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by Judith Miller


  Camp Alderson, West Virginia, 257

  Carter, Graydon, 268

  Carter, Jimmy, 63

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  anthrax letter attacks and, 151, 152, 165

  Bin Laden and, 149

  Bin Laden unit (Alec station), 146, 340n3

  Chalabi and, 156–57, 175, 189, 213, 232, 341n5

  coup of Saddam plan, 156

  “Curveball” fraudulent source, 209

  faulty intelligence and, 2, 3, 230, 282, 283, 285, 304

  FBI relationship with, 146

  HUMINT sources and, 182

  Iraqi defense contractor defector, Haideri, and, 158, 159, 246–50

  Iraqi military intelligence defector, Husayni, and, 182

  Iraqi nuclear scientist defector, Hamza, and, 157–58, 159

  Iraq’s links to terror and, 163

  on Mehdi Rezayat, 124

  National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s attempt to buy uranium ore and “yellowcake,” 242, 283, 307

  National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD of 2002, 165, 211, 215, 242, 243, 264–65, 283, 307, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16

  National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on terrorism, 135

  9/11 intelligence failures, 145–46, 149

  outing of agents, 351n1, 357n6

  PDB (Presidential Daily Brief), 164–65

  Plame case and, 282, 306–7, 312–13, 357n6

  Soviet biological weapons and, 197, 198

  Task Force 20 working with, 182–83

  terrorist training in Afghanistan estimates, 140

  Voz Island and, 115

  WINPAC, 283–84, 309–10

  WMD aluminum tubes intelligence, 213, 215, 216–17, 218, 219, 348n18, 349–50n7

  WMD in Iraq and, xi–xii, xiii–xiv, 2, 3, 163, 194, 210, 346n2, 347–48n17

  yellowcake claim and, 242, 282 (see also Wilson, Joseph C., III)

  Ceribelli, Diane, 205, 221

  Chalabi, Ahmad, 153–58, 200, 206, 208, 225–26, 228, 317, 350n9

  Bush adminstration and, 232

  charged with aiding Iran, 232

  CIA and, 156–57, 175, 189, 213, 232, 341n5

  Iraqi defector al-Haideri and, 154, 246

  Iraq insurrection attempted, 156–57, 341n3

  Miller joint byline story on, 188–89, 344n2

  neocons and, 157, 189, 207, 341n1

  reliability of, 233

  as scapegoat, 233

  75th Exploitation Task Force (XTF) and, 232–33

  as target of war’s critics, 232

  chemical weapons

  Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum and, 134, 339n5

  atropine as antidote, 178–79, 344n4

  in Iraq, xii, 2, 6, 26, 178, 179, 236, 344n4

  mustard gas, xii, 236

  Saddam’s attack on the Kurds, 16

  sarin nerve agent, xii, 179, 236

  VX nerve agent, 134, 179

  Cheney, Dick, 13, 214, 306, 311

  biological attack concerns, 150

  Chalabi and, 189

  Gulf War and, 12

  Iraq War and overthrow of Saddam decision, 167, 169–70, 212, 312, 342n6

  Miller and, 163

  neocons and, 341n1

  Plame case and, 282, 285, 305, 307, 308, 312, 313, 316

  post 9/11 response and, 164–65

  Saddam Hussein and, 14–15, 150

  “the surge” and, 311, 313

  WMD position, 212, 347–48n17

  yellowcake claim and, 242, 353n4

  Chicago Sun-Times, 242, 350–51n2

  Clarke, Richard, 137, 140, 142, 147, 239, 262, 291, 343n12

  Clarke, Torie, 174

  Clinton, Bill, 271, 291, 311, 335n6

  Aspin as Secretary of Defense, 64, 336n1

  Iraq bombing, 26

  Iraq WMD and, 210

  Lewinsky scandal, 131, 134

  Miller-Broad interview on biological weapons threat, 131–32, 338n1

  Operation Desert Fox, 132, 133–34

  Oslo Accords, 112

  regime change in Iraq, goal of, 156

  retaliatory air strikes, Afghanistan and Khartoum, 134, 338n3, 339n5

  Rwanda and, 90

  Somalia and, 64

  Clinton, Hillary, 19, 43, 166, 335n6, 342n6

  CNN, 136, 169

  Dobbs interview with Miller, after release, 355n17, 356n3

  Saddam’s genocide of the Kurds and, 16

  Cohen, Roger, 147, 175, 187, 190, 191, 290, 355n15

  Miller’s list of story ideas sent to, 194, 227

  Miller’s unanswered emails to, 227

  Coll, Steve, 337n2

  Colton, Liz, 86

  Columbia University, 49, 50, 51

  Colvin, Marie, 112–13, 319

  Comey, James, 243

  Committee to Protect Journalists, 320

  Commodore Hotel, Beirut, 69, 73, 86

  Company Man (Rizzo), 357n6

  Cooper, Matt, 241, 245, 251, 263–64, 273–74, 305, 350–51n2, 352n6, 357n4

  Costley, Denise, 269

  Cutchin, Ryan, 1–3, 17, 20, 21, 22, 28, 178, 179

  Cyprus, 45

  Dalglish, Lucy, 286, 321

  Daschle, Tom, 151, 222, 348n22

  Days of Fire (Baker), 342n9, 343n15

  Dean, Gordon, 37

  Dearlove, Richard, 350n1

  Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 15, 156, 159

  Chalabi and, 200, 233

  INC and, 190

  Iraqi defector al-Haideri and, 248

  WMD aluminum tubes intelligence, 218

  Deseret News, 33–34

  Deutch, John, 157

  Diamond, Edwin, 335n3

  Dionne, E. J., 95

  DNO (Norwegian oil company), 333n22

  Dobbs, Lou, 355n17, 356n3

  Doctors Without Borders, 127

  Dodd, Chris, 262

  Dodson, Angela, 93n

  Dole, Bob, 262

  Dowd, Maureen, 95–97, 265, 294–95, 356n20, 356n21

  Downwinders, 39

  Duelfer, Charles, 228

  Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq, 250

  as Iraq weapons inspector and UNSCOM commissioner, 4, 26, 119, 134, 343n16, 345n8

  as Miller source, 155, 160, 238, 239, 268, 348–49n2

  WMD in Iraq search and, 155, 250

  WMD report, 235–36, 339n6, 342n16, 344n4

  Duffy, Michael, 312

  Dwyer, Jim, 249

  Editor & Publisher, 318

  Egypt

  Israel and, 67

  jihadist groups in, 149

  Miller as Times’s Cairo bureau chief, xi, 5, 65–66, 81–87, 337n3

  Miller’s first visit in 1972, 45

  Mubarak as president, 13

  Mukhabarat (secret police), 74

  societal divisions in, 84

  Times office in, 65–66

  women in, 83

  ElBaradei, Mohamed, 220

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 280

  End of Iraq, The: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Galbraith), 333n22

  Endres, Michael, 344n1

  Engelberg, Stephen, xi, 98

  anthrax letter attacks article, 222, 348n22

  biological weapons reporting and, 117, 121

  Germs, with Miller and Broad, xi, 117, 122, 172, 174, 208, 223, 342n1, 342n4, 346n3

  leaves Times, 171–72, 346n7

  Miller in Afghanistan and, 141, 142

  Miller’s reporting and, 135, 137, 160

  post 9/11 coverage, 164

  Pulitzer for Al Qaeda series, 170–71

  Epstein, Jason, 220, 311

  heart problem, 250–51

  home in Sag Harbor, 101, 221, 293

  jailing of Miller and, 262, 273, 279–80, 352n7

  marriage to Miller, xi, 29, 112–13, 221, 293–94, 336n1

  Miller in Iraq War and, 184

  New York Review of Books and, 221

  Nile cruise with Miller, 103–4


  9/11 Commission report and, 339n1

  9/11 terrorist attacks and, 147

  political views, 29, 220

  Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and Miller’s book deal, 101–2

  Esposito, John, 110

  Explaining the Iraq War (Harvey), 343n11

  Fabrikant, Geraldine, 186, 187, 265

  Fahadawi, Qasim Mohammad Abed al-, 20–21

  Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia

  Gulf War and, 12–13

  interview with Miller and other female reporters, 13

  reforms by, 105–6

  Fair Game (Plame), 306–7, 308, 357n6

  Farber, Myron, 266, 286, 351–52n3, 354n9

  Farrell, Bill, 74

  Fawwaz, Khaled al-, 136, 137

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Al Qaeda and, 165

  anthrax letter attacks and, 152, 223, 342n4

  Chalabi leak to Iran and, 233–34

  CIA relationship with, 146

  lack of intelligence on Hamas, 110

  Plame leak investigation and, 243

  TWA Flight 800 investigation, 135

  WTC bombing of 1993 and, 111

  Feith, Douglas, 150, 167, 209, 341n1

  Financial Times, 66

  Finkielkraut, Alain, 88–89

  Finney, John, 42–43, 46–47, 50, 56

  Fitzgerald, Patrick J., 315

  Cheney as target of, 316

  Libby criminal trial and, 302, 304–6, 308, 309, 310, 311–13, 316, 357n7

  Miller prosecution and Plame case, 240, 243, 245, 246, 251, 262, 264, 271–77, 294, 315, 350–51n2, 351n1, 352n6

  Miller’s testimony before the grand jury, 282–85, 288, 289, 353n6

  partisan political pressure and, 313

  phone records case, 240, 241, 303–4

  as WTC bombing prosecutor, 315, 358n13

  Ford, Carl W., Jr., 219, 230, 291, 339–40n2, 349–50n7

  Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1

  Fox News, 318, 321, 345n9

  France

  anti-Semitism in, 89

  Beirut bombing of military compound, 66, 68

  Klaus Barbie trial, 88–89

  Kuwait bombing of embassy, 75

  Miller’s reporting from, 87–91

  terrorist bombings in Paris, 88

  Frankel, Max, 97

  Lelyveld succeeds, 102

  Miller promoted by, 93–94

  Nevada atomic testing and, 334n9

  shake-up at Times Washington bureau and, 98–99

  as Times executive editor, 93–94, 334n9

  as Times Washington bureau head, 54, 55

  Frantz, Doug, 290, 346n7

  Franz, Dave, 179

  Freeman, George

  as Times lawyer, Miller protection of sources case, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 272, 275, 276, 280, 294, 303, 321, 355–56n18

  Times termination of, 317–18

  Friedman, Tom, 67, 68, 69, 85

  Fuad Hussein, 24–25

  Galbraith, Peter W., 26, 332n15, 333n22

  Gardner, Howard, xiii, 331n1

  Gelb, Arthur, 49, 55, 89

  Gelb, Les, 61, 347–48n17

  Gellman, Bart, 188, 344n1, 353–54n7

  Gephardt, Dick, 166

  Germ Gambits (Smithson), 338n2

  Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War (Miller, Engelberg, and Broad), xi, 117, 122, 172, 174, 208, 223, 342n1, 342n4, 346n3

  Emmy award, xi, 223

  sources for, 150, 179

  Gerth, Jeff, 56, 95, 99, 135–36, 137, 217, 241, 265, 335n6

  Ghost Wars (Coll), 337n2

  Global Relief Foundation, 303, 304

  God Has Ninety-nine Names (Miller), 111, 135, 336n4, 337n3

  Golden, Soma, 93n

  Gonzales, Richard “Monty,” 3, 174, 180, 181–82, 183, 184, 190–91, 200, 202

  Good, David, 75

  Goodale, James, 252, 315

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 127

  Gordon, Anne, 292–93

  Gordon, Michael, 178, 223

  WMD aluminum tubes story and, 212–20

  Gordon-Hagerty, Lisa, 165

  Gore, Al, 166, 210–11

  Grass, Günter, 261

  Greenhouse, Linda, 95

  Greenspun, Hank, 32–33, 35, 334n2

  Griffin, Philip, 76

  Gulf War (1991), 64

  American casualties, 14

  Bush ends, 14

  Miller as Times “special Gulf correspondent,” 11–14, 102–7

  Saddam left in power, xiii, 14–15

  Saddam’s chemical weapons and, xii

  Gwertzman, Bernard, 47

  Haber, Eitan, 112

  Haberman, Clyde, 108

  Haddad, Yvonne, 110

  Hadley, Steve, 211, 355–56n18

  Hagel, Chuck, 19

  Haideri, Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-, 158–61, 207, 230, 246–50, 341n5

  Halperin, Mort, 61

  Hamas, 107–11, 128, 149

  funding linked to US sources, 108–11

  Hamilton, Lee, 19, 311

  Hamza, Khidhir Abdul Abas, 157, 159

  Handelman, Stephen, 338n1

  Hannah, John P., 341n1

  Harb, Sheikh Ragheb, 71

  Harlow, Bill, 215, 304

  Harvey, Derek, 314–15

  Harvey, Frank, 168, 343n11

  Hashim, Ahmad, 124

  Hashimi, Tariq al-, 28

  Hatfill, Steve, 342n4

  Hedge, Chris, 207

  Helms, Laili, 141–44

  Hersh, Seymour, 56

  Hezbollah, 78, 128, 149

  Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq (Duelfer), 250

  Hijazi, Ihsan, 69, 70, 73, 78

  Hikmat, Fouad, 20

  Hiltermann, Joost, 16

  Hindawi, Nissar, 203

  Hogan, Thomas F., 241, 251, 255, 258, 264, 271, 272, 279–80, 288

  Hoge, Warren, 106

  Holbrooke, Richard, 61, 336n1

  Holocaust, 88–91, 337n6

  Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, 303, 304

  Horrock, Nick, 55–56

  Huffington, Arianna, 267–68, 286, 351n4

  Huffington Post, 267

  Hurt, Harry, III, 261

  Husayni, Fadil Abbas al-, 180–84, 190, 230, 235–37, 344n5, 349n6

  Hussein, King of Jordan

  Miller and, 84

  Saddam and, 103, 154

  Ibrahim, Saad Eddin, 77

  Indian Springs, Nevada, 31

  Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, 243, 263, 351n1

  Iran

  American hostages in, 5–6

  biological weapons sought by, 123, 124, 197

  Islamic Jihad and, 67

  Lebanon and, 71–72, 336n3

  population of, 5

  revolutionary government, 5

  Revolutionary Guard, 71

  Saddam Hussein and, 3–4

  strengthening of, 27

  terrorists backed by, 73, 108

  terrorist training by, 76, 78

  WMD programs, 124–25

  Iran-Iraq War

  cost to Iraq, 102

  Miller covers, 5

  Saudi funding, 13

  US position of “realist” foreign policy, 5–6

  Iraq. See also Iraq War; Saddam Hussein

  Abu Ghraib prison, 178

  Al Hakam (main germ production facility), 119, 120

  Al Qaeda and, 18, 27, 181, 210

  Al Qaim, 219

  American abandonment of Shiites in, 16–17

  Arab nationalism and, 5

  Ba’ath Party, 5, 15, 28

  biological weapons, 2, 117, 118, 119, 133, 197–98, 338n2

  Chalabi and, 154–58

  chemical weapons, xii, 2, 6, 26, 178, 179, 236, 344n4

  Clinton air strikes against, 26, 132, 133–34

  democracy in, goal of, xiii

  Erbil, 174–75

  fate of, US withdrawal and, 23, 25–26, 28

  ISIS i
n, 28

  Kurds in, 8, 15–17, 19, 22, 23–25, 26, 28, 90, 156, 157, 174–75, 222, 332n15, 332n16, 333–34n22, 334n24

  Lake Habbaniyah, 21

  Miller in Baghdad, detention by authorities in 1985, 8–11

  Miller in Baghdad, hotel under fire in 1985, 6–7

  Miller’s first visit in 1976, 4

  Mukhabarat (secret police), 9, 157

  no-fly zones established, 16–17, 23–24

  nuclear program, xii, 2, 157–58, 159

  oil resources, 26

  Ramadi, 1, 17–18, 19–20, 28

  recovery of secret documents from in 1993, 15

  Shia of, 8, 16, 18, 27, 28

  Sunnis in, 2, 18, 19, 28, 358n11

  UN inspectors in, 133

  US Security Agreement and, 27–28

  WMD and, 119, 133–34, 155–56, 159, 161, 163, 165, 211, 215, 242, 243, 283, 307, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16

  Iraqi National Congress (INC), 155, 156, 159, 161, 208

  Baghdad headquarters, 190, 232, 233

  CIA and, 175, 213

  defectors and, 249

  Defense Department and, 190

  Erbil meeting, 174–75

  media information and, 232

  US military and, 189, 190

  Iraqi Officers Movement, 213

  Iraq Liberation Act (1998), 156

  Iraq War, xii. See also US Army

  Abu Ghraib prison, 26

  Abu Mahal tribe, Al Qaim and, 332n17

  American casualties, 17, 18, 25

  American misspending in, 22

  Anbar Awakening (Sahawa al-Anbar), 18–19, 21, 27, 332n17, 333n18

  Anbar Province, 1–2, 17–22, 28, 332n17

  Basra, search for WMD at, 3

  Bayji, search for WMD at, 3

  Britain and, 168, 195–96, 203

  Bush administration and decision for invasion, 17, 161, 163, 164, 165–66, 167, 169, 212, 272, 282, 284, 291, 312, 322, 342n6

  Camp Ramadi, 1, 2

  CFLCC (Coalition Forces Land Component Command), 178

  Congressional support, 166, 167, 210, 284, 342n6, 343n11

  embedded reporters in, 174, 353–54n7

  Fallujah, 28

  IED (improvised explosive device), 18

  Iraqi allies in, 18–19, 332n17

  Iraqi casualties, 25

  media faulted for “warmongering,” xiii, xiv, 188–90, 199–202, 205–23, 225–26, 229–31

  Miller embedded with the 75th XTF, xi, 1–3, 173–84, 187, 188, 190–91, 200–202, 210, 232–33, 285, 343–44n1, 353–54n7

  Miller’s concerns about, 194–95

  Miller’s list of story ideas and, 194

  MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) transport, 18

  neocons and, 154, 167, 168

  opponents of, 19, 168, 284, 311, 313, 343n12, 343n15

  “realists” and, 167

  regime “red line” Al Kut, 178

  “the surge,” xiii, 19, 25, 27, 311, 313–15, 333n18, 358n11

  undermining of faith in the press and, 323

  US costs, 25

  US misspending in, 22, 333n20

  US mistakes, 22, 27

 

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