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In the summer of 2002, when Hamid Karzai became president of Afghanistan’s interim government, John Zinn was there as part of his security detail. A year later, as the dust settled in Iraq from the U.S.-led Shock and Awe campaign, John was there sweeping the country for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). When L. Paul Bremer became, in effect, the interim chief executive of Iraq, John was on hand, guarding him as well.
Those years were a terrifying time for Jackie. It seemed to her that every night there was news about yet another roadside bomb in the Middle East and all she could do was hope John was nowhere near it. She was right to be terrified because there were in fact times when he was indeed quite near the action.
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This is Part II of a four-part series on Nay SEAL John Zinn. Click here for Part I.
In the spring of 2000, John Zinn asked his lawyer father, Michael, to help him form his own corporation: a restaurant that would include a gigantic man-made wave so that people could come to the restaurant and surf while they were there. John also became interested in buying the rights to a British-made amphibious vehicle and distributing it here in the States. He also tried his hand at stockbroking. It eventually became a running joke at Michael’s office: John calling and yet again changing his articles of incorporation to fit his latest new idea. Over the next few years, that corporation’s name would change six times and there were dozens of other business ideas that never even made it to the corporate-naming stage. Nothing quite came together. To a casual observer, John’s serial-entrepreneur efforts might have seemed no more than a string of harebrained ideas that would never