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	Vinnell Corporation - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell Corporation, a Northrop Grumman Company, founded in 1931, performs services for governments, international agencies, US military and private clients, including Oman, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
		Vinnell's corporate headquarters, in Fairfax, Virginia, provides the operational base for marketing and for financial, personnel, data, and project management.
		Vinnell has undertaken projects in over fifty countries on five continents, includi operational and logistics support, facilities and grounds maintenance, training, freight forwarding, and subcontract management.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Vinnell_Corporation (1334 words)

	Mercenaries Inc.: How a U.S. Company Props Up the House of Saud
		Vinnell's Asian adventures served as a springboard for its emergence as a global company that was more than willing to do a little intelligence work on the side if the opportunity presented itself.
		Vinnell posted losses every year from 1970 through 1974, and in January 1975 the company filed a reorganization plan with the California Department of Corporations in which it proposed to sell voting control in the company to a Lebanese investor for the modest sum of $500,000.
		Vinnell's role as the regime's principal security "prop" was barely discussed in the U.S. media, but the company did figure indirectly in the biggest intelligence scandal of the decade, Iran/contra.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0513-06.htm (2782 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell Corporation was awarded a contract in the sum of $14,753,240 by the Bureau of Reclamation on January 19, 1972 for the construction of siphons, a tunnel, a concrete-lined canal, and an access road.
		Under the contract Vinnell is required to furnish and install some 16,000 lineal feet of pipe having an inside diameter of approximately 17-feet in 20-feet sections, each valued at about $12,000 and weighing about 150 tons (reportedly the largest pipe ever produced in the U.S.).
		Vinnell elected to furnish and place concrete cylinder prestressed pipe and contracted with Ameron, Inc., to [2] ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ /FN1/ This case may be cited as the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, New Mexico, WAB 73-07.
	www.oalj.dol.gov /public/dba/decsn/73WB07w.txt (2007 words)

	Vinnell The Target (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The residential compound and the offices used by Vinnell were hit, killing nine of the company's employees and injuring several others, two critically.
		Al-Qaeda has a particular hatred for the US Vinnell Corporation because it trains the Saudi Arabian National Guard, the country's internal security force and an integral part of the Saudi military forces.
		By then, Vinnell had trained the Saudi National Guard, and had worked alongside them during the first Gulf War launched while Mr Bush snr and Mr Baker were in office.
	www.countercurrents.org /us-wilkinson150503.htm (292 words)

	Vinnell Corporation - SourceWatch
		Company founder Albert Vinnell offered his staff's services to the agency and several CIA agents used employment with Vinnell as cover for operations in Africa and the Middle East.
		Finally, private corporate "consultants" may be able to keep a lower profile than American military personnel within Saudi Arabia where at least a portion of the population resents a foreign military presence.
		Hiring out the Guard training mission to Vinnell is an effort to avoid the perception that the royal family's autocratic internal policies are being implemented and supported by the American military.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Vinnell_Corporation (1334 words)

	VBR on OverseasJobs.com
		The VBR Organization, with managing offices at Vinnell’s corporate headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, is structured to ensure full authority and autonomy of decision-making at the VBR program headquarters level in Adana, Turkey.
		Vinnell Corporation, founded in 1931, has earned a reputation for excellence in the performance of a broad range of services for governments, international agencies, US military and private clients.
		Vinnell has successfully undertaken projects in over fifty countries on five continents through a consistently high level of professional and technical proficiency and a thorough understanding of local cultural, business and physical environs.
	www.overseasjobs.com /do/profile/436 (680 words)

	The Vinnell Corporation
		Technically Vinnell is contracted by the US government on behalf of the Saudi government, thus its personnel are not considered to be in the direct employ of the Saudis for most legal purposes.
		Vinnell Corporation is a construction company founded in 1931.
		Client requirements have led Vinnell to a vast array of challenges, from Malaysia to Mexico to the Middle East, often to the very heart of international conflict areas'.
	www.prouty.org /vinnell.html (1160 words)

	THE NEW MERCENARIES -- CORPORATE ARMIES FOR HIRE
		Second, these corporations, at least those based in western states, do not take contracts that are in direct opposition to their country's national interest.
		Corporations Becoming Part of the Military: Within the United States, there are a number of these corporations that not only are working for the interest of the US government, but also are part of Department of Defense (DoD) planning considerations.
		The lucrative future for these corporations appears to be in areas of the world where a government is having difficulty with rebel movements or organized crime: Angola, Bosnia, Congo, Sierra Leone, Columbia, etc. These are also the regions where the US will most likely find itself deployed in Military Operations Other Than War.
	www.faoa.org /journal/newmerc3.html (2498 words)

	Desert Dispatch - Full Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell Corporation, a Northrop Grumman company, and members of Teamsters Local 166 agreed to a five-year deal that includes a 3 percent across-the-board pay raise retroactive to October.
		The most Vinnell will pay in the new contract starts at $697 for the rest of this year and 2004, increases to $758 in 2005, $823 in 2006 and $889 in 2007.
		Vinnell employs about 400 at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in a wide variety of maintenance services.
	www.desertdispatch.com /cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1058628834,73219, (501 words)

	Asia Times
		However, for members of the Saudi royal family, Vinnell is well known since in many ways the company represents the last line of defense between the crown and those that might seek to bring it down.
		And now the spotlight has fallen on Vinnell as the residential compound and the offices its used were hit, with nine of its employees killed, in the suicide attacks on Monday.
		Founded in 1931, the Vinnell corporation was as a small contracting firm with one of its first projects being on the Los Angeles city highway system.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EE17Ak02.html (959 words)

	Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity
		Vietnam almost led Vinnell to bankruptcy, but a 1975 contract worth $77 million to train the Saudi Arabian National Guard started a long and lucrative history of involvement in the Middle East.
		Vinnell was briefly in the spotlight in November 1995 when security questions were posed after a car bomb ripped through the building where Vinnell's managers for the Saudi Arabian National Guard training program worked.
		Vinnell was a subsidiary of TRW Inc., until 2002, when Northrop Grumman Corp.—the second-largest defense contractor in the United States—acquired TRW Inc. Vinnell Corp. is part of Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems division.
	www.publicintegrity.org /wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=64 (1028 words)

	CorpWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell corporation was founded by the late A. Vinnell in 1931 to pave roads in Los Angeles.
		Perhaps the most important military contract Vinnell landed was in 1975 when the Pentagon helped the company win a bid to train the 75,000 strong Saudi Arabian National Guard, a military unit descended from the Bedouin warriors who helped the Saud clan impose control on the peninsula early in last century.
		In return Vinnell has constructed, run, staffed, and written doctrine for five military academies, seven shooting ranges, and a healthcare system, as well as training and equipping four mechanized brigades and five infantry brigades.
	www.warprofiteers.com /print_article.php?&id=6029 (314 words)

	TRW/Vinnell - Soup to Nuts in less than 90 Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell Corporation, a TRW Company, won a contract to manage 129 Administrative Service Centers (ASC) for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the summer of 1999.
		Vinnell's financial management staff at TRW's Enterprise Management Services (EMS) Group had determined that adding the INS contract to EMS' legacy accounting system would not be workable.
		The Vinnell Human Resources (HR) group was busy with a parallel effort to hire all the employees working for the incumbent contractor on the INS contract.
	members.aol.com /jbgreer/TRW.html (3258 words)

	Vinnell Seavin - Egypt. Vbr Tbmc - Turkey. Vinnell/arabia. Automation. Doctrine Developers V2.2.3 Copy
		Vinnell Corporation company research hoovers 12150 E. Complete text of the article, Vinnell and the House of Saud, by Ian Urbina.
		Vinnell and the House of Saud Few people had ever heard of the Vinnell corporation before the recent bombings in Riyadh.
		Vinnell Corporation, is a recognized leader in facilities.
	www.99hosted.com /names17263.html (533 words)

	Vinnell Corporation: The Link Between Oil Fields, Saudi Troops, “No Jews” Clauses, Coup Attempts in Grenada, and ...
		Vinnell Corporation: The Link Between Oil Fields, Saudi Troops, “No Jews” Clauses, Coup Attempts in Grenada, and Monday’s Car Bombings in Saudi Arabia
		For the second time in a decade, Saudi bombers target the U.S. company which has been training the Saudi military.
		Vinnell’s work in Saudi Arabia dates back nearly three decades ago, when it won a contract to train Saudi troops to guard oilfields.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3393.htm (507 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 05/14/2003: "A familiar name pops up in Riyadh blast story" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As befits a company that has been accused of being a CIA front, of recruiting “executive mercenaries” and attempting to overthrow the Prime Minister of a Commonwealth state, the Vinnell Corporation kept a low profile in Riyadh.
		This shadowy corporation is said to have been founded during the Depression.
		Vinnell’s work in Saudi Arabia dates back almost 30 years, when it won a contract to train Saudi troops to guard oilfields.
	www.blah3.com /graymatter/archives/00000078.html (507 words)

	nbc4.com - News - Local Company's Employees Die In Saudi Bombing
		The housing complex where Vinnell employees lived was one of three targeted by terrorists.
		Of the nine Vinnell employees killed, seven are U.S. citizens and two are from the Philippines.
		It is the second time Vinnell's operations have been the target of a terrorist attack.
	www.nbc4.com /news/2201492/detail.html (387 words)

	Saudi Arabien - nyheder fra Saudi Arabien , selvmordsbombe Riyadh
		Det viser sig at syv af de amerikanske ofre og to filippinske, var ansat af firmaet Vinnell Corporation.
		Vinnell Corporation er en afdeling af Northrop Grumman Corporation, der har hovedsæde i Los Angeles.
		Vinnell Corporation kalder sig førende når det gælder træning af militærpersonel og betjening af militært udstyr.
	www.at-rejse-er-at-leve.dk /nyheder/selvmordsbombe_riyadh.htm (383 words)

	SAUDI ARABIA: CIA front targeted in terrorist attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell, founded in California in 1931, first gained a foothold in Saudi Arabia in 1975.
		According to Gaul, it was during this period that Albert Vinnell, the corporation's founder, “offered his staff's services to the [CIA], and several CIA agents used employment with Vinnell as cover for operations in Africa and the Middle East”.
		In 1975, Vinnell was contracted to train the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) — the monarchy's key force for repressing opposition to its autocratic rule.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/539/539p14.htm (1322 words)

	Northrop Grumman Confirms Nine Employees Killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) today confirmed that nine employees of its Vinnell Corporation subsidiary were killed Monday evening in an apparent terrorist attack on a company facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
		Of the nine Vinnell employees killed, seven were U.S. citizens and two were citizens of the Philippines.
		Several Vinnell employees were injured and taken to area hospitals and a number have been treated and released.
	www.redrat.net /BUSH_WAR/mercenaries2.htm (372 words)

	www.globalresearch.ca :: View topic - The Vinnell- Saudi National Guard Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell, which is a subsidiary of TRW/Northrop Grumman is contractor of the Saudi National Guard since 1975.
		The residential compound and the offices used by Vinnell were hit, killing nine of its employees and injuring several others, two of whom are in a critical condition.
		In 1997 Vinnell was taken over by the American military contractor TRW, but continued its work for the Saudi Government.
	globalresearch.ca.myforums.net /viewtopic.php?t=60 (1017 words)

	Vinnell - LHCA UNPUBLISHED Document: 01-0741.WPD: Haynes v. Vinnell Corporation
		The Vinnell Corporation: A Northrop Grumman Subsidiary The Vinnell Corporation is a different kind of military contrator - a leader in the field of a
		Vinnell Corporation: 'We Train People to Pull Triggers' Vinnell corporation was founded by the late AS Vinnell in 1931 to pave roads in Los Angeles.
		Known locally as the Vinnell compound, it is home to scores of former US servicemen who train Vinnell has participated in every major war since WWII.
	www.hispider.com /?q=vinnell (848 words)

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		The dead man, Robert Jacobs, 62, worked for the Vinnell Corporation, an American defence contractor hired by the US military to train the guard, whose duties include protecting the Saudi royal family.
		It was the fifth assault on westerners in Saudi Arabia in five weeks and the second time in two days that an individual appeared to have been selected as a specific target.
		Vinnell said that Mr Jacobs had chosen to live outside the company’s protected compound.
	www.rantburg.com /jMailer.asp?ID=35067 (192 words)

	Vinnell Corporation
		Vinnell Corporation, a Northrop Grumman Company, is seeking candidates to perform maintenance and repair on Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG) turreted weapons systems.
		Tom Fintel's and General Taylor's remarks at the memorial service held in honor of the Vinnell employees lost in the terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
		Vinnell Corporation, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been awarded a $48 million contract to train the nucleus of a new Iraqi Army.
	www.vinnell.com /home.html (203 words)

	War profiteers: Vinnell Corp \| Radical Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		After the attack on the Vinnell compound in May 2003, an investigation insued to look into illegal arms sales by National Guard to al Quaeda (Finn).
		Vinnell has been rumored to be a cover for CIA activity in Saudi Arabia (Buncombe).
		Vinnell was owned by the Carlyle Group from 1992-1997.
	radicalreference.info /book/view/69 (408 words)

	www (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE [Lead story in the October 24, 2000 issue of "From The Wilderness"] by Michael C. Ruppert © Copyright 2000, Michael C. Ruppert and "From The Wilderness" Publications, P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, 818-788-8791, www.copvcia.com.
		One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.
		Today, the Vinnell Corporation (a TRW Company) is, along with the firms MPRI and DynCorp (FTW June, 00) one of the three pre-eminent private mercenary corporations in the world.
	www.popovashapka.com /bush-Cheney_drug_mecca.htm (3876 words)

	Vinnell < Northrop Grumman < Military < Corporations < : news feed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Vinnell Griffen, the mother of Blake Jermon, filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa and Camp Adventure in Black Hawk County District Court Wednesday.
		honor of the Vinnell employees lost in the terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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	www.schema-root.org /commerce/corporation/military/northrop_grumman/vinnell (363 words)

	How a U.S. Company Props Up the House of Saud \| BaltimoreChronicle.com
		Editor’s Note: This article, an investigation of the Vinnell Corporation, originally ran in the April 1996 issue of The Progressive magazine a few months after bombers attacked the private military contractor’s facilities in Saudi Arabia.
		Vinnell’s parent company, BDM [itself owned by the Carlyle Group when this article was written—Ed.], which bought the firm in 1993 to expand its market niche in military training services, already has a contract to provide 500 translators for NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia.
		The Cold War is over, and the culture of deception and covert dealing represented by the Vinnell Corporation’s role in Saudi Arabia should be brought to an end with it.
	www.baltimorechronicle.com /jun03_hartung.shtml (3102 words)

	World Policy Institute - Research Projects - May 13, 2003
		We were shocked and saddened to hear about the attacks in Saudi Arabia and the deaths of at least 91 people there, including ten Americans.
		But the fact that one of the targets was a U.S. private military corporation called Vinnell raises serious questions about the role of "executive mercenaries," and corporations who profit from war and instability.
		Included in this emergency email update are a few resources on Vinnell and private military corporations, including Bill Hartung's 1996 article "Mercenaries Inc.," written after the 1995 attack in Saudi Arabia (which also targeted the Vinnell Corporation).
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/arms/updates/051303.html (2592 words)

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