http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/02/28/papers_detail_a_dark_side/?page=2
From April to September 2003, he oversaw training of Iraqi police in Balad, a restive Sunni area about 70 miles outside Baghdad.
O'Hare also led military security efforts at Logan after 9/11 and in Boston during the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
O'Hare was awarded two Bronze Stars for service in Iraq and Afghanistan and received Army medals for good conduct, meritorious service, and achievement. ''His record on the military side speaks very highly of him," Danielson said.
O'Hare has been a member of the Massachusetts State Police for 19 years, last assigned to the Holden barracks.
''I can say without reservation that Brian O'Hare has for 19 years been a trooper that people can be proud of," said Timothy M. Burke, a Needham lawyer who routinely represents Massachusetts State Police troopers and has known O'Hare nearly 20 years.
But yesterday authorities described a more disturbing side of O'Hare.
He was ensnared in the FBI sting when he joined the America Online chat room ''SCHOOLBOIS SHOWERSM4." There, he introduced himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old male, saying he was ''5-10 180 bro/blu . . . masc guy . . . hairy chest," according to court documents.