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We’re not moving ahead . . . Three out of seven subdivisions . . . Bara and Terah . . . No one knows . . . Most of the people . . . The military: Interviews with health officials in NWFP, 10-12 January 2010.
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One fact is clear: Interview, Namair Muhammad, 3 December 2009.
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It was like a thunderstorm . . . The lower half of his body: Interview, Fazli Raziq, 2 December 2009.
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‘Nobody ever tried to pressure: Interview, Nazirullah Muhammadzai, 3 December 2009.
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I sat and cried: Interview, Abdul Rahim, 5 April 2010.
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A good man: Interview, Hazrat Jamal, 5 April 2010.
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US aggression against Iraq . . . People are asking . . . If you are conducting military operations: Interview with Maulana Rahat Hussein, 19 January 2010.
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It was different before 9/11: Interview, Hazrat Jamal, 5 April 2010.
Epilogue
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He’d knock the living shit. . . Never thought I’d live: Interview, Mark Stroman, 27 June 2008.
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$6 trillion: Stiglitz and Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War.
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a third of its own citizens: Polled by Scripps Howard/Ohio University, 36 per cent of more than 1,000 respondents declared it ‘somewhat likely’ or ‘very likely’ that US Federal officials either participated in the attacks or took no action to stop them, ‘because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East’. ‘Third of Americans Suspect 9-11 Government Conspiracy’, Scripps Howard News Service, 1 August 2006.
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Make no mistake about it: Remarks by the President in photo opportunity with the National Security team, 12 September 2001.
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Quiet, pretty quiet: Interview, Alka Patel, 28 June 2008.
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You know, some people are crazy . . . Some women are not able to rest . . . Why did they say: Interview, Karim and Halima al Saadi, 1 November 2008.
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political calculus: ‘Powell Rows Back on Doubts over Invasion’, Guardian (4 February 2004).
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I still firmly believe: Lt. Gen. Mike DeLong, A General Speaks Out, Introduction.
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I can apologize for the information: ‘Why Can’t More People Just Say Sorry?’ The Times (29 October 2008).
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No. Go and kill her . . . If you can’t do this for me: Interview, Abdul Malik, 8 March 2010.
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You know: Interview, Kevin Hartline, 21 June 2008.
Acknowledgements
Interviews
JA; Dr Jalaa Abdelwahab; Haji Saheb Jan Agha; Ahmed’; Ali’ and his friend from Al Qa’qaa; David Albright; the Alsaai family; Haji Mohammad Anwar; ‘Sardor Azimov’; Andrew Bartlett; Rod Barton; Jacques Baute; Ambassador Kim Beazley; Andrea Berg; Dr Stephen Blank; Eric Blehm; Matilda Bogner; Tom Boston; Peter Bouckaert; Jorg Hendrik Brase; Julian Burnside QC; RC; Joe Caffrey; Colonel Jon Chicky; Mary Connell; Garry Cordukes; JD; Ambassador James Dobbins; George Dodd; Elias Durry; Azmatullah Jan Faiq; Ambassador Robert Finn; Carl Ford; Ambassador Daniel Fried; Tom Fuentes; Ronnie ‘Shy’ Galloway; Jesse Garcia; Alison Gill; Kevin ‘Bear’ and Sheila Hartline; George Healey; Marc Herold; Melissa Hooper; Sami Ibrahim; JH; Russell Hogg; Roland Jabour; Jan Mohammed Khan; Lai-Ling Jew; Larry Johnson; Dr Brian Jones; HK; JK; Bob Kelley; MS; NM; Tom Malinowski; General Dan McNeill; David Merkel; the Kahtany family; Haji Abdul Khaliq; JM; ‘Nodir Mahmudov’; Abdul Malik and Tela Gul. Josep Manchado; David Manne; Khalifa Haji Jan Mohammad; ‘Haki Mohammed’; Namair Muhammad; Nazirullah Muhammadzai; Abu Nazir; Anna Neistat; Chris Nelson; Martha Brill Olcott; JP; VP; Khalid Pashtoon; Alka Patel; Sasha Petrov; Abdumannob Polat; Dr Ciro de Quadros; Asim Qureshi; Professor John Radsan; Maulana Rahat Hussein; Haji Abdul Rahim; Fazli Raziq; Rachel Reid; Philip Ruddock; Dr Michael Rwykin; MS; ‘Karim’ and ‘Halima al Saadi’; Haji Khalifa Sadat; Hazrat Jamal Salarzai; David Sanger; Michael Scheuer; Mike Scrafton; Abu Shujaa; John Sifton; Dean Staley; Professor Frederick Starr; Mark Stroman; Bob and Carolyn Templeton; Greg Thielmann; AW; Geoff Wainwright; Wayne White; Monica Whitlock; Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson; Richard Wood; Professor Houston Wood III; Tim Wyatt; ‘Yusuf and Sam Zarifi.
Thank you
For time, advice and contacts: Sidney and Roland Alford; Michael Andersen; Iroda Askarova; Moazzim Begg; Mike Coldrick; Patrick Cook at the Spectre Association (sorry it didn’t work out) and the indefatigable Pamela Curr in Melbourne. Cath Davis; Mark Dowd; Marsha Emerman; George Fulton; Manfred Gnjidic; Hans Halberstadt; Charlie Hawes; Shahzeb Jillani; David Leser; Kirstine Lumb; Peter Mares; Grant Mitchell; Umida Niyazova; the Polio Eradication Heroes’ Fund; Samantha Power; Peter Rickwood; Margaret Satterthwaite; Gerald Schumacher; Sarah Sewall; Zahid Shah; Jack Smit; Mary Snider; Rudi Tangermann; Jessie Taylor; Stephen Watt; Andy Worthington; Shahida Yakub; Assistant DA Shelly O’Brien Yeatts and the staff at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
To the various individuals who shepherded me through their countries or went to meet the people I was hunting: in Iraq, Haider al Safi, Gailan and al Mutalibi. In Pakistan, Shaheen Buneri. In Afghanistan, Ali Ahmad. In Australia, Chris and Fiona Whitwell – who sent me to the doctor when I thought pneumonia was a chesty cough – Henry and Polly (who smells), and Helen Collier (who doesn’t).
On the bookish side, thank you to Julian at LAW for putting up with the crises; Pete Beatty at Bloomsbury and Toby Mundy at Atlantic – who came up with the idea, the title and everything else, then had to wait. . . and wait. Sorry. Margaret Stead and Ian Pindar. And a massive thank you to Simon Berthon, for wise advice when all appeared lost.
To my parents for listening patiently; to Rollo (any chairs left?); to Chris Gair for his relentless computer-based chivvying; and, of course, to Diesel – who has had more than enough of book-writing, and debt, for a while. Thank you. Oh, and Zoe Elton, who didn’t help at all but wants a mention.
Index
9/11 attacks, ref1, ref2
attackers, ref1
and Australian election, ref1, ref2
and patriotism, ref1
and press reporting, ref1
and US intelligence community, ref1
Abbar, Mohammed, ref1, ref2
Abbas, Hamid, ref1
Abbas, Mohammed, ref1
Abu Al Abbas, ref1
Abu Ali, ref1
Abu Badr, ref1, ref2
Abu Ghraib prison, ref1, ref2
Abu Musab, ref1
Abu Omar, ref1
Abu Shujaa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Abu Sultan, ref1
Acute Stress Disorder, ref1
Adamu, Najib Hussein, ref1, ref2
Afghan National Army, ref1
Afghanistan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Afghan Eyes operation, ref1
and democracy, ref1, ref2
and intelligence, ref1, ref2
and polio, ref1, ref2
reconstruction, ref1, ref2
and rendition, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Soviet invasion, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
US invasion, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
US withdrawal, ref1
wedding customs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Africa, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ahmed, Dr Ibrahim Datti, ref1
AIDS, ref1, ref2
aircraft AC-47, ref1
AC-130 SPECTRE gunships, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
B-52 bombers, ref1, ref2
Hercules, ref1, ref2
Predator drones, ref1, ref2, ref3
aircraft carriers, ref1
Akbarpura, ref1
Akhond, Mohammed Sarwar, ref1
Akramiya, ref1
, ref2
Al Amin, ref1
Al Amyria police station, ref1
alAraji, Sami, ref1
al-Bakr, Ahmed Hassan, ref1
Al Furat, ref1
Al Jihad Bridge, ref1
Al-Khatib, Farouk, ref1
al Kurdi, Abu Omar, ref1
al Masri, Umar, ref1
al-Mishedani, Adel, ref1
al-Qaeda
and AlQa’qaa, ref1
bombing offensive, ref1
and ‘existential threat’, ref1, ref2, ref3
operatives, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
in Pakistan, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Uzbekistan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Al Qa’qaa, ref1, ref2, ref3
Al Qadissiya, ref1
Al Rashid, ref1
Al Rhadwania, ref1
al Saadi, Halima, ref1, ref2, ref3
al Saadi, Karim, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
al Shehhi, Marwan, ref1
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, ref1
al-Zawahiri, Ayman, ref1, ref2, ref3
Albania, ref1
Alexander the Great, ref1
Ali, Liaqat, ref1
Almatov, Zokir, ref1
Alsaai, Ali, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Alsaai, Hawraa, ref1, ref2, ref3
aluminium 7075-T6 alloy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Amanullah, General, ref1
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ref1, ref2
Amnesty International, ref1, ref2
Amsterdam, ref1
Andijan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
refugees, ref1, ref2
Angola, ref1
Annan, Kofi, ref1
anthrax, ref1, ref2
Anwar, Mohammed, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Aqaba, ref1
Arabs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Arab fighters, ref1, ref2, ref3
Armitage, Richard, ref1, ref2
Ashmore Reef, ref1
Association of Aeronautical
Photographers of Mallorca, ref1, ref2
asylum seekers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Children Overboard story, ref1, ref2, ref3
‘asymmetric warfare’, ref1
Atan dance, ref1
Atlanta, ref1, ref2
Atlantic Trading and Communications Corps, ref1, ref2, ref3
Atta, Mohammed, ref1, ref2
Australia, ref1, ref2, ref3
and 9/11 attacks, ref1, ref2
asylum policy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
general election, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Iraq invasion, ref1
and Iraq rocket programme, ref1, ref2, ref3
legal system, ref1
Pacific Solution, ref1, ref2
and polio, ref1
Australian, ref1, ref2
Australian Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organization, ref1
Australian Defence, Science and Technology Organization, ref1, ref2
Australian Office of National Assessments, ref1
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), ref1
Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), ref1, ref2, ref3
Aviano, ref1
Axis of Evil, ref1,ref2
Azimov, Sardor, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bacha, Abdullatif ref1, ref2
Badr, ref1
Baghdad, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
looting, ref1, ref2, ref3
UN bombing, ref1
Baghdad Airport, ref1, ref2
Baghdad University of Technology, ref1
Bajaur, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Baker, Doyle, ref1
Baker, Sandra, ref1
Bali bombing, ref1
Bangladesh, ref1
Banks, Norman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bara, ref1
Bari, Abdul, ref1, ref2, ref3
Barton, Rod, ref1, ref2, ref3
Baute, Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3
BBC Panorama, ref1
Beazley Kim, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bennett, David, ref1
Berlin, ref1
Bhuiuian, Raisuddin, ref1
Bhutto, Benazir, ref1
Bichi, Dr Alhassan, ref1
Bihar, ref1, ref2
bin Laden, Osama, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
CIA hunt for, ref1, ref2
Binalshibh, Ramzi, ref1, ref2
Bishkek, ref1
black fever, ref1
Blair, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Blank, Stephen, ref1
Blix, Hans, ref1
Boeing Business Jet N313P, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bornt, Colleen A., ref1
Bosnia, ref1, ref2, ref3
Boston, Tom, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Boucher, Richard, ref1
Bowdler, Elizabeth, ref1
Bradley, Sam, ref1
Brazil, ref1
British intelligence, ref1
Brookes, Tim, ref1
Buhari, Muhammadu, ref1
Bumpers, Senator Dale, ref1
Burkina Faso, ref1
Burma, ref1, ref2
Bush, George, snr, ref1
Bush, George W., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
and Afghan invasion, ref1, ref2, ref3
and bin Laden, ref1
and Iraq invasion, ref1, ref2
and looted munitions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and rendition, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Uzbekistan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Caffrey, Joe, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cameroon, ref1
Camp David, ref1
Camp Justice, ref1
Canada, ref1, ref2
Carlos the Jackal, ref1
Carter, Jimmy, ref1
Cartier Islands, ref1
Castelli, Jeffrey, ref1
Central African Republic, ref1
centrifuges, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Chad, ref1, ref2
Chagasyan, ref1, ref2
Charsada, ref1
Chechnya, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chenagai, ref1
Cheney, Dick, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Iraqi nuclear weapons, ref1, ref2, ref3
and looted munitions, ref1
Chicago, ref1
Chicky Colonel Jon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Chile, ref1
China, ref1, ref2
and aluminium tubes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
cholera, ref1, ref2
Christmas Island, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4,ref5
CIA, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
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