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Northern Ireland
North Korea
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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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Operation Dark Heart
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
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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
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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
Operation Dark Heart
Rivera, Geraldo
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rules of engagement (ROE)
Rumsfeld, Donald H.
Russian Road
Russian tank graveyard
Allen Stein
Sanders, Hank
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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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Smith, J. D.
Snow, Tony
SOCOM (Special Operations Command)
Somalia
South Waziristan
Soviet Union
Afghanistan occupation
tank graveyard
Special Forces
Speicher, Michael Scott
standards of conduct
Starbucks
Statue of Liberty
Stratus Ivy
sub-Saharan Africa
Sullivan, Patrice
sunglasses
surveillance technology
surveillance training
Swank, Hilary
Swat Valley
Taliban
Federally Administered Tribal Area
goals against
Mountain Viper. See Operation Mountain Viper
Operation Dark Heart. See Operation Dark Heart
Operation Winter Strike
overrunning police outposts
Task Force 1099. See Task Force 1099
videotape propaganda
“Taliban taxis,”
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Task Force 1099
concept of operation
“Death Star,”
Hekmatyar assault
initial strategy
madrassah bombing
setup
special holding facility
spring mission (Operation Shadow Matrix)
Task Force 180
Task Force Stratus Ivy
Task Force Warrior
Tate, Julie
Tenet, George
10th Mountain Division, See also Operation Mountain Viper
Tier 1 targets. See HVTs
Tier 2 targets
Title 10
Title 50
TOC (Tactical Operations Center) (“Death Star”)
Tora Bora
Torres, Raphael
torture. See enhanced interrogation methods
Toyota Corollas
Toyota Tacomas
training of Anthony Shaffer
unity of command
Varicose and His Itchy Veins
Vietnam War
Vines, John
Operation Dark Heart
Operation Mountain Viper
Wana
Bruce Gains
Medford, Chris
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Christenson, David “Dave,”
Al Qaeda Hotel
intelligence information exchange
introduction to
Kabul IED
Operation Dark Heart
Operation Mountain Viper
PTT improvised raid
Taliban video
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Weldon, Curt
Werman, Lisa (alias)
West Point
Wilson, Tom
winning in Afghanistan
addressing root cause of regional instability
appointing a forceful leader
changing logistical footprint
controlling the border
creating internal operational policy framework
establishing peace process
establishing true combined forces command
following the money
price of failure
radically rethinking analytical approach
reducing the violence
WMDs (weapons of mass destruction)
World Trade Center attacks (2001). See 9/11 attacks
World Trade Center bombing (1993)
World War II
Wright State College
Yemen
York, Jerry
Zabul. See also Operation Mountain Viper
Zaid, Mark
Zawahiri, Ayman Al-
Zelikow, Philip
GLOSSARY
ACM—Anti-Coalition Militia
ADVON—Advanced Operations
> AFB—Air Force Base
AFG—Air Force Group
AFSAC—Air Force Special Activities Center
AMF—Afghan Militia Forces
ANA—Afghan National Army
BCP—Bagram Collection Point
BDU—battle-dress uniform
CENTCOM—U.S. Central Command
CH-47—Chinook heavy-lift helicopter
CJSOTF—Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force
CJTF—Combined Joint Task Force
CONOP—Concept of Operations
CSAR—Combat Search and Rescue
DCI—Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
DCU—desert camouflage uniform
DIA—Defense Intelligence Agency
DOCEX—Document Exploitation
EBO—Effects Based operation
Farm—CIA training Facility
FLIR—Thermal imaging, forward looking infrared camera
FOB—Forward Operating Base
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FRAGO—fragmentary order
G2—army director of intelligence
HESCO—a modern gabion made of wire mesh containers lined with heavy fabric and filled with dirt and rocks.
HIG—Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin—terrorist group founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
HOC—HUMINT Operations Center
HQ—Headquarters
HSD—HUMINT Support Detachment
HSE—HUMINT Support Element
HUMINT—Human Intelligence
HVT—High Value Target
ID—identification; identify
IG—Inspector General
INSCOM—Army Intelligence and Security Command
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ISAF—International Security Assistance Force
ISI—Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
J2—senior intelligence officer, joint staff
J3—director for operations, joint staff
JDAMs—Joint direct attack munition
JSOC—Joint Special Operations Command
JSOTF—Joint Special Operations Task Force
JSTAR—airborne surveillance and target attack radar sytem
LIWA—Army’s Land Information Warfare Activity
LTC—Leadership Targeting Cell
LZ—Landing Zone
MIDB—Military Intelligence Database
MP—military police
MRE—meal ready to eat
NCO—noncommissioned officer
NFN—National File Number
NIMA—National Imagery and Mapping Agency
NSA—National Security Agency
NVGs—Night-Vision Goggles
OIC—Officer in Charge
ROE—Rules of Engagement
RPG—rocket-propelled grenade
SA-7—Soviet-made SAM (surface to air missile) a.k.a. GRAIL or Strela-2
SAW—Squad Automatic Weapon
SCIF—Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
SF—Special Forces
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SOCOM—U.S. Special Operations Command
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TOC—Tactical Operations Center
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VTC—video teleconferencing center in SCIF
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shaffer, Anthony.
Operation dark heart : spycraft and special ops on the frontlines of Afghanistan—and the path to victory / Anthony Shaffer.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-60369-4
1. Shaffer, Anthony. 2. Afghan War, 2001—Personal narratives, American. 3. Afghan War, 2001—Secret service—United States. 4. Afghan War, 2001—Military intelligence. 5. Intelligence officers—United States—Biography. 6. United States. Defense Intelligence Agency. 7. Espionage—Afghanistan. 8. Special operations (Military science)—Afghanistan. I. Title.
DS371.413.S535 2010
958.104'7—dc22
2010021685
eISBN 978-1-4299-6519-4
First Edition: September 2010
First Thomas Dunne Books eBook Edition: September 2010
Table of Contents
Cover
Note from the Publisher
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
1. The Usual Suspects
2. The “Dark Side”
3. Into Afghanistan
4. The Boy and the Bomb
5. “We Will Kill the Infidels”
6. Mountain Viper
7. Force on Force
8. To the Front
9. The Interrogation
10. Improvised Raid
11. IED
12. Al Qaeda Hotel
13. The “Heart of Darkness”
14. Able Danger
15. Tipping Point
16. The “Death Star”
17. Bronze Star
18. Madrassah
19. Abort Mission
20. Under Fire
21. “Alpha Team, Go”
22. “They’re Really Pissed at You”
23. Second Voyage
24. Unsafe at Any Speed
25. Darkness Falls
Epilogue
How to Win in Afghanistan
Index
Glossary
Copyright