Dirty Wars (146 page)

University of Texas,
115

Unlawful combatants,
148

Urban, Mark,
162
,
166

US Agency for International Development (USAID),
33

US citizens

assassination strikes against,
314
–316,
325
–327,
367
–369,
369
–374,
391
–392,
505
,
517
,
518
(see
also
Awlaki, Abdulrahman; Awlaki, Anwar; Khan, Samir)

“Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen” (US Department of Justice),
514
–515

recruitment of, by al Shabab,
297

as suicide bombers,
271
,
396

US Congress.
See
Congress, US

US Department of Defense,
85
–86

US Department of Justice

and assassination ban,
6

and CIA interrogation and torture/techniques,
244
–245

“Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen,”
514
–515

and lethal authority,
6

US Department of Labor,
36

US Department of State,
29
,
409
,
508

US Department of the Treasury,
190
,
369

US election 2000,
36

US election 2008,
237
–238

US embassy, Kenya, bombing of,
6
,
125
–126

and Fazul,
119
,
196
–197,
198

US embassy, Nairobi,
120

bombing of,
198
,
199

US embassy, Sana'a, Yemen, bombing of,
235
–236

US embassy, Tanzania, bombing of,
6
,
125
–126

and Fazul,
119
,
196
–197,
198

US embassy bombings,
6
,
277

US intelligence

and Awlaki, Anwar, web sermons of,
233
,
234
–235,
238
,
239
–241
See also
FBI; CIA

US intelligence law, and gray areas,
91
–93

US military

and Gardez raid/massacre, version of,
338

kill list,
351

reorganization of,
12
–13

US military aid

to Somalia,
476

to Yemen,
64
–65,
236
,
322

US Naval War College,
102

US Navy SEAL Team
3
,
116

US Navy SEAL Team
4
,
116

US Navy SEAL Team
5
,
157

US Navy SEAL Team
6
,
50
–51,
98
,
103
,
108
–109,
115
,
116

and bin Laden raid and killing, at Abbottabad compound,
437
–441,
441
–450,
451
–452

and
Maersk Alabama,
hijacking of,
275
–276

US Navy SEALs

in Pakistan,
217
–218

and piracy industry in Somalia,
483

and prisoner deaths,
157

Special Naval Warfare Group I,
116

US-Yemen joint operations,
307

USAID.
See
US Agency for International Development

USS
Ashland,
230

USS
Bainbridge,
274
–275

USS
Boxer,
274
,
453

USS
Cole
bombing in Yemen,
16
,
61
,
62
–63,
65
–66,
130
–131,
466
,
467

and Quso, Fahd al-,
305
,
318

and Yemen and al Qaeda suspects,
132
–133,
210
,
213

USS
Halyburton,
274

USS
Mount Whitney,
79

USSOCOM,
114

Uzbekistan,
17
,
252

Van Tonder, Edgar,
480

“Vanilla” Special Forces,
50

Vibrant Fury,
179

Vickers, Michael,
282
,
356
–357,
436
,
441
,
491

Vietnam,
114

Vietor, Thomas,
508

Vinnell Corporation,
130

Volman, Daniel,
298

War

and presidential power,
3
–4

right to declare,
19
–20

War against Islam,
110

War Council,
24
,
29

War on terror,
27
,
30
,
47
,
54
,
113
,
193
–194,
320
,
384

War Powers Act,
9
–10

Wardak, Aziz Ahmad,
338

Warlords, Somali

and bin Laden,
198

brutality of,
193

and CIA alliance,
191
–195

hatred for,
195

US campaign to fund,
193
–194
See also
Dheere, Mohamed; Qanyare, Mohamed Afrah; Siad, Yusuf Mohammed

Warsame, Ahmed Abdulkadir,
454

and Awlaki, Anwar,
498
–499

capture of,
453

Waterboarding,
89
.
See also
Interrogation and torture/techniques

Waugh, Billy,
21

Wazir, Payo Jan,
218

Weaponized drones,
172
.
See also
Drone strikes

Weapons of mass destruction.
See
WMDs

Webb, Marshall B. “Brad,”
442

West, Tony,
370

West Point,
109

Whitman, Bryan,
295

Wild West Domains,
287

Wilkerson, Lawrence,
21
,
58

and Camp NAMA,
148

and Cheney, and presidential power, assumption of,
59

and Iraqi WMDs,
82

and JSOC, and abuse of power,
142
–143

and JSOC, secrecy of,
329

and SOFs,
93
,
94
,
95
,
99
–100

WMDs (weapons of mass destruction),
417

and Iraq,
15
,
28
–29,
82
,
139
,
150

Wolf, Frank,
72

Wolf Brigade.
See
Special Police Commando Unit

Wolfowitz, Paul

and Bremer,
110

and Cheney, defense plan of,
7
–8

and drone strikes, in Yemen,
77

and Iraq and 9/11-Saddam and al Qaeda connection,
14
–15,
82
,
84

and JSOC, and global manhunt,
170

and 9/11 attacks, exploitation of,
19

and Somalia,
123

and Steele,
164

Woodward, Bob,
13
–14

World Bank,
64

World Cup fan bombings, in Uganda,
395

Wright, Lawrence,
63

Wuhayshi, Nasir al- (aka Abu Basir),
210
,
230
–231,
306
,
314
,
315
,
379
,
467

and AQAP,
255

and Awlaki, Anwar,
381

as detainee at Guantánamo,
254

and Saleh, Ali Abdullah,
213

Wyden, Ron,
505

Yarmad, Merza Mohammed,
344

Yazeed, Abu,
377

Yemen,
32
–33

and al Qaeda, recruitment in,
358

and al Qaeda, resurgence of,
130
–133

al Qaeda in,
62
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
122
,
210
–214,
235
–237,
255
–256,
257
,
268
,
269
,
304
–305

AQAP in,
258
–260,
262
–263,
269
,
281
,
284
,
298
,
323
–324,
386
–389

and Arab Spring,
430
–432

and Awlaki, Anwar, and US pressure to arrest,
234
–235

and Awlaki, Anwar, indictment against,
391

and Awlaki, Anwar, surveillance of,
184
–185,
187

CIA in,
387
–388

cruise missile attacks in,
303
–313,
358
–359,
361
,
376
,
385
,
500

drone strikes in,
75
–80,
324
,
465
,
520
–521

and Houthi rebellion, al Qaeda and Saudi support for,
131
–132

JSOC in,
284
,
303
–304,
307
–309,
321
,
322
,
387
–389

Khan, Samir, in,
290
–291

and mujahedeen-Soviet Afghan war,
62

prison break,
210
–212

and public responsibility for US strikes,
357

and Saudi Arabia, collusion between,
254
–255

SOFs in, expansion of,
261
–263

suicide bombers/bombings in,
230
–231,
308

targeted killings/drone strikes in,
284
,
303
–304,
307
–309,
324
,
356
–357 (
see also
Gardez raid/massacre)

and terrorist rehabilitation program,
132
,
256
,
257
,
260

US aid/assistance to,
64
–65,
236
,
322
,
386

as US counterterrorism focus,
285
–287

and US drone strikes as terrorism,
466

US embassy in, bombing of,
235
–236

US flyover rights in,
262

US military trainers in,
64
–65,
66

US role in, downplay of,
321
–324

and US spy drone Scan Eagle,
230

US unilateral campaign in,
280
–281

USS
Cole
bombing in,
16
,
61
,
62
–63,
65
–66,
130
–131,
210
,
213

and Yemeni and al Qaeda suspects, treatment of,
132
–133

and Yemeni tribal system, and AQAP,
465
–467

and Zinjibar siege,
460
–465

Yemen Air Force, Special Operations Forces Command training missions with,
323

Yemen Special Operations, and AQAP,
387
–389

Yoo, John,
24

Yousef, Ramzi,
27

Yusuf, Mohammed,
206

Yusufzai, Rahimullah,
177

Zabara, Mullah.
See
Abdulsalam, Ali Abdullah

Zaeef, Mullah Abdul Salem,
348

Zahir, Mohammed Saranwal,
335

Zardari, Asif Ali,
216
,
422
–423,
458

Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-,
112
,
143
–144,
157
,
289
,
290

and Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal,
163

“Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slaughters an American,”
163

and Berg, execution of,
163
–164

hunt for,
166

and Iraq and 9/11-Saddam and al Qaeda connection,
113

and Iraqi Shiite and Sunni Muslims, targeting of,
178
–179

as JSOC number one target,
113

and JSOC targeted assassination/strike,
179

and network funding,
164

Zawahiri, Ayman al-,
23
,
62
,
223
,
362
,
379
,
412
,
434

and Fazul,
487

hunt for,
175

and Zarqawi, warning to,
178
–179

Zelin, Aaron,
377
,
378
,
381

Zenawi, Meles,
207
,
225

Zero Dark Thirty,
452

Zindani, Abdul Majeed al-,
36
,
68
,
306

Zinjibar, Yemen, siege,
460
–465

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