500 Days (102 page)

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,
520
–21

’Abd al-Hadi,
493

Abdel-Rahman, Omar,
293
,
550

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,
346
,
405
–7,
411
,
478
–79,
480
,
511

Abu Zubaydah,
103
–4,
119
,
121
,
562

     capture of,
240
,
248
,
249
–50,
277

     CIA’s interrogation of,
278
–81,
282
,
284
–85,
322
,
337
–38,
342
,
344
–45,
348
–49,
559

     FBI interrogation of,
253
–55,
277
–78,
279
–80,
345

     Padilla’s identification by,
280
,
304
,
305

     torture of,
280
,
284
–85,
321
,
337
–38,
342
,
348
–49,
559

     wounding of,
249
,
250
–51,
254
,
277

Adam, Ibrahym,
86
,
274

Addington, David,
58
–59,
507

     in Afghanistan targeting situation,
111
–12

     Bellinger e-mail criticism by,
80

     in congressional resolution drafting,
58
,
59
–62

     in detainee treatment policy formation,
224
,
225
,
227

     Guantanamo visit of,
367

     in Hamdi case,
259
,
310
,
314
,
408

     legal expertise of,
58
,
59

     in military commissions formation,
83
–84,
136
,
137
,
140
,
144
,
145
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
153
–54,
156
,
157
,
221
,
246
,
247

     and military interrogation policy,
456

     in Padilla case,
305
,
307

     in surveillance powers expansion,
95
,
96
,
105
,
106
–7

Afghanistan,
549

     Almalki’s connection to,
85
,
102
,
223
,
276

     al-Qaeda flight from,
151
,
158
,
172
,
173
,
175
,
176
,
178
–80

     al-Qaeda’s escape routes from,
178
,
180
–81,
184
–85,
189
,
248

     al-Qaeda’s harboring in,
4
–5,
41
,
50
,
74
,
220
,
242
,
243
,
340

     Blair’s visit to,
201
–2

     Bush’s interest in,
505

     CIA presence in,
56
,
60

     drought situation in,
74

     El-Maati’s time in,
102
,
533
–34

     factional fighting in,
8
,
14
–15,
41
–42,
64
,
73
,
87
,
162
,
202

     historic sites in,
82
,
92

     Muslims’ travel to,
533
–34

     political status of,
188
,
226
,
230

     suspicious White House call to,
118
,
123

     terrorist training camps in,
4
,
74
,
243
,
322
,
340
,
547

     transitional government in,
201
–2

     U.S. bounties offered in,
189

     
see also
Taliban

Afghanistan War:

     air campaign in,
82
,
113
–14,
139
,
141
,
143
,
146
–47,
149
,
158
,
168
,
173
,
175
,
176
,
179
–80,
242
,
243
,
253

     allies in,
73
,
78
,
80
,
81
,
87
,
90
,
91
,
114
,
184
,
240

     al-Qaeda intelligence gathered in,
163
,
242
–43

     al-Qaeda pursuit in,
162
,
173
,
175
,
176
,
178
–80

     bin Laden’s movements in,
150
–51,
158
–59,
162
,
172
,
177
,
179
,
180
,
183
–84,
186
,
250
,
543

     British involvement in,
114
,
137
,
142
,
180
,
202
,
240

     CIA’s role in,
56
,
64
,
73
,
78
,
86
–87,
137
,
138
,
143
,
146
,
149
,
162
,
169
,
171
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
180
,
184

     Defense Department’s role in,
56
,
78
,
81
,
82
,
111
,
137
,
146

     detainee treatment in,
175
,
213
–15,
217
–18,
219
–20,
224
–27,
229
–30,
232

     Eastern Alliance in,
162
,
177
,
178
,
179

     enemy bomb-making operation in,
296
,
297
,
298

     first U.S. casualty in,
171

     ground operations in,
138
–39,
140
–41,
143
,
147
,
149
,
151
,
158
,
159
,
166
–67,
175

     Guantanamo intelligence used in,
296
,
297
,
298

     horses in,
138
,
147

     initial predictions about,
65

     legal reviews in,
81
,
82
,
111
–12

     logistical problems in,
80
–81

     military’s role in,
56
,
64
,
73
,
74
,
78
,
79
,
80
,
81
,
87
,
137
,
146
,
149
,
159
,
173
,
177
,
180
,
181
,
184

     Northern Alliance’s role in,
56
,
64
,
73
,
87
,
114
,
137
–38,
139
,
143
,
146
,
147
,
149
,
151
,
158
,
159
,
162
,
166
,
167
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
174
–75,
186

     Operation Jawbreaker in,
87
,
138
,
143
,
162
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
184

     Pakistan’s role in,
73
,
80
,
91
,
177

     political uniqueness of,
225

     POW status in,
186
,
187
,
188
,
217
–18,
220
,
226
–27,
230
,
232

     Predator drones in,
64
,
73
,
141

     prisoners taken in,
167
–71,
174
–76,
186
,
189

     religious concerns in,
82

     Rumsfeld’s opinion of,
89
,
146
,
149
,
177

     strategy dispute in,
74
,
137
,
146
,
149
,
177
–78

     target selection in,
81
,
82
,
111
–12,
113
–14

     U.S. strategy in,
64
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
78
,
79
,
137
,
138
,
142

     warlords in,
143
,
150
,
151
,
162

Agency for International Development, U.S.,
74

Ahmed, Ruhal,
174
,
512

Air Force, U.S.,
455

     in Afghanistan War,
80

     SERE school of,
330

Air Force One:

     on 9/11,
30
,
34
,
38
–40

     as terrorist target,
91

Albania, al-Qaeda plot in,
7

Alcatraz,
195

Aleutian Islands,
196

Alfi, Hassan al-,
546

Algerian Six,
135
,
205
,
206
,
215
–16,
217
,
511
,
513

     
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

     bin Laden’s use of,
114
,
268

Allen, Belinda,
397
,
399

Allen & Company,
505

Almalki, Abdullah:

     Arar’s relationship to,
125
–26,
370
,
371
,
375
,
379
,
380
,
388
,
389
,
390
,
510
,
539