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Authors: Anthony Shaffer

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Ireland

ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)

Isler, Rod

Jedi Knights

“jingle trucks,”

John Wayne Pass

***** **** ***** ** *** **** ***** *

Joint Task Force 180.
See
Combined Joint Task Force 180

Jolie, Pierre

**** ****** ******* ********** ********* ******* ***

JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System)

Kabul

the boy and the bomb

Chicken Street

PTT improvised raid

Russian Road

Task Force Stratus Ivy

Kabul International Airport

***** **** ****** *** ******* **** **** **** **** **** ***

Kandahar

Karzai, Hamid

Keller, Bill

Task Force 1099

Key Personnel Program

Khowst

“kill, capture, or spy,”

*********** ****** ******

Kirkland, John (alias)

departure from Afghanistan

Ghaffari and

PTT improvised raid

Knowles, Mary (alias)

Korean War

Lambert, Geoffrey

Leadership Targeting Cell (LTC)

Libby, Lewis “Scooter,”

Liberia

Libya

Lippold, Kirk

LIWA (Land Information Warfare Activity)

logistical footprint, in Afghanistan

Chris Boston

Loudermilk, Tim

Bronze Star ceremony

Ghaffari and

intelligence information exchange

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Taliban videotape

“Love My Way” (song)

LTC (Leadership Targeting Cell)

M-4A3 rifles

M-11 rifles

MacArthur, Douglas

Massoud, Ahmad Shah

McChrystal, Stanley

background of

Task Force 1099

McFarlane, Ben

McMillan, Kent

Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare)

MH-6 Little Bird helicopters

Miami Vice
(TV show)

MIDB (Military Intelligence Database)

Bill Wilson

Bronze Star of

Ghaffari and

intelligence information exchange

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Task Force 180

Mr. Pink

**** ********* ******* ***

Mr. White

mobile phone, and PTT improvised raid

Susan Cane

morale calls

Moretti, Ray (alias)

Operation Mountain Viper

********* *** **** ******

Mountain Viper.
See
Operation Mountain Viper

Phil Trent

Nairobi embassy bombing

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
See
9/11 Commission

National Guard

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)

National Security Agency.
See
NSA

National Security Council (NSC)

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Navy SEALs

New York City

*** ******* ******* ****** *** *** *** *** *** ********* **** ******* **** **** **** ******* ***

night letters

“Night Stalkers” (160th Special Operations Aviation-Regiment)

NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency)

9/11 attacks (2001)

9/11 Commission

9/11 Report

Nixon, James

North Carolina National Guard

Northern Alliance

Northern Ireland

North Korea

*** ********* ******** ******** *** *** **** **** *** ************ *********** ********* ***** *** ********** ***** ******* ******

NSC (National Security Council)

NVGs (night-vision goggles)

Officer Candidate School (OCS)

Ohio Army National Guard

Juan Negro

Able Danger

Bronze Star ceremony

intelligence information exchange

introduction to

Operation Dark Heart

Task Force 1099

Olson, Eric

Omar, Mullah Mohammed

160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (“Night Stalkers”)

Operating Base Alpha

Operation Body Guard

********* ****** ****** ******

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Able Danger compared with

General Barno disaster

General Vines briefing

goals of

tipping point for

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Enduring Freedom

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Operation Mountain Viper

Deh Chopan op

intelligence information exchange

Shadow Matrix compared with

Operation Shadow Matrix

Operation Urgent Fury

Operation Winter Strike

Orion Scientific Systems

Pakistan border

black ops

Federally Administered Tribal Area

Pakistani-Indian cold war

Pashtu tribe

Patton, George

George Anderson

Pentagon Athletic Club

********* **** ******

Phillpott, Scott

polygraphs

Porta-Johns

Post Telephone and Telegraph Company (PTT)

Predator drones

Preisser, Eileen

PRTs (Provisional Reconstruction Teams)

Psychedelic Furs

Qaeda, al.
See
al Qaeda

******* ****** **** ******

Rahman, Omar Abdul

Rashid, Ahmed

Reagan, Ronald

Reese, Kate (alias)

Reichert, Major

Return of Forces in Germany (REFORGER)

Revolutionary Organization 17 November

Ring helicopter system

risk taking

Ritchie, John

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Rivera, Geraldo

******** ****** ****** ***

rules of engagement (ROE)

Rumsfeld, Donald H.

Russian Road

Russian tank graveyard

Allen Stein

Sanders, Hank

***** ** *** ***** *** ******** **

SAWs (Squad Automatic Weapons)

Schmidt, Dennis (father)

Schoonmaker, Peter

Able Danger

Ghaffari and

Schwarzkopf, Norman

SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility)

Seagal, Steven

security clearance

Senate Judiciary Committee

September 11 attacks (2001)

September 11 Commission.
See
9/11 Commission

75th Ranger Regiment

Shadow Matrix.
See
Operation Shadow Matrix

Shaffer, Anthony Alexander “Alex” (son)

Shaffer, John Robert (stepfather)

Shaffer, Karen (ex-wife, now Karen Denise Palya)

Shaffer, “Rina” (wife, Norina, nee MacNeil)

Shaffer, Ryan Austin (son)

Shaffer, Sylvia “Sue” (mother)

Shakespeare, William

“shaping attack,”

sharia

Shays, Christopher

Sheen, Martin

Shelton, Hugh

Shinseki, Eric

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