500 Days (102 page)
Authors: Kurt Eichenwald
517
: Details of Ivins’s trip to the library from the second and third Arredondo affidavits.
517
: Quotes from the note left for Ivins by his wife, his reply, and her discovery of him unconscious from Alston, “Supplemental Report,” entry of August 19, 2008.
518
: Details of Ivins’s emergency treatment and subsequent death from EMS Patient Care Report, Ambulance 18, Notes of Paramedic Jonathan Newman, July 27, 2008; Medical records from Frederick Memorial Hospital, first entry by Brooke Geranis at 1:55
A.M.
on July 27, 2008. Also see Alston, “Supplemental Report,” September 9, 2008; and Arredondo affidavits.
519
–
520
: Some details of the conversation between Piro and Saddam from U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baghdad Operations Center, a report by Piro on the casual conversation with Saddam, May 13, 2004. Also see several reports from U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baghdad Operations Center: Interview Session No. 1, February 7, 2004; Interview Session No. 10, February 27, 2004; and Interview Session No. 12, March 5, 2004.
520
–
522
: Some details of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden from Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Killing of Osama Bin Laden, May 2, 2011; official transcript, “Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden,” May 2, 2011; Nicholas Schmidle, “Getting Bin Laden,”
New Yorker,
August 8, 2011; Mark Thompson, “Inside the Osama Bin Laden Strike: How America Got Its Man,”
Time,
May 3, 2011; Associated Press, “The Man Who Hunted Osama Bin Laden,” July 5, 2011; Jonathan Landy, “Bin Laden Raid Years in the Making, Minutes in Execution,” McClatchy Newspapers, May 2, 2011; and Caren Bohan, Mark Hosenball, Tabassum Zakaria, and Missy Ryan, “The Kill Plan,” Reuters, May 2011.
Page numbers beginning with 525 refer to endnotes.
Abbottabad, Pakistan,
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–21
’Abd al-Hadi,
493
Abdullah, Abdullah Ahmed,
254
Abdul Qadoos, Ahmed,
483
Abou El Fadl, Khaled,
534
Abu Abdullah,
219
Abu al-Hasnat,
249
Abu al-Libi,
549
Abu Hafs,
see
Atef, Mohammed
Abu Maali,
119
Abu Omar,
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,
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–7,
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–79,
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,
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Abu Zubaydah,
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–4,
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,
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CIA’s interrogation of,
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–49,
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FBI interrogation of,
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–55,
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–78,
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–80,
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Padilla’s identification by,
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,
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,
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torture of,
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,
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–85,
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–38,
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,
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–49,
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wounding of,
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,
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–51,
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,
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in Afghanistan targeting situation,
111
–12
Bellinger e-mail criticism by,
80
in congressional resolution drafting,
58
,
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–62
in detainee treatment policy formation,
224
,
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,
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Guantanamo visit of,
367
in military commissions formation,
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–84,
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–54,
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and military interrogation policy,
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in surveillance powers expansion,
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–7
Afghanistan,
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Almalki’s connection to,
85
,
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,
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,
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al-Qaeda flight from,
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–80
al-Qaeda’s escape routes from,
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–85,
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,
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al-Qaeda’s harboring in,
4
–5,
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,
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Blair’s visit to,
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–2
Bush’s interest in,
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drought situation in,
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factional fighting in,
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–15,
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–42,
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,
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Muslims’ travel to,
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–34
political status of,
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,
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,
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suspicious White House call to,
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,
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terrorist training camps in,
4
,
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,
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,
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,
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transitional government in,
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–2
U.S. bounties offered in,
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see also
Taliban
Afghanistan War:
air campaign in,
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,
113
–14,
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–47,
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–80,
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allies in,
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al-Qaeda intelligence gathered in,
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–43
al-Qaeda pursuit in,
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–80
bin Laden’s movements in,
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–51,
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–59,
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–84,
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British involvement in,
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CIA’s role in,
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Defense Department’s role in,
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,
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,
111
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137
,
146
detainee treatment in,
175
,
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–15,
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–27,
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–30,
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Eastern Alliance in,
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,
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,
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,
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enemy bomb-making operation in,
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,
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,
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first U.S. casualty in,
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ground operations in,
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–39,
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–41,
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,
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–67,
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Guantanamo intelligence used in,
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,
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initial predictions about,
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logistical problems in,
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–81
military’s role in,
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Northern Alliance’s role in,
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–75,
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Operation Jawbreaker in,
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Pakistan’s role in,
73
,
80
,
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,
177
political uniqueness of,
225
POW status in,
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,
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,
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,
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–18,
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–27,
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,
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prisoners taken in,
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–71,
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–76,
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,
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religious concerns in,
82
Rumsfeld’s opinion of,
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,
146
,
149
,
177
strategy dispute in,
74
,
137
,
146
,
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,
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–78
target selection in,
81
,
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,
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–12,
113
–14
U.S. strategy in,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Agency for International Development, U.S.,
74
Air Force, U.S.,
455
in Afghanistan War,
80
SERE school of,
330
Air Force One:
as terrorist target,
91
Albania, al-Qaeda plot in,
7
Alcatraz,
195
Aleutian Islands,
196
Alfi, Hassan al-,
546
Algerian Six,
135
,
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,
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,
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–16,
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,
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,
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see also
Boumediene, Lakhdar
Ali, Hazrat,
162
Ali, Nadir,
169
Ali Riza, Shaha,
506
al-Jam’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah,
193
Al Jazeera:
al-Qaeda’s 9/11 admission to,
257
–58,
267
–69,
308
–9
Allen & Company,
505
Almalki, Abdullah:
Arar’s relationship to,
125
–26,
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