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16
Ibid.
17
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, interview, June 29, 2009.
18
Ibid.
19
Ellen Nakashima, “Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web Site Illustrates Need for Clearer Cyberwar Policies,”
Washington Post
, March 19, 2010.
20
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Report to the President of the United States,
March 31, 2005.
21
Marjorie Cohn, “Assassination and Display in Iraq: The Killings of Uday and Qusai Hussein in International Law,”
Jurist
, July 29, 2003.
22
James Risen, “US to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban,”
New York Times
, August 9, 2009.
23
Alan Dershowitz, “Double Standard Watch: Targeted Killings OK for US but Not for Israel,”
Jerusalem Post,
August 16, 2009.
24
Anatol Lieven, “Five Myths About Pakistan,”
Washington Post
, June 3, 2010.
25
“Pakistan Backed Haqqani Attack on Kabul: Mike Mullen,” BBC, September 22, 2011.
26
Dexter Filkins, “Right at the Edge,”
New York Times
, September 7, 2008.
27
Ibid.
28
Ibid.
29
Akbar Zaidi,
Pakistan’s Roller-Coaster Economy: Tax Evasion Stifles Growth,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Policy Brief 88, September 2010.
30
Filkins, “Right at the Edge.”
31
Transparency International,
Corruption Perceptions Index 2010.
32
Zalmay Khalilzad, “Get Tough on Pakistan,”
New York Times
, October 19, 2010.
33
Sean Naylor, “JSOC Task Force Battles Haqqani Militants,”
Army Times
, September 14, 2010.
34
Ibid.
35
Sean Naylor, “More Than Door Kickers,”
Armed Forces Journal
, March 2006.
36
Michele Malvesti,
To Serve the Nation: US Special Operations Forces in an Era of Persistent Conflict,
Center for a New American Strategy, June 2010, 32.
37
Ibid.
39
Dana Priest, “US Military Teams, Intelligence Deeply Involved in Aiding Yemen on Strikes,”
Washington Post
, January 27, 2010.
40
Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith, “The Best Trial Option for KSM: Nothing,”
Washington Post
, March 19, 2010.
41
William Fisher, “Wittes, Goldsmith, and KSM: Absurd, Cynical,”
Huffington Post
, March 22, 2010,
www.huffingtonpost.com/william-fisher/wittes-goldsmith-and-ksm_b_508175.html
.
42
New York University Center on Law and Security,
Terrorist Trial Report Card: September 11, 2001–September 11, 2009,
www.lawandsecurity.org/Portals/0/documents/02_TTRCFinalJan142.pdf
.
43
Benjamin Wittes, “The Right Way to Try KSM,”
Washington Post
, October 28, 2010.
44
Catherine Philip, “Faisal Shahzad’s Basic Errors Led Police to His Last-Minute Arrest,”
Times of London
, May 6, 2010.
45
Jane Jacobs,
The Death and Life of Great American Cities,
Modern Library ed. (New York: Random House, 1993), 40.
46
Michael Schmidt, “T-Shirt Vendor Takes on New Persona: Reluctant Hero of Times Square,”
New York Times
, May 2, 2010.
47
Jerry Markon, “FBI Foils Elaborate Bomb Plot in Oregon,”
Washington Post
, November 28, 2010.
48
“Islam Is Peace,” Says President. Remarks by the president at Islamic Center of Washington, DC, September 17, 2001,
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917–11.html
.
49
Mike Carter, “Ressam Gets 22 Years for Millennium Bomb Plot,”
Seattle Times
, December 3, 2008.
50
Chris Gourlay and Jonathan Culvert, “Al-Qaeda Kingpin: I Trained 9/11 Hijackers,”
Times of London
, November 25, 2007; US Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism 2005,
www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/c17689.htm
.
51
John Brennan, “Opposing View: ‘We Need No Lectures,’”
USA Today
, February 9, 2010.
52
Thomas Jefferson and H. A. Washington, eds.,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports Messages, Addresses, and other Writings, Official and Private
(New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859), 159.
APPENDICES
 
1
“‘Airliners Plot’: The Allegations,”
BBC News
, April 3, 2008.
2
Richard Edwards, Gordon Rayner, and Duncan Gardham, “Terror Suspects ‘Planned Nuclear Station Strike,’”
Telegraph,
April 4, 2008.
INDEX
 
 
Abbottabad, Pakistan
 
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in
 
Abdel-Rahman, Omar (“The Blind Sheik”)
 
Abdullah II, King of Jordan
 
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk
 
Abidin, Muhammad Husayn, al- (Abu Zubaydah)
 
Abu Amina,
see
Rahman, Shaykh Abd al-
 
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.
see
Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed al-
 
Abu Faraj al-Libi.
see
Uzayti, Mustafa Muhammad al-
 
Abu Hafs al-Masri.
see
Atef, Mohammad
 
Abu Hamza Rabia.
see
Shuayb, Muhammad Rabia Abdul Halim
 
Abu Layth al-Libi.
see
Rufayi, Ali Ammar Ashur al-
 
Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi.
see
Maqdisi, Abu Muhammad Asem al-
 
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
see
Khalayleh, Ahmad Fadil Nazal Al-
 
Abu Salim prison
 
Abu Talha.
see
Khan, Muhammad Naeem Noor
 
Abu Ubaydah al-Masri
 
Abu Umar al-Baghdadi.
see
Zawi, Hamid Daoud Muhammad Khalil al-
 
Abu Zubaydah.
see
Abidin, Muhammad Husayn, al-
 
Adams, John
 
Adams, John Quincy
 
Adel, Saif al-
 
Afghanistan
 
al-Qaeda in
 
civil war, 1991
 
Northern Alliance (anti-Taliban group)
 
Pakistan border
 
Soviet occupation
 
Taliban.
see
Taliban
 
U.S. invasion of
 
U.S. relations with
 
AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command)
 
Afzali, Imam Ahmad Wais
 
Ahmedzay, Zarein
 
Ain Zara prison
 
Air Force 24th Special Tactics Squadron
 
Air Force Reserve JAG Corps
 
Air Force’s School of Advanced Airpower Studies
 
Al-Aksari Golden Dome shrine, Samarra
 
Albania, response to Powell’s UN address
 
Alec Station, Central Intelligence Agency
 
Alfred P. Murrah federal building
 
Algeria
 
Al-Hussein Ben Ali mosque
 
Ali, Abdulla Ahmed
 
Al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Fadil Nazal (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi).
see
Zarqawi, Abu Musab
 
Allen, George
 
Al-Qaeda
 
before 9/11
 
in Afghanistan
 
appeal, to recruits
 
attacks USS
Cole
.
see
USS
Cole
attacked
 
attempts on Pervez Musharraf
 
bombs U.S. Embassies.
see
Terrorist attacks, U.S. embassies
 
and the CIA
 
communication systems
 
couriers
 
double agent
 
funding
 
and Hamas
 
in Iran
 
and Iraq
 
in Kenya
 
and KSM
 
in London
 
millennium plot
 
nuclear weapons
 
organization
 
and other groups
 
in Pakistan
 
propaganda videos
 
religious training
 
security
 
in Somalia
 
and the Taliban
 
training camps
 
undermining appeal of
 
uranium procurement
 
weapons training
 
widespread nature of
 
and WMDs
 
in Yemen
 
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) (Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad Fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (Organization of Jihad’s Base in the Country of the Two Rivers (QJBR)
 
online political front
 
safe houses raided
 
after Zarqawi
 
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
 
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY)
 
American Airlines Flight
 
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
 
Amina, Abu (Shaykh Abd al-Rahman)
 
Amnesty International
 
Ansar al-Islam/Ansar al-Sunnah (Kurdish terrorist organization)
 
Anthrax
 
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
 
Aqrab, al-(Scorpion) detention center, Egypt
 
Arcadia 8 military raid
 
Armed Services Committee
 
Armitage, Richard
 
Army Rangers
 
Army Times
 
Ashcroft, John
 
Assassinations, targeted.
see
Killings, targeted
 
Atef, Mohammad (Abu Hafs al-Masri)
 
Atiyah, Abd al-Rahman
 
Atta, Muhammad
 
Aum Shinrikiyo
 
Aurora, Colorado
 
Authorization of Military Force (AUMF)
 
Aviation Week
magazine
 
Azzam, Abdullah
 
Baath Party
 
Baer, Robert
 
Baghdadi, Abu Umar al- (Zawi, Hamid Daoud Muhammad Khalil al-)
 
Bagram air base
 
Baluchi, Ammar al-
 

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