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Democracy Now!
March 22, 2018
No, it was a crime. It was in defiance of international law, and it was defined over the last 15 years by war crimes, by widespread torture, by human rights abuses, by massacres—at Haditha, at Mahmudiyah, at Balad. Recently I interviewed a general, retired General Mark Kimmitt, who was a spokesman forÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 9, 2018
"Would we like a do-over, of course we would," says Mark Kimmitt, retired US Brigadier General who served as deputy director of operations and chief military spokesman in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. While Kimmitt accepts the US "did get some things wrong" in Iraq, he says his country's military has nothing toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
January 29, 2018
Is it time the US apologised for invading Iraq? Fifteen years since the invasion of Iraq, we ask retired US Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt about war crimes and the war's legacy. Iraq, US & Canada, United StatesÃâà...
CNBC
August 22, 2017
Former Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley tells CNBC that Trump came to the right decision on Afghanistan. "The most stunning aspect of the president's speech was the acknowledgment that 16 years into this war ... the prospect of a political negotiation is still a long-term challenge," he says. RetiredÃâà...
Financial Tribune
August 20, 2017
Retired US General Mark Kimmitt said that while retaking Tal Afar would be an “important milestone”, it would not mean final days for IS. “We're not looking at the final days of IS, either in Iraq or in Syria, or outside of those countries,” Kimmitt told Al Jazeera. “It still remains a very, very potent force, not only inÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
August 19, 2017
Retired US General Mark Kimmitt said that while retaking Tal Afar would be an "important milestone", it would not mean final days for ISIL. "We're not looking at the final days of ISIS, either in Iraq or in Syria, or outside of those countries," Kimmitt told Al Jazeera. "It still remains a very, very potent force, notÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
June 26, 2017
Mark Kimmitt will speak. The event will take place in the White Room. See here for more information or to RSVP. Wednesday, June 28 at 10:00 am: The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold an open hearing on Russian Intervention in European Elections. Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Ambassador VeskoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 26, 2017
Mark Kimmitt, a former US assistant secretary for political and military affairs, told Al Jazeera that while the deaths of civilians were unfortunate, such "incidents happen in combat". He added: "Coalition forces are doing everything they can, along with Iraqi security forces, to minimise civilian casualties.
Heavy.com
February 14, 2017
... and he has five children: three sons and two daughters, according to his profile on the American Council on Germany's website. The Kimmitt family resides in Arlington, Virginia. Robert's brother is Mark Kimmitt, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs for George W. Bush, serving from 2008 toÃâà...
New York Times
October 20, 2016
“Strategic surprise is rarely accomplished, but tactical surprise — the how and where of low-level attacks — is kept secret,” said Mark Kimmitt, a retired one-star Army general and former senior Pentagon official. “Mr. Trump does not seem to understand this critical distinction between strategy and tactics.”.
The Independent
October 6, 2016
Only a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the American deputy director of military operations in Iraq, was boasting that the US Marines in Fallujah were encountering fewer security problems and were “quite pleased with how they are moving progressively forward.” Even more ironic was GeneralÃâà...
The Independent
October 6, 2016
Only a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the American deputy director of military operations in Iraq, was boasting that the US Marines in Fallujah were encountering fewer security problems and were “quite pleased with how they are moving progressively forward.” Even more ironic was GeneralÃâà...
CNN
June 24, 2015
Mark Kimmitt, said the size of the armor deployment Carter announced Tuesday showed it was more symbolic than strategic. During the Cold War, the United States had the same amount of armor, a brigade, stationed in just one small part of what was then West Germany, said Kimmitt, the former militaryÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 8, 2014
General Mark Kimmitt was a US soldier from central casting: ramrod straight, square of jaw and with a uniform as neatly creased as the side parting in his greying hair. As the senior spokesman for the US military in Iraq in 2004, he was always tirelessly upbeat, and never short of a positive soundbite as USÃâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Former deputy director of operations in Iraq Mark Kimmitt stipulated that the US-led invasion of Iraq had, in fact, helped create Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).No weapons of mass destruction were found but Iraq by the time had fallen to the militants and terrorist organisations which resulted in the massÃâà...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
JS: That's Mehdi Hasan questioning General Mark Kimmitt on his television program. Mehdi, your thoughts on 15 years removed from the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Yeah, I mean, these anniversaries sadly they come and go, I can't believe it's been 15 years, 15 years of a horror show, 15 years,Ãâà...
Money & Power
December 31, 1999
Mark Kimmitt adamantly insisted no evidence was found that a wedding was taking place. But The Associated Press released a video showing a series of scenes from the wedding celebration. Other AP footage following the attack showed destroyed tents, broken musical instruments, shattered pots andÃâà...
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