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INDEX

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Abbas, Abu, 54

Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 232, 304, 305

Abizaid, John

Damadola raid and, 135

Ethiopian invasion of Somalia and, 148–49

Abu Nidal organization, 57

Abu Salim prison, 254

Achille Lauro
(cruise ship) hijacking, 54

Addington, David, 9

Adkins, Jim, 53

Afghanistan, 51, 112

CIA–ISI cooperation during Soviet occupation of, 27

Kayani’s thesis on controlling Afghanistan during occupation, 112–13

Soviet invasion and occupation of, 48

Afghanistan War, 5, 63, 138, 192–94, 197, 219, 229, 258, 299, 315

competition and mistrust between CIA and Pentagon in, 17–19

Defense Department dependence on CIA at start of, 67–68

initial strategy of CIA in late 2001, 12–13, 32–33

Khairkhwa’s pursuit and capture, 21–23

Pakistan’s efforts to get Omar to give up bin Laden, 31–32

Taliban pushed out of Afghan cities, 20

Afghan Resistance Movement (ARM), 112–13

AfPax Insider project, 194–99

Afrah, Mohamed Qanyare, 137

Afridi, Shakil

arrest and sentencing of, 295–97

as CIA source, 279–84, 286

Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ), 251–52

Ahmed, Abdullahi Yusuf, 144, 146–47

Ahmed, Ibrahim Saeed.
See
al-Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed

Ahmed, Mahmud, 28–29, 32, 33

Ahmed, Sharif Sheikh, 249

Ahmed, Shirwa, 151

Alec Station (bin Laden–hunting unit), 91, 163, 319

Ali, Sheikh Hassan Yaqub, 251

Al Jazeera, 180, 231

Allen, Charles E., 88, 90, 91, 92, 98

Allen, John, 294

Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), 137–38, 141–43

al Qaeda, 12–13, 14, 81

Arab Spring and, 255

Haqqani and, 35

Kenya and Tanzania bombings by, 27

legal authority for Pentagon to wage war against, 77

in North and East Africa, 138–39, 246

in Pakistan, 37–38, 265–66, 269–72

SOCOM’s lack of actionable intelligence on, 66–67

in Somalia, 140–41

in Yemen, 138–39

al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, 229–30

al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), 139

al-Awlaki tracked and killed in Yemen, 302–10

bin Nayef assassination attempt by, 213–16, 229, 232

U.S. covert actions in Yemen against, 229–34

al Qaeda Network Execute Order, 128–29

al Shabaab, 139–40, 142, 147–48, 151, 241, 242, 243, 245–47, 249–52

American Civil Liberties Union, 222–23, 312–13

Andrews, Robert, 65–66, 67, 68, 75, 78, 178–79

Angleton, James, 92, 153

Arab Spring, 252–55, 316

Archangel, 239

Armitage, Richard, 28–29, 33

Army.
See
Delta Force; Green Berets; Rangers

Ashby, Turner, 145

al-Asiri, Abdullah, 213–16

al-Asiri, Ibrahim, 215, 232

assassinations, 43–46

Blackwater-phase of CIA killing program, 121–26

Ford’s banning of, 46, 88, 300

Lebanese hit men, training of, 54–55

legal opinions justifying Obama’s targeted-killing operations, 300–1

by Predator drone strikes (
See
Predator drones)

targeted-killing program, 217–20, 221, 226–28, 300–1, 312–15

atmospherics, 195

Aurakzai, Ali Jan, 36–38, 170–71

Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), 77

Aweys, Hasan Dahir, 139, 140, 142

al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 310–12

al-Awlaki, Anwar, 302–10, 312

background of, 302–4

drone hunt for and strike on, 306–10

legal justification for killing of, 304–5

al-Awlaki, Nasser, 302, 303, 312

Ayro, Aden Hashi Farah, 140, 150

Bagh, Mangal, 280–81

Bajaur operation, 115–17, 132

Balkan War, 60–61, 90–91

Ballarin, Michele, 143–47, 238–42, 247–53

building ties to Sufi groups in North and East Africa, 248, 250–52

CIA turns down services of, 239–40

in Mali, 325–26

Pentagon contract awarded to, 240–41

plot to assassinate al Shabaab leaders, 249–50

Somali piracy and, 238–39, 247–48

al-Banna, Ibrahim, 311

Baradar, Abdul Ghani, 269

Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down episode), 141, 142, 245, 251

Bay of Pigs operation, 220

BBC, 103, 109

Beirut embassy bombing, 54

Benghazi attack, 316–17

Bennett, John, 268, 269

Bergdahl, Bowe, 202, 203

Berger, Sandy, 89, 92, 93–94

Berlin Wall, 58

Biden, Joe, 228

bin al-Shibh, Ramzi, 40

bin Laden, Osama, 6, 11, 15, 17–18, 34, 78, 88–89, 232, 319

Arab Spring and, 255

al-Harethi’s bombing of
Cole
ordered by, 86

hunt for, 162–67, 265, 270–72, 283–84

9/11 Commission critical of CIA’s inability to kill, 81

SEALs’ mission to kill, 133, 284–89

U.S. pressure on ISI to push Taliban to turn over, 27–28, 31–32

bin Laden-hunting unit (Alec Station), 91, 163, 319

bin Nayef, Muhammad, 213–16, 217, 229, 232

Black, J. Cofer, 11–12, 14, 15, 32, 33, 91, 123, 319

Black Hawk Down episode (Battle of Mogadishu), 141, 142, 245, 251

Blackstar, 239, 241

Blackwater USA, 122–25, 240, 258, 325, 327

Blackwater Worldwide, 243

Blair, Dennis, C.

as Director of National Intelligence, 223–26

fired after public criticisms of CIA secret operations, 234–35

as Military Support to CIA, 60–61

Blee, Richard, 91–92, 268

as advocate of drone program, 91, 319

reflecting on targeted-killing program, 319

Bolivia, 48–49

Bosnia, 61

Boykin, William, 79–80

Branch, Austin, 195

Brennan, John, 5, 231

al-Awlaki killing and, 302, 304–5, 308

as Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, 216–18, 220

British intelligence

MI5, 166

MI6, 6–7, 40

Bush, George H. W., 199

Bush, George H. W. administration, 76–77

Bush, George W., 12, 13, 20, 31, 53, 57, 77, 87, 156, 219, 226, 253–54, 314

advised by Rumsfeld and Goss against stripping CIA of military operations, 81–82

CIA tasked with global manhunt by, 10–11

daily briefings of, 13–14

drone strikes and, 218, 265, 267

escalation of CIA’s covert war in Pakistan ordered by, 173

Iraq surge ordered by, 186

Musharraf’s meeting with, 34

North Waziristan peace agreement and, 170–72

order granting CIA power to kill, 9

terrorists and patrons to be treated alike, 28–29

Bush, George W., administration, 40, 41, 58, 179–80, 192, 207, 314

escalation of drone strikes in Pakistan in 2008, 265–67