75 Andrew Alderson, “British Terror Mastermind Rashid Rauf ‘Killed in US Missile Strike,’” Telegraph , November 22, 2008; “UK Militant ‘Killed in Pakistan,’” BBC, November 22, 2008.
76 “Airline Liquid Bomb Plotters Jailed for 108 Years for Planning ‘Most Wicked Crime in Britain’s History,’” Daily Mail , September 14, 2009.
77 “Three Guilty of Airline Bomb Plot,” BBC News , September 7, 2009.
78 “Airline Liquid Bomb Plotters Jailed for 108 Years.”
79 David Byers, “Missionary Mohammed Gulzar ‘Was Airline Terror Plot Ringleader,’” Times of London , April 7, 2008.
8 James Meek, “CIA Missile Strike Kills Key Qaeda Thug,” Daily News , December 4, 2005.
9 Sarah Baxter, “Al-Qaeda Chief Killed in Pakistan,” Sunday Times (London) , December 4, 2005.
10 Paul Watson and Ken Silverstein, “Senior Leader of Al-Qaeda Is Killed in Blast,” Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2005; Zeeshan Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed: Blow to Al-Qaeda as Blast Claims Its No. 3,” Daily Telegraph (Sydney ), December 5, 2005; Meek, “CIA Missile Strike Kills Key Qaeda Thug.”
11 “Questions Surround al-Qaeda Leader’s Death,” Voice of America News, December 6, 2005.
12 Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander”; “Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?” CNN, December 4, 2005.
13 Sarah Baxter, “Al-Qaeda Chief Killed in Pakistan,” Sunday Times (London), December 4, 2005; “Sources Say Key Al-Qaeda Operative in Pakistan Still Alive: Paper,” Pakistan Observer /BBC Monitoring South Asia, December 8, 2005; “Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?”; “Senior Leader of Al-Qaeda Is Killed in Blast.”
14 Zulfiqar Ali and Paul Watson, “Pakistani Journalist Abducted from Northern Tribal Area ,” Los Angeles Times , December 8, 2005.
15 Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander.”
16 Zeeshan Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed: Blow to Al-Qaeda as Blast Claims Its No. 3,” Daily Telegraph , December 5, 2005; Munir Ahmad, “Al-Qaeda Commander Killed in Pakistan,” Independent, December 4, 2005; Gretchen Peters, “Drone Said to Have Killed Al-Qaeda’s No. 3,” Christian Science Monitor , December 5, 2005.
17 “Pakistani Tribe Shows US-Marked Missile They Claim Killed Two Boys,” Irish Times , December 5, 2005; Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander,” Washington Post, December 4, 2005; Ali and Watson, “Pakistani Journalist Abducted”; Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed.”
18 Kim Pilling, “British Muslim Is Convicted of Being Mastermind for al-Qa’ida: Mancunian Was So Vital He Recruited Another Man to Carry Incriminating Files,” Independent (London), December 19, 2008; Russell Jenkins, “Diaries in Invisible Ink Help to Convict British Muslim Intent on Mass Murder,” Times (London) , December 19, 2008.
31 “Interview with Stephen Hadley; Interview with Hoshyar Zebari,” CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer , December 4, 2005; “Al-Qa’ida Boss Dead, Insists Pakistan,” Associated Press, December 6, 2005.
32 Peters, “Violence Grows in Pakistan’s Tribal Zone.”
33 Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander”; Rana Jawad, “Al-Libi, the ‘Face of Al-Qaeda,’” Agence France Press, February 1, 2008; “Senior al-Qaeda Member Reported Dead,” CNN, January 31, 2008.
34 DCI Michael McConnell, “Hearing of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 7, 2008.
36 US Air Force, “Air Force’s Hunter-Killer UAV Now Flying in Afghanistan,” Press Release, October 11, 2007.
37 US Air Force, Factsheet: MQ-1 Predator; and Factsheet: MQ-9 Reaper.
38 “Reaper Scores Insurgent Kill in Afghanistan,” Air Force Times , October 29, 2007.
39 Jeremy Page, “Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base in Pakistan,” Times of London , February 19, 2009; Tom Coghlan, Zahid Hussain, and Jeremy Page, “Secrecy and Denial As Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants,” Times of London, February 17, 2009.
40 Imtiaz Ali and Massoud Ansari, “Pakistan Fury as CIA Air Strike on Village Kills 18,” Telegraph , January 15, 2006.
42 Ali and Ansari, “Pakistan Fury”; Josh Meyer, “CIA Expands Use of Drones in Terror War,” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2006; Craig Whitlock, “The New Al-Qaeda Central,” Washington Post , September 9, 2007.
43 Meyer, “CIA Expands Use of Drones in Terror War”; Daniel Byman, “Targeted Killing, American-Style,” Los Angeles Times , January 20, 2006; Griff Witte and Kamran Khan, “Attacks Strain Efforts on Terror,” Washington Post, January 23, 2006.
44 Silvestre Reyes, “Hearing of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 7, 2008; John D. Rockefeller, “Hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 5, 2008.
45 Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock, “Al-Qaeda Commander Moved Freely in Pakistan; Libyan Killed Last Week Operated Openly,” Washington Post , February 4, 2008.