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Iraq, xvi, 44
alleged weapons of mass destruction of, 132, 133, 139, 140, 143, 144, 146, 147–48, 156, 165, 172, 224–25
in axis of evil, 153
civil war in, 163–64, 166–67, 274–75, 291
elections in, 164
Green Zone in, 291–92
Kuwait invaded by, 18, 19, 56, 131, 136, 163, 299
no-fly zones in, 162
oilfields of, 53
refugees from, 159
see also Gulf War
“Iraq and al-Qa’ida: Interpreting a Murky Relationship,” 139
Iraq Body Count, 159
Iraqi, Abdul Hadi al-, 188
Iraqi National Congress, 138, 140–42
Iraq Study Group, 281–82, 283
“Iraq Support for Terrorism,” 142–43
Iraq Survey Group, 150
Iraq War, xv, 26, 153–73, 198, 224, 266–96
as allegedly interfering with Afghan War, xvii, 81, 155, 340
al-Qaeda in, see Al Qaeda in Iraq
Battlefield Update Assessment of, 286
bin Laden’s view of, 27, 28
erroneous claims and, 59
foreign fighters in, 167–68
insurgency and counterinsurgency in, 156–60, 162–66, 269, 276–77, 281, 285–86, 291
jihad increased by, 171–72
looting in, 155
media coverage of, 159–60
plan for, 81
rationale for, xvii, 51, 116, 131–52, 153
review of, 278–81
surge in, xvii, 273–74, 278, 279, 281–82, 283–90, 293, 295–96, 319, 326–27, 329
as “terrorist magnet,” 165–66
U.S. casualties of, 80, 150, 157, 170, 278, 291, 294
Wolfowitz’s desire for, 55, 56
ISI, 186, 264, 265
Islam, 16, 28
as allegedly under assault, xvii
suicide in, 31
Islamabad, Pakistan, 257, 331
Islamic Army of Iraq, 272
Islamic Courts Union (ICU), 237
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, 87
Ismail, Faraj, 10, 14, 17
Israel, 46, 49, 91, 138, 165, 208–9, 210, 213, 337
bin Laden’s suicide operatives in, 4
Egypt’s ceasefire with, 13, 23
Gaza invaded by, 338
Lebanon invaded by, 33
in 1967 war, 12
Sadat’s cease-fire with, 13
U.S. support for, 18, 27–28, 32, 33, 238
Istanbul, 209
Italy, xvi, 153
Ivins, Bruce E., 223
jahiliyyah, 22, 23
Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM), 291, 292
Jaish-e-Mohammed, 251, 256–57
Jaji, Afghanistan, 15–16
Jakarta, Indonesia, 92
Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 68–69
Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, 249
James, Kevin Lamar, 241
Jarrah, Ziad, 5, 252
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 11
Jemaah Islamiyah, 117, 302
Jenkins, Brian, 91
Jennings, Peter, 36
Jensen, Sterling, 266, 267
Jerusalem, 32
jihad, xv, 17, 343
as pillar of faith, 29
Zawahiri’s view of, 17
Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, 96
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 81, 104, 180, 282–83
Joint Special Operations Command, 325
Joint Strategic Assessment Team (JSAT), 288
Joint Terrorism Task Forces, 245
Jones, James, 185, 195, 329
Jordan, xvi, 92, 100, 138, 168, 171, 172, 349
Jouvenal, Peter, 62
Jughrafiya, Madaris, 300
Justice Department, U.S., 44, 101, 114, 127, 137, 207
Jyllands-Posten, 235–36
K2 air base, 81
Kabul, 8, 174–75, 178–79, 188, 264–65, 326, 333–34
fall of, 60, 62, 65, 68, 196
Kagan, Fred, 273, 279–80, 284, 285, 319, 320
Kagan, Kimberly, 319, 320
Kahuta facility, 215
Kandahar, Afghanistan, 64, 140, 175, 186, 247, 319, 326
Kandahar airport, 46, 340
Karachi, Pakistan, 92, 249, 252, 254, 265
Karzai, Hamid, 63, 175–76, 181, 182, 190–91, 193, 311, 321, 328–29
Afghan government set up by, 65–67
in explosion, 66–67
Karzai, Walid, 193
Kashmir, 217, 248, 265, 301, 311
Kashmiri, Ilyas, 236
Kasi, Mir Aimal, 101, 343–44
Kay, David, 150
Kazakhstan, 221
Keane, John, 273, 275, 279, 280–81, 284
Keller, Arthur, 166, 339–40
Kenya, 208–9, 213
bombing of U.S. embassy in, 4, 21, 40, 50, 59, 127, 135, 220, 253, 304
Kerry, John, 83, 84–85, 130, 328, 342
Khabab, Abu, 222–23
Khadr, Zaynab, 340
Khaksar, Mullah, 220
Khalaylah, Ahmed Fadel al-, 151
Khaldan training facility, 88, 146, 147
Khalifa, Jamal, 12, 15, 34
Khan, Adam, 71
Khan, A. Q., 229, 247–48
Khan, Ismail, 176
Khan, Mohammed Siddique, 197, 198–99, 200, 337
Khan, Wazir Akbar, 177–78
Khartoum, 220
Khayr, Abu al-, 347
Kherchtou, L’Houssaine, 38, 88
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 12–13
Kilcullen, David, 194, 195, 266, 271
Kimmel, Husband, 39
King, Larry, 158, 346
King Abdul Aziz University, 12, 23
Kings Cross railway station, 197–98
Kini, Osama al-, 263, 346
Kirkuk, Iraq, 284
Koran, 26, 28–29, 35, 69, 78, 92, 161, 171, 184, 203, 240
Korean War, 318
Kosovo, 65, 80
Kowt, Tarin, 63
Kraus, Karl, 131
Krekar, Mullah, 162
kunyas, 30
Kurds, 137, 140, 144–45, 162, 275, 289
Kuwait, 79
Iraqi invasion of, 19, 56, 131, 136, 163, 299
Kuwaiti, Abu Jaafar al-, 75, 76
Lackawanna, N.Y., 125–27
Lady, Robert, 103
Lami, Sabah Khalifa Khodada al-, 141
Lang, Patrick, 345
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), 212, 236–37, 242, 256–57, 265
Lawrence, T. E., 276, 277
Leaderless Jihad (Sageman), 201
“leaderless jihad,” 201–3, 204, 205–6
Leahy, Pat, 96
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (Nagl), 276
Lebanon, 33, 301
Leitenberg, Milton, 226
Leno, Jay, 314
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 135, 142
Liberty City, Fla., 242
Libi, Abu Laith al-, 187, 346
Libi, Ibn al-Shaykh al-, 146, 147–48
Library Tower, 117
Libya, 100
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, 7
Limburg, 209, 341
Lindh, John Walker, 4, 125, 217
Little Rock, Ar., 240
Logan Airport, 31
London, 7/7 bombing in, 197–201, 206, 239, 337
London Underground, 197–98, 200
Long Island Railroad, 235
Los Angeles International Airport, 48, 241
Lugar, Richard, 287, 322
Lute, Douglas E., 193–94, 312
MacArthur, Douglas, 318
McCain, John, 194, 287
McChrystal, Stanley, 318, 320, 321, 323–25, 327
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 231, 329
McClellan, Scott, 96
McConnell, Michael, 205
McFadden, Robert, 113–14
MacFarland, Sean, 267, 268, 269
McGurk, Brett, 273, 274, 278, 282
McKiernan, David, 182, 190, 195–96,
318, 320
McLaughlin, John, 54, 56, 129, 140, 143, 226–27
McManaway, Clayton, 156
McMaster, H. R., 268, 285, 286
McNeill, Dan, 193, 320
McVeigh, Timothy, 202, 243
Madrid, 204
2004 bombing in, 125, 336
Mahmood, Sultan Bashiruddin, 215–16, 229
Malaysia, 90, 223
Maliki, Nouri al-, 278, 283, 292–93
Maloof, Mike, 137–38
Mannan, Mullah, 188
“Manual for a Raid,” 31
Maples, Michael, 228
Marines, U.S., 6, 81–82, 171, 267, 279, 282, 319, 320
Marri, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-, 118, 122–23, 124
Marshall, George C., 180
Marsh Arabs, 137
Masri, Abu Jihad al-, 346
Masri, Abu Khabab al-, 215, 346
Masri, Abu Walid al-, 6, 219, 220
Massoud, Ahmad Shah, 7, 8–9, 42, 54, 55
Mastrogiacomo, Daniele, 190
Mattis, James N., 82
Mauritania, 211
Mayfield, Brandon, 125
Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 60, 61
MBC, 298
Mecca, 12, 13, 21, 29, 32, 87
media, on Afghan war, 60
Medina, 12, 21, 29, 32
Meese, Mike, 285
Mehsud, Baitullah, 210, 211, 247, 263, 331–32
Mehsud, Hakimullah, 211
Mencken, H. L., 153
MI5, 204–5
Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, 4, 61
Mihdhar, Khalid al-, 38–39, 49
Milam, William B., 47
Milan, Italy, 98–99, 102
Milestones (Qutb), 22
Milewa, Afghanistan, 69
Miller, John, 25–26, 36
Ministry of Defense, Afghanistan, 176
Ministry of the Interior, Iraq, 164
Minneapolis, Minn., 243
Minneapolis Airport, 238
Mir, Hamid, 13, 32, 33, 133, 188, 214–15, 221, 259
Mitchell, James E., 111
MMA, 256, 264
Mohamed, Ali, 21, 38, 338–39
Mohammed, the Prophet, 11, 12, 25, 29, 30–31, 69, 75, 78, 184, 217, 235–36
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 110, 217, 308, 344
arrest of, 253
on bin Laden’s dictatorial powers, 25, 137
Faris recruited by, 123–24
interrogation of, 114–15, 116–18, 119–20, 123
and murder of Daniel Pearl, 249
9/11 planned by, 31–32, 33, 94, 110, 252–53
in transfer to Guantánamo, 113
Mohamud, Omar, 238
Mojdeh, Vahid, 6, 64
Moore, Michael, 343
Moorish Science Temple, 242
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, 204
Morocco, 100, 172, 210, 349
Morse, Phillip, 103
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 49, 122
MoveOn.org, 287
Moynihan, Patrick, 131
MSNBC, 158, 283
mubtakar, 226–27
Mudd, Philip, 205
Mueller, Robert, 54, 118–19
Muhammad, Abdulhakim Mujahid, 240, 242
mujahideens, 160–61, 320
bin Laden as, 7, 13, 14–16, 19, 23, 68–69, 78
numbers of, 16
Mullen, Michael, 180, 309, 318, 325, 329
Mumbai, 210, 236–37, 265
Munich Olympics, 91
Murad, Abdul Hakim, 37
Murrah Federal Building, 202, 243
Musa, Muhammad, 72
Musharraf, Pervez, 256–57, 258–60, 261–62, 265, 338
and al-Qaeda members’ arrests, 79
Muslim Brotherhood:
bin Laden possibly inducted in, 12
Qutb in, 22
Muslimoon, 14
Muttawakil, Wakil, 7, 41
Myers, Richard, 56, 81
Mylroie, Laurie, 134–37, 279
Nagl, John, 276, 277, 285
Nairobi, 21
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 268
Napoleonic wars, 279
Nariman House, 236–37, 265
Nasiri, Omar, 88
Nasr, Osama Hassan Mustafa (Abu Omar), 98–100
National Archives, 116
National Counterterrorism Center, 245
National Defense University, U.S., 221
National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan, 184
National Intelligence Estimate (2007), 204, 233, 261
National Security Agency, 76
National Security Council, U.S., 39, 44, 45, 47–48, 53, 134, 155, 207, 273
national terrorism alert, 129–30, 145–46
NATO, 59, 103, 181, 182, 185, 188, 189–90, 195, 264, 312
Naval Criminal Investigative Service, 113, 115
Nayef, Mohammed bin, 212, 304–5
Nazis, 57, 58, 153, 226
NBC News, 96
Negroponte, John, 171
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 138
New American Foundation, 308
New Delhi, 257
New Terror, The: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons, 43
New York, N.Y., subways in, 226, 234, 243
New Yorker, 140
New York Police Department, 127, 129, 202, 224, 226
New York Stock Exchange, 128
New York Times, 60, 70, 82–83, 84, 112, 141, 148, 159–60, 202, 227, 277, 287, 307–8, 315, 332
New York University, 172
9/11 Commission, 39–40, 42, 47–48, 49, 134, 137, 149, 245, 252
no-fly lists, 245
Northern Alliance, 7–9, 42, 54, 55, 57, 65
in Afghan War, 59, 60, 61, 62, 65, 68, 70, 80
Kabul captured by, 60, 62, 65, 68
Mazar-e-Sharif captured by, 61
Tora Bora monitored by, 70
North Korea, 153
North Waziristan, Pakistan, 185, 260
Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, 125, 183, 256, 337
Northwest plot, 304–6
Nuclear Terrorism (Allison), 227
Nunn, Sam, 96
Obama, Barack, xvii, 1, 287
Afghan war and, 314–15, 316, 321–26
on al-Qaeda’s desire for WMDs, 214
briefings on Zazi received by, 234
Cairo speech of, 238
detention and interrogation policies of, 116
Guantánamo closed by, 306–7, 308
Iraq surge criticized by, 283
in 2008 election, 194, 195
“war on terror” not used by, 303, 304
West Point speech of, 333
Obama administration, 293
Obey, David, 315
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 95
Odierno, Raymond, 273, 280, 283, 284, 285, 288, 289–90, 295
Office of Legal Counsel, 109, 111, 117
O’Hare Airport, 245
oil, 58, 172, 205, 210, 294–95, 336
Omar, Mullah, 62, 64, 82, 175, 185–86, 188, 220, 256, 261, 310, 322
bin Laden’s departure from Afghanistan desired by, 7–8
and 9/11 attacks, 7, 10
One Percent Doctrine, The (Suskind), 225–26
On War (Clausewitz), 58
Operation Together Forward, 274
opium, 190, 320
OPLAN 1003, 81
Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11 (Williams), 225
Osmani, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad, 62, 186
O’Sullivan, Meghan, 193, 272–74, 275, 278, 282, 284, 286–87
Ottoman Empire, 27, 276, 301
Oxfam, 162
Packer, George, 277
Padilla, Jose, 112
Pakistan, xvi, 4, 10, 15, 17, 20, 23, 36, 175, 186, 215, 247–65, 302, 310, 311, 322–23, 329–30, 347
al-Qaeda’s regrouping in, 247–48, 255, 262, 322
bin Laden’s escape into, 70, 82
elections in, 261–62
Karzai supported by, 65
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bsp; militants handed to U.S. by, 254
nuclear program of, 229, 247–48, 261, 322, 323
Taliban’s regrouping in, 247, 248, 255–56, 262, 329
unsealed border of, 72, 73, 186, 187, 188, 205, 219, 254, 339, 343, 345
U.S. aid to, 228
U.S. drone strikes in, 331–32, 346
U.S. peace agreements with, 260–61
Pakistani Frontier Corps, 79
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), 262
Palestine, 12, 18, 27–28, 32, 33, 46, 165, 188, 198, 217
Paracha, Sayfullah, 118
Paracha, Uzair, 118
Pashtuns, 63, 64, 176, 183, 186, 191, 193, 254–55, 312, 316, 339
Patriot Act, 116, 245
Paz, Reuven, 167
PBS, 201
Pearl, Daniel, 163, 210, 249–51
Pearl, Mariane, 249
Pearl Harbor, 39, 50
Pellegrino, Frank, 119–20
Perle, Richard, 135, 138
Peshawar, Pakistan, 14, 17, 18, 20, 29, 210, 248, 253
PETN, 304, 305, 306
Petraeus, David, 266, 271, 274, 276, 280, 284, 285, 286, 287–88, 290–91, 295, 312, 318, 325, 329
Philippines, 217
Piro, George, 149–50
Pocono Mountains, 241
Poland, 24, 113
Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (PCEG), 138
poppies, 190–92
Portland Six, 128
Powell, Colin, 54, 255
Geneva protections for prisoners desired by, 97, 104
UN presentation of, 142, 143, 145, 146
Prague, 142–43, 148–49
Qahtani, Mohammed al-, 107–8
Qaradawi, Yusuf al-, 297–98
Quadrennial Defense Review, 10
Quantico Marine Base, 240–41
Quetta, Pakistan, 185, 221, 253, 261
Qurairy, Jamal Abu Zeinab al-, 141
Qutb, Mohamed, 23
Qutb, Sayyid, 12, 22, 23, 32, 349
Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner, 150
Rahman, Omar Abdel, 29–30
Ramadan, 29, 66, 70, 75, 76, 78
Ramadi, Iraq, 266–67, 269, 289
Ramstein Air Base, 103
Rationalization of Jihad (Sharif), 299
Rauf, Abdur, 223
Rauf, Rashid, 208
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 253, 257
“Recognizing and Developing Countermeasures to Al-Qaida Resistance to Interrogation Techniques,” 111
Red Mosque, 257–58
Reid, Richard, 121–22, 124, 147, 234, 249, 305
Reilly, Nicky, 337
Republican Guard, 156
Ressam, Ahmed, 48
Rice, Condoleezza, 46, 52, 54, 154, 158, 194, 259–60, 278, 341
on biological terrorism, 42–43
in Cold War, 43–44
on flood of post-9/11 intelligence, 95
in testimony to 9/11 Commission, 42–43, 49
torture denounced by, 100
treatment of prisoners and, 104
ricin, 223–24
Ridge, Tom, 129, 146
Riedel, Bruce, 208, 311–12, 313, 314–15, 318, 322, 323, 325, 326
Risha, Abdul Sattar Abu, 267, 268, 289