’s are a classic example of the revolving-door syndrome of US military officers and defense contractors - the basis of the "military-industrial complex", the self -cloning monster that feeds on war, death, and destruction.
Kimmitt, who was the military spokesman in Iraq at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal and is now based in Qatar, told al-Jazeera that he believes the photos show the acts of an isolated few.
melbourne.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=84208   (7419 words)

  
 DoD News: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing
Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Coalition Operations and Dan Senor, Senior Adviser, CPA
            GEN. KIMMITT:  In the second case it was reported to us that these were civilians not associated with either a government or the coalition.  We don't know the circumstances other than the initial report we've had, that there was a bomb explosion.
That's up to the insurgents, because coalition forces will respond; they will be in that city.  It will be at a time and a place of our choosing.  It will be methodical.  It will be precise and it will be overwhelming.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2004/tr20040401-0575.html   (2026 words)

  
 DoD News: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing
Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director, Coalition Operations; and Daniel Senor, Senior Adviser, CPA
Zarqawi's documents come up repeatedly, and we know that he's taken credit for past operations, particularly against the Shi'a during religious times at religious sites.  And as this one comes to closure, we must continue to be cautious.
            GEN. KIMMITT:  I think the -- there are units that, for whatever their level of training, whatever their level of experience, whatever their level of willingness, chose not to stand side by side with the coalition to liberate the people in Fallujah.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2004/tr20040412-0602.html   (2115 words)

  
 Brig. Gen Mark Kimmitt and Dan Senor CJTF7 and Coalition Provisional Authority Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
KIMMITT: What I can tell you is that those personnel are providing information that are leading to further operations in the region.
KIMMITT: Well, if you take a look at the third tier of the people that we have on that list, the 50,000 group, there are some that we suspect of having foreign affiliation and internal affiliation as well, people that we suspect of carrying on operations.
KIMMITT: That will be a decision that has to be determined by the Korean military and by the Korean government in terms of what specific rules of engagement they are going to permit their soldiers to use and in what environment they're prepared to commit their soldiers.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1084834/posts   (5946 words)

  
 Rumsfeld 'Unsure' of Torture In Iraq - by Mark Rothschild
Asked on Monday, Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said he was unsure what private contractors were doing at the prison.
Speaking to Public Radio host Allex Chadwick, from Baghdad, General Kimmitt was asked whether private contractors were carrying out interrogations of prisoners in the prisons in Iraq.
While Kimmitt pleaded his prior ignorance about what happened inside Abu Ghraib, CPA head L. Paul Bremer was dealing with accusations that he was informed about abuses by Iraqi Human Rights Minister Abdel Basset Turki as early as November of 2003.
www.antiwar.com /orig/rothschild.php?articleid=2478   (664 words)

  
 Scrapbook of a U.S. Defeat by Mike Rogers
Mark Kimmitt commenting on how al-Sadr would be treated when arrested.
Mark Kimmitt as the US-led coalition in Iraq unveiled a fresh political blueprint to end the three-week siege of Falluja.
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor and Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt explained that the Coalition is not executing a campaign of collective punishment, is targeting only those who had demonstrated themselves to be violently anti-Coalition, and is following strict rules of engagement and stringent policies concerning the use of force.
www.lewrockwell.com /rogers/rogers34.html   (6933 words)

  
 DoD News: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing from Iraq
Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations, Combined Joint Task Force 7, and Dan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority.)
     Kimmitt:  We understand that Grand Ayatollah Sistani is currently in a safe location.  We do not believe he is being held by coalition forces.  He is certainly not being held by coalition forces, but he is being protected by his own people.
But, to General Kimmitt's point, the focus is on the here and now, and certainly the memo that was discovered is quite enlightening in that regard.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2004/tr20040209-0434.html   (1395 words)

  
 Washington File
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, briefing the media in Baghdad May 25, was asked to comment on news reports that Sanchez, commander of Multinational Forces Iraq, would be leaving soon.
Kimmitt said that combat commanders are normally kept in theater for a year.
KIMMITT: Including Dan and including me. But in the case of [Lieutenant] General [Ricardo] Sanchez, yeah, I saw some of those reports.
globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/05/mil-040525-usia01.htm   (418 words)

  
 Mark Kimmitt
Of the substandard human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq he says "because the scale of this was so small that the people of Iraq will forgive us."[1]
Mark Kimmitt's father is Joseph Stanley Kimmitt (Stan), a former Col. in Army and now partner in the Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist, firm Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, & Weinferter; [1].
Mark Kimmitt's brother [1] Joseph Kimmitt (Jay) is a Washington, DC, lobbyist for Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Truck Corp [1], the No. 1 maker of concrete mixers, trash haulers and military trucks.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mark_kimmitt   (428 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Iraqis 'will forgive jail abuse'
Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt told the BBC's Talking Point programme that the photos of abuse by US soldiers at the Baghdad jail were not representative.
Gen Kimmitt said coalition troops had great respect for life, in contrast with the "terrorists" who placed car bombs in crowds and near schools.
Gen Kimmitt added that following the release of a video apparently showing the bodies of musicians who had earlier been entertaining a group pf people at the site, an "open and honest" investigation had been launched by the US military.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3762217.stm   (490 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
KIMMITT: Well, as was stated earlier, we did have an attack last night at a coalition military facility outside of Baghdad.
KIMMITT: Well, all of our commanders take active force protection measures -- the clothes we wear, the way we protect our bases, the facilities that they live in.
Our attitude is we are here until the president changes his mind or until the job is done, whichever comes first, and we expect that the mission will be completed before we pull out.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0401/08/ltm.09.html   (807 words)

  
 MilitaryCity.com Discussions - By Steven KomarowUSA Today BAGHDAD, Iraq — Nearly every afternoon, coalition spokesman ...
Mark Kimmitt stride to the podium here to talk about progress in Iraq.
He likens Kimmitt to Saddam Hussein’s mouthpiece, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, best known to Americans as “Baghdad Bob.” As U.S. forces entered Baghdad last April, al-Sahhaf continued to tell Iraqis that the capital was in the hands of Saddam’s forces.
Senor and Kimmitt were wrapping up their news briefing on Monday when an Iraqi journalist suggested that they use different words to describe the Iraqis killed by U.S. forces in battle.“Gen. Kimmitt, in all conferences you always say something that makes Iraqis angry.
www.militarycity.com /discussions/showthread.php?t=2948361   (663 words)

  
 Mark Kimmitt - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Mark Kimmitt - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Mark Kimmitt's father is Joseph Stanley Kimmitt (Stan), a former Col. in Army and partner in Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, and Weinferter [4] (http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/48fabhq.htm), who passed away in 2004.
Though the US military continues to assert that Kimmitt is working out of Central Command at McDill AFB, it's likely that he was killed in action in Iraq some time in 2004.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mark_Kimmitt   (446 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Kimmitt departs this week, the Coalition will lose a representative whose imperturbability, quick responses to questions, and upbeat attitude have become famous across the country.
"Kimmitt is the lord of lies," said Basra taxi driver Hamza al-Shimari, 33.
Kimmitt's alleged high-handedness is particularly infuriating to supporters of anti-Coalition movements.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/irq/irq_73_5_eng.txt   (578 words)

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