The Way of the Knife (56 page)

Saudi Arabian base for, 306, 308, 309

signature strikes, 290, 319

testing of, at Indian Springs Air Field, 94–97

Prince, Erik, 122–25, 240, 243–44, 258, 325, 327

prisons

Abu Salim prison, 254

detention-and-interrogation progam, 13, 117–21, 126–28

Guantánamo Bay prison, 16–17, 23, 218, 219

Kot Lakhpat prison, 257

psychological operations, 175–90

of CIA, 175–76

of Pentagon, 176–90

during Vietnam War, 178–79

Putin, Vladimir, 189

Qeybdiid, Abdi Hasan Awale, 137

Raghal, Abu, 151

al-Rahman, Atiyah Abd, 300

Rangers, 138, 251

Rauf, Rashid, 165–66

Reagan, Ronald, 48, 50, 51, 54–55, 57, 70, 144

Reagan administration, 48, 49, 52, 54

Reaper drones, 266, 308, 318

Rice, Condaleezza, 190

Rizzo, John, 219, 221

Rodriguez, Jose, 10, 163, 166

detention-and-interrogation program and, 118–19, 126–27

Guantánamo Bay prison as idea of, 16–17

killing program resurrected by, 121–26

in Latin American division of CIA, 15–16

Somali warlords backed by, 137–38, 143

Rohde, David, 201

Romania, 58

Romney, Mitt, 314–15

Rowe, Leslie, 142

RQ-1 Predator, 61

Rumsfeld, Donald, 18–21, 26, 33, 86, 131, 149, 207, 267, 287

advises Bush against stripping CIA of military operations, 81–82

Al Qaeda Network Execute Order of, 128–29

Bajaur operation and, 115–17, 132

critical of CIA, 67–68, 73

efforts to modernize Defense Department, 19–21

Gray Fox and, 75

Holland’s briefing on strategy for war against al Qaeda to, 66–67

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and, 63–64, 65, 75–76

legal powers and authority of defense secretary, 75–77

special operations demonstration for, 63–64, 65

Tenet and, 20, 68

Sacred Sword of the Patriots League propaganda campaign, 178–79

Saeed, Hafiz Muhammad, 260–61, 277

Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 86–87, 100–101, 214, 230, 231, 232–34, 302, 305–6

Sanchez, Nestor, 47, 48, 53

Sandinistas, 50–51

Saracen International, 244

Saudi Arabia

bin Nayef assassination attempt, 213–16

drone base in, 306–7, 308, 309

Save the Children, 281

Schultz, George, 57

Schultz, Richard H., Jr., 179

Schwarzenberg, Karel, 190

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), 179–80

SEALs/SEAL Team Six, 64, 75, 76, 116, 129, 229

bin Laden mission, 133, 284–89

Damadola raid, 134–35

Nabhan operation, 246–47

Somalia mission, 149–50

Zhawar Kili exploitation operation, 17–18

secret prison program, CIA, 117–21

secret war, 11–17

costs of, 5–6

Secret War Against Hanoi, The
(Schultz), 179

Select Armor, 143–44

September 11 terrorist attacks, 11–12, 99, 303, 319

expansion of Counterterrorist Center after, 11

transformation in CIA and military missions after, 4–5

al-Shabwani, Jaber, 234, 306

Shahzad, Faisal, 309

Shahzad, Syed Saleem, 293

Shakai peace arrangement, 107–8

Sharif, Nawaz, 37, 259

“sheep-dipped” special operations, 133, 134, 287

Shelton, Hugh, 89

signature strikes, 290, 319

Simpson, Natasha, 55

Smith, Jeffrey, 325

SOCOM.
See
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Somalia, 137–51, 242–52

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

arms shipment from Obama administration to, 242–43

Aweys, Hasan Dahir and al Shabaab in, 139–43

Ballarin’s efforts in, 143–47, 238–42, 247–53

CIA backed warlords in, 137–43

Ethiopian invasion of, 148–51

Islamic Courts Union’s takeover of Mogadishu, 147–48

piracy and, 237–38, 247–48

U.S. counterterrorism operations in, 242–47

Soviet Union, 25–26, 27, 35, 168, 260, 267

Ethiopia–Somalia territorial battle and, 148

invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, 48, 112–13

special operations.
See
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)

Spy for All Seasons, A
(Clarridge), 199

Stevens, J. Christopher, 317

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 73

Sufism, 140, 146, 250–52

Sultan, Shaukat, 110

Syria, 78

Tajiks, 31–32

Taliban, 13, 20, 40–41, 192, 193–94

in Pakistan, 107–8, 157–58, 227

Pakistan support of, 27–32, 112, 168, 170, 269–70

Tanzania, embassy bombing in, 27

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

“targeting” of foreign nationals, 14–15

Task Force 188, 149–50

Task Force Orange.
See
Gray Fox

Taylor, Mike, 201

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
See
Pakistani Taliban

Tenet, George, 12–14, 16, 67, 86, 90, 98, 122, 217

daily meetings with Bush, 13–14

Predator drone program and, 91, 92, 97

Rumsfeld and, 20, 68

secret prison program and, 120

terrorism, 53–57.
See also
specific acts of terrorism

Thor, Brad, 211

Times Square bombing attempt, 309

Title 10, 76

Title 50, 76, 133, 287

Towers, The
(Andrews), 66

Transitional Federal Government, 139–40, 144, 242–43

Treaty of Westphalia, 326–27

Truman, Harry, 44, 200

Tunisia, 254

Turco, Fred, 57

Turner, Stansfield, 43, 69, 74, 222

TWA Flight 847 hostage standoff, 54

Typhoon Box, 134

ul Haq, Ehsan.
See
Ehsan ul Haq

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe), 73

underwear bomber, 232, 304

United Arab Emirates (UAE), 243–44

United Nations Convention Against Torture, 118

United States

missile defense pact with Czech Republic, 188–90

Pakistan-U.S. relationship, 26–32

U.S. Africa Command, 242

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Holland’s briefing on strategy for war against al Qaeda, 66–67

psychological operations in Muslim world of, 180–90

U.S.C. Title 10, 76

U.S.C. Title 50, 76

U.S.S.
Cole
(destroyer), bombing of, 85, 86, 89

U-Turn Media, 181–89

Uzbekistan, 92–93

Uzbeks, 31–32

vaccination campaign spying operation, 279–84

Vanity Fair,
124

Velvet Hammer, 71

Vickers, Michael G., 131

Vietnam, 45, 65–66, 78, 79

Vietnam War, 220

psychological operations during, 178–79

Village War, The
(Andrews), 65–66

Voice of America, 110, 249

Wahhabism, 140, 146, 250, 252

Wana, Pakistani attack on, 105–6

Wanat ambush, 193–94

Wardak bombing, 294

war on drugs, 49

Washington Post, The,
303

waterboarding, 118, 120–21

Weinberger, Caspar, 72, 199

wilderness of mirrors, 151

Wilson, Charlie, 91

Wisner, Frank, 175

Wolfowitz, Paul, 100

Woods, Tyrone, 317

Woodward, Bob, 220

Woolsey, R. James, Jr., 58–59, 91

Wyandotte Net Tel, 185

Yeager, Chuck, 96

Yellow Fruit, 72

Yemen, 214–15

al Qaeda militants prison break in, 138–39

al-Awlaki tracked and killed in, 302–10

Predator drone strikes in, 85–87, 100–101

U.S. covert operations against al Qaeda in, 229–34

Zardari, Asif Ali, 259, 266–67

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, 129–30

al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 105, 115–16, 134–35

Zegart, Amy, 315

Zhawar Kili exploitation operation, 17–18

Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad, 34, 260

Zinni, Anthony, 199

Zorick, Michael, 142

Zubaydah, Abu, 118–19, 126