by Ronan Farrow
Butt, Nazir Ahmed, 76, 129, 130
Butturini, Teo, 222–23, 236
buzkashi (game), 169–70, 199
BuzzFeed, 270
Cafritz, Bill, 47
Cafritz, Buffy, 47
Cairo, 102, 229
6th October Bridge in, 222–23
Cairo University, xxvi
Camargo, Alberto Lleras, 247
Cambodia, 6
Cambridge University, 13
Camp David, 228–29, 235
Canada, 4, 5
capture-and-kill operations, 211
Cardin, Ben, 272
Cartel, Medellín, 250
Carter, Ash, xxix
Carter, Jimmy, 39, 228–29
Carter administration, 22–23, 38
Carville, James, xxii
“cash flow financing,” 234
Cassidy & Associates, 30, 145
Central Command (CENTCOM), 59, 61, 103, 111, 159, 274
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), xxvi, 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 41, 42, 43, 44, 55, 57, 70, 71, 76, 82, 106, 138, 143, 145, 161, 175, 185, 186, 190, 192, 197, 213, 216, 242, 246, 248, 302
Counterrorism Center of, 175
Raymond Davis and, 128, 129
Khost bombing and, 100
mujahedeen and, 170–71
in Somalia, 204, 209–12
Special Activities Division of, 177
Syrian policy and, 159–60
Chacon, Arnold, xii, xiii
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv, 109
“Changing Pakistan’s Behavior Toward the Taliban” (flow chart), 65
Charlie Wilson’s War (film), 171–72
Cheema, Umar, 71
police attack on, 68–69
Cheney, Dick, xxiv, 267
China, xx, 53, 65, 93, 96, 282, 287, 288, 289, 290–94, 298, 304
development programs of, 292
Christopher, Warren, xxii, 39
Chunta, Hazarat, 195
Churchill, Winston, 4
Clancy, Erin, xvi–xx, 260
Clapper, James, xxvi
Clarke, Richard A., 211
“clientitis,” 150
Clinton, Bill, xxii, 13, 15, 28, 32, 39, 47, 59, 243–44, 250, 286
Clinton, Hillary, xxvii, xxviii, xxxii, 10, 47, 48, 51–52, 54, 57, 59, 61, 64, 80, 94, 95–96, 102, 108, 110, 112, 118, 120, 121–22, 130, 134–35, 230, 277–78, 288–89
on Afghan troop surge, 65–66
Dostum and, 191–92
elbow fractures of, 121
email server of, xvi
Holbrooke and, 15
Holbrooke’s death and, 124–25
and Pakistan visa blocking, 77
as secretary of state, 52
social recall of, 52
State Department memoir of, 135
on Syria policy, 161
Taliban negotiations and, 106–7
Tunisia speech of, 227–28
Clinton administration, 38, 39, 49, 140, 287
Coalition Provisional Authority, xxiv, 306
cocaine, 244, 247, 248
Cocaine Triangle, 163
Cold War, xxii, xxiii, 5, 162, 166, 228, 245
Colombia, 237–53
extrajudicial killings in, 240–41, 242, 250–52
homicide rate of, 249
paramilitaries in, 248
Soacha scandal in, 240–41, 242
US aid to, 244–45, 246, 250–51
US assistance and training to, 241–42
Combined Tactical Systems (CTS), 236
Commander’s Emergency Response Program, xxv, 80, 171
Committee to Protect Journalists, 70
Congo, 93
Congress, US, xxii, 3, 23, 78, 95, 129, 134, 170, 186, 224, 233, 271, 272, 273, 274, 279, 287, 304
Bhutto’s address to, 27
consulates, xxii
containment, 20
“containment doctrine,” 5
Cooper, Anderson, 185
Corker, Bob, 272
corruption, 238
Costeño, 237, 239, 240
Coumadin, 118
Council on Foreign Relations, 18
counterinsurgency, 18, 20, 63, 66–67, 115, 116, 242, 245, 246
three steps of, 80–81
counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN), 60–61, 116
counterterrorism, xxiii, 7–8, 124
Counter-Terrorism Security Group, 211
Countryman, Dubravka, xiii–xiv
Countryman, Thomas, ix–xi, xiii–xiv, xv–xvi, xvii, xviii, xx, 214, 306–7, 309
accent of, xi–xii
background of, xi–xii
resignation of, xii–xiv
on Trump administration, xiv–xv
“coup clause,” 232–33
Craig, Greg, 49, 50
Crowley, P. J., 110, 121
Crumpton, Hank, 177, 179, 180
Cuba, xxvi, 282–83
cyberterrorism, xx
Daman-e-Koh park, 68
Damascus, American embassy in, xviii
Damavand College, 21
Da Nang, 17
“Dangers of Being Too Good-Looking, The” (Esquire article), 119
Daniel Pearl Fellowship, 68
Darfur, 293
Dasht-i-Leili desert, 181
Dasht-i-Leili massacre, 164–202
Davis, Raymond, 126–28, 129–30, 131, 138
Dayton Agreement, 39–40, 41
death squads, 242, 248–49
DeCarlo’s restaurant, 145
Decree 3398, 245–46
Defense Department, US, xxiv–xxv, xxx, xxxi, 18, 55, 59, 82, 156, 161, 184, 202, 204, 213, 214, 216, 225, 234, 242, 258
budget of, xxvi
State Department power ceded to, 158–59
Syrian policy and, 159–60
defense spending, xxiii–xxiv, xxvi, 274
Dejban, Donna, 95, 118
d’Erlanger, Rodolphe, 227
DeStefano, Johnny, 274
Diplomatic Society, 145
diplomats, diplomacy, xi, xxvii, xxxii, 3–4, 5, 151, 282, 308
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 8
destruction of institutions of, xxxi–xxxii
militarization of by Trump, 156–57, 163
skepticism about, xx
Trump on, xiv
Directive #29, 241
Directorate S, 44, 131–32
Dirksen Senate Office Building, 272
Djibouti, 212
Donilon, Tom, xxvii, xxviii, 113
Dostum, Abdul Rashid, 166–202, 204
alcoholism of, 189–90
army service of, 170
author’s interview with, 166–69, 188–98
background of, 169–70
charm of, 179
fall from power of, 200
as fitness guru, 192
mujahedeen joined by, 172
press portrayal of, 190–92
Taliban and, 172–73
US arming of, 173, 178–79
violence of, 169–70, 199–200
visa denial and, 191–92
drone strikes, 72–73, 74–75, 147
drought, 97
drugs, 238, 244, 245, 248, 249
Duterte, Rodrigo, 158
East Timor, 59
education, 22
Egypt, x, 73, 102, 157–58, 163, 222–36, 238, 250, 306
crackdown on protests in, 231–32
elections in, 230–31
US aid to, 229, 232–34, 235–36
Eikenberry, Karl, 108
ElBaradei, Mohamed, 224, 226
El-Bayoumi, Jehan, 121
Elvir (Freddy Torres’s cousin), 238–39, 240
Emanuel, Rahm, 63
Embasoira Hotel, 203–4
Energy Department, US, 301
Eritrea, 208, 212, 213
Esquire, 119
Ethiopia, 208, 212, 213, 215, 216–17
ethnic cleansing, 46
European Union (EU), 212, 214, 298
Evans, Micheal, 20
5–6, 220–21
Evans, Paul, 177
Evans, Sally, 204–6, 207, 220–21
Evans, Thomas, see Hakim, Abdul
executions, 8–9
Express Tribune, 36
extrajudicial killings (EJK), 8–10, 11, 70–71, 72
in Colombia, 240–41, 242, 250–52
ExxonMobil, 259, 263
F-15 fighters, 157
F-16 fighter jets, 27
Facebook, 205
Faheem, Mohammed, 127
Fahmy, Nabil (interim foreign minister), 226–27, 236
The Fairfax, preinaugural party at, 47–48, 51, 56
false positives, 240–41, 250
FARC, see Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Far Eastern Economic Review, 33
Fazl, Mohammad, 174
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 14, 26, 55, 76, 144, 146–49, 184, 207, 216
Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), 42–43
Feldman, Dan, 120–21, 146
Ferozepur Road, 126
5th Special Forces Group, 177–78
Financial Times, 137–39, 140
Finer, Jon, 297, 300, 301, 303, 304
Finn, Robert, 183, 184
floods, 97
Flournoy, Michele, 131
Folk, Anders, 220
Foreign Affairs, 119
foreign aid, xiv
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 147
foreign policy, US, xxviii, 4
changes to focus of, xxi–xxii
militarization of, xxiii–xxiv, xxvi–xxvii, xxxii, 17–18, 158–59, 167
Foreign Policy, xxi, 55, 124, 275
Foreign Service, US, ix, xi, xii, xxv, 5, 17, 21, 22, 82, 184, 227, 260, 270, 274, 276, 277–78, 298, 306, 309
lack of experience at, xxx–xxxi
Mahogany Row in, xvii, xviii, 12, 257
pay of, xviii–xix
resignation letters at, xiii
vacancies at, xxx
Fort Benning, 242
Fort Bragg, 127
Fort McNair, 111
Fort Myer Army Base, 201–2
Four Powers Summit (1960), 16–17
Fox News, 140
Franklin, Benjamin, 3
Frazer, Jendayi, 211–12, 218, 219
Freddy (acquaintance of Elvir), 237, 238–39, 240
Free Syrian Army (FSA), 159–60
Friedman, Thomas, xxiii
Fusa, 238–39
Gaddafi, Muammar, 208
Garden Cafe, 148, 150
Gates, Robert, 64, 65
Gelb, Leslie, 18, 51, 118
Geneva Conventions, 174
Genghis Khan, 189
genocide, 10
George Washington University Hospital, 120
Germany, 99–101, 286, 297
Ghani, Ashraf, 190, 200
Ghost Writer, The (film), 85–86
Gilani, Yousaf Raza, 36, 77
glaciers, 97
Glenn, John, 24
Global Times, 291
global warming, 97
Global War on Terrorism, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 87, 186
Goldstein, Steven, 257, 258, 264
Google, 81
Gore, Al, 38, 41
Gorka, Sebastian, 279
Government Accountability Office, 234
Graham, Lindsey, 224, 225, 226
Great Britain, xi, 3–4
Great Depression, 4
Green Berets, 177–78
Green Revolution, 302
Grossman, Marc, 140
“Ground Lines of Communication” (GLOCs), 133–35
Guam, 285
Guantánamo Bay, 101, 174, 184, 193
Gulf War, 306
Hagel, Chuck, 225
Haider, Faizan, 127
Hakim, Abdul (the White Beast), 205–6, 207, 220–21
Halberstam, David, 48
Haley, Nikki, 263–64, 266, 281, 283, 302
Hamlisch, Marvin, 122
Haqqani, Husain, 4, 32–37, 77, 89, 130, 133, 144
as ambassador to US, 36–37
arrest of, 34–35
background of, 32–33
as Bhutto’s spokesperson, 34
bin Laden killing and, 137–38
Davis scandal and, 129, 130
detention and exile of, 141–43
Holbrooke’s relationship with, 84–87
Ijaz memo and, 137–43
ISI mistrust of, 119
move to US by, 35
Sharif and, 33–34
suspect loyalties of, 138–43
visas issued by, 138
Haqqani, Jalaluddin, 24, 42–43
Harriman, William Averell, 18–19, 52, 57
Harriman, Pamela, 16
Harry’s Tap Room, 101
Hastings, Michael, 104–5
Hay, John, 84
Hay-Adams hotel, 84
Hayden, Michael, 43–44, 71, 132, 216, 235
Hayes, Jeff, 100
Hazaras, 176–77
health programs, 270
Heffernan, John, 165–66, 181
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 24, 25, 28, 42–43
Helms, Jesse, xxii
Hemsworth, Chris, 197
Herat, 182
heroin, 79
Herring, Joanne, 170, 171
Hill, Christopher, 287–89, 295
Hoge, James, 119
Holbrooke, Anthony, 54
Holbrooke, David, 54
Holbrooke, Richard, xxvii, 5, 6, 15–20, 21, 30, 32, 33, 70, 78–83, 84–87, 91, 92, 95–96, 111–12, 119, 134, 135, 142, 143, 146, 147, 150–51, 155, 156, 158, 162, 171, 191–92, 201, 227, 258, 275, 287, 288, 296, 304, 308–9
Afghan farming supported by, 79–80
Afghan reconstruction and, 78–82
on Afghan troop surge, 64–67
Agha negotiations and, 101–6
ambulance ride notes of, 121
audio diaries of, 64
author’s job interview with, 55–59
author’s relationship with, 46–47, 118–19
background of, 15–17
bathroom meetings of, 58
Bosnian conflict and, 38–41, 53
Charlie Rose interview of, 48–49
Dayton Agreement and, 39–40
death of, 123–25
group waivers and, 94–95
health problems of, 117–18, 120–21
Hillary Clinton and, 48, 50–52
induced coma of, 123
Iraq War supported by, 50, 64
Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act and, 89–90
meeting with Obama of, 51
memo to Clinton by, 112–17
negotiating style of, 16
New Yorker profile on, 110
Obama administration and, 48–51
Obama administration’s rift with, 109–10, 135–36
at Obama preinaugural party, 47–48
and Obama’s review of Afghan strategy, 63–64
Obama’s treatment of, 63–64
pariah status of, 107–9
passed over as secretary of state, 40–41
Petraeus and, 61–62
press relationship with, 109–10
“shura” meetings of, 107
shuttle diplomacy by, 86
ambition to serve as special envoy for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 53–59
Susan Rice and, 49
Taliban negotiations and, 120
undermining of, 107–9
USAID hat of, 92–93
USAID projects contracted by, 78–79
Vietnam and, 17–20
water policy and, 96–98
Homeland Security Department, US, 271
honor killings, 149–50
Hook, Brian, 265, 267, 289, 291, 309
Horn of Africa, 163, 203–4
Hudson Institute, 142
Huffington Post, 95
human rights, 71–72, 157–58, 161, 163, 165, 238, 244, 250, 280–81
Human Rights Watch,
8, 9, 190, 191, 223–24, 231, 233–34
Ijaz, Mansoor, 137–39, 142
background of, 139–40
India, 26, 29, 30–31, 32, 42, 43, 53, 65, 85, 86–87, 96, 114, 126, 150
water issues and, 97–98
Indus River, 97
Indus Waters Treaty, 97
Insigniam, 269, 270
InterAction, 81, 93
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), 212, 214
International Herald Tribune, 46
internationalism, xx
International Monetary Fund, 5, 226
Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), 22, 23, 25, 28, 34, 41–42, 43, 44, 71, 75–76, 100, 119, 128, 129, 131–32, 133, 140–41, 142
anti-American stories planted by, 73
and Cheema, 69–70
Haqqani and, 138, 140–41
Petraeus on, 76
Iran, xx, xxiii, xxvi, 2, 21, 53, 86, 92, 309
human rights record of, 280–81
nuclear deal with, x, 279–81, 295–99
sanctions on, 299, 300
uranium enrichment facility in, 299
Iran-Contra affair, 298
Iraq, 59, 66, 140, 156
Iraq War, xxiv–xxv, xxxii, 50, 64, 299, 306, 308
counterinsurgency doctrine in, 60–61
ISAF, 62
Ischi, Ahmad, 199–200
Islam, radical, xx
Islamabad, 10–11, 21, 22, 33, 68
Islamic Courts Union (ICU), 203–4, 208–9, 214, 215–16, 217–18, 220
stabilizing effect of, 209
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, 105
Islamic Revolution, 22
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), xxiii, 158–59, 160, 201, 234, 309
Islamists, 24–25
Islamist terrorism, 176–77
isolationism, 4
Israel, x, 228–29, 231, 234, 250, 280
Izetbegovic´, Alija, 39
Jamaat-e-Islami party, 33
Japan, xxxi, 5, 284, 286
Jay, John, 3
Jezebel (blog), xxviii
jihad, 26
Jilani, Jalil Abbas, 144
Johnson, Lyndon, 63
Joint Special Operations, 143
Jolie, Angelina, 59
Jones, Jim, xxvi, xxvii, 65, 107–8, 109, 132, 138
Holbrooke firing memo of, 108
Jones, Stuart E., 157
Jordan, x, xv
American embassy in, ix–x
Junbish militias, 190, 199
Justice Department, US, 55
Kabul, 102, 172, 177, 179, 183, 188
Vice Presidential Palace in, 167–68, 189, 200
Kalimas, 7
Kamal, Mohsin, 88 129, 130
Kandahar, 100, 175
Kappes, Steve, 132
Karachi University, 33
Karzai, Hamid, 104, 106, 108, 113, 135, 175, 176
Kashmir, 97
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 19
Kayani, General, 89, 90, 132, 133, 138, 141
Kazakhstan, 294
Kelly, John F., 156, 201, 285
Kennan, George, 5
Kennedy, John F., 308
Kennedy, Patrick, xvi, 306
Kenney, Kristie, xix
Kenya, 208, 212, 221