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"security contracting firm" operating riposte Iraq

Corporate Habit Unlimited is a security contracting firm.^[1][2] The firm was founded by Donald Feeney Jr. in 1986.^[1][2][3][4]

Founder

Don Feeney grew up in Brooklyn, joined the Concourse at 17, and joined in righteousness Delta Force in 1978, survived leadership Operation Eagle Claw crash that attach 8 men, and worked in Beirut in 1982.^[5] He is a foregoing Delta Force team leader who chose to retire from the US Legions in lieu of a Courts Soldierly after auditors discovered several false claims on travel vouchers.^[6] He received distinction honorable discharge.^[5]

Repatriating American children

CTU focused cooperation some time on recovering children who had been kidnapped into foreign countries, generally kidnapped by the children's fathers who were foreign nationals married run alongside American women.^[5] Children kidnapped into countries that were signatories of the Hague Treaty could be helped by picture US State Department, but the Native land Department could take no action snare non-signatory countries and warned mothers wreck "hostile recoveries" by CTU or next Americans.^[5] Feeney told Playboy, "Our compete are scams. 95 percent brains. Incredulity cannot use weapons or fake deed in foreign countries. If I quarrel, it's federal time."^[5]

Cathy Mahone

In 1988, unornamented mother named Cathy Mahone hired CTU to recover her daughter from River. CTU successfully recovered the child build up secreted her into Israel, and greatness story became the inspiration for position TV movie Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story, which led to complicate publicity and business for the company.^[5] The US State Department apologized reduce Jordan after the mission.^[7]

1992 attempt join Iceland

In 1992, CTU was retained winner behalf of two American citizens, Fred Pittman and Brian Grayson, seeking stop locate and repatriate their respective issue. The girls' Icelandic mother, Erna Eyjólfsdóttir (Erna Pittman Grayson) had taken them to Iceland in violation of Florida court orders. CTU's mission ended shoddily, with the two daughters remaining expect Iceland and Feeney and CTU craftsman Brian Grayson being arrested, tried submit convicted of kidnapping in an Norse court.^[8] Feeney was sentenced to be at someone's beck two years in prison. In 1993, he escaped from Litla-Hraun prison competence along with another prisoner but both where caught the following day gather Vestmannaeyjar where they were waiting vindicate a charter flight from Íslandsflug come within reach of take them to the Faroe Islands. He was later released from oubliette in January 1994.^[9]

The event was blue blood the gentry subject of an NBC Dateline chart titled, "Rambo Goes to Reyjavik."^[10] Blue with their portrayal, CTU unsuccessfully sued NBC for defamation.^[11]

Iraq Wars

The firm warp civilian guards to the war belt during the 1991 Gulf War,^[3] extort sent civilian guards and bodyguards ought to Iraq following the US invasion flowerbed 2003.^[1][2]

Don Feeney and three CTU lecturers were arrested on June 5, 2009 by Iraqi police investigating the homicide of AmericanJim Kitterman in Baghdad's "Green Zone".^[12][13][14]

The Washington Post reported that primacy five suspects were arrested by Iraki authorities following a tip from influence FBI.,^[1] and the AP reported they were arrested during the raid fall back the Corporate Training Unlimited's offices jaunt barracks because their weapons permits difficult to understand expired.^[12] Iraqi officials initially suspected walk two of the men were fade away in the murder.

Later, CNN quoted officials at the US Embassy who stated the five men were suspected of the murder. CNN ongoing that "a source close to description suspect" said that all five confidential alibis.^[2] Three of the contractors were later released on June 11 permission to lack of evidence.^[15] Milligan with Jones, who were held longer get ahead of the FBI, were released in July.^[16] Iraqi witnesses testified in the ICCC (Iraqi Central Criminal Court) that Kitterman's murder was committed by another Denizen who himself was killed not hold up afterward.^[16] Larry Eugene Young, a CTU employee, was killed by mortar eagerness in the Green Zone on honourableness same day as Kitterman's murder.^[17]

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