Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (New York: Viking Adult, 2008).
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Milan Ray, 7-7: The London Bombings, Islam, and the Iraq War (London: Pluto Press, 2006).
Maria A. Ressa, Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia (New York: Free Press, 2003).
Louise Richardson, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (New York: Random House 2007).
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (New York: Penguin Press, 2006).
Thomas Ricks, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 (New York: Penguin Group, 2009).
James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (New York: Free Press, 2006).
Linda Robinson, Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq (New York: Perseus Books, 2008).
Malise Ruthven, A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America (New York: Granta Books, 2002).
Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World (London: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Marc Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Ricardo S. Sanchez and Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
David E. Sanger, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (New York: Harmony, 2009).
Gary Schroen, First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (New York: Presidio Press, 2005).
Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1988).
Michael Sheehan, Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism without Terrorizing Ourselves (New York: Random House, 2006).
Philip Shenon, The Commission: the Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2008).
Jennifer Sims and Burton Gerber (eds.), Transforming U.S. Intelligence (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005).
Clive Stafford Smith. Eight O’clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay (New York: Nation Books, 2007).
Anne Stenersen, Al-Qaida’s Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction: The History Behind the Hype (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009).
Hew Strachan, Carl von Clausewitz’s On War: A Biography (London: Atlantic Books, 2007).
Abu Musab al-Suri, The Call for Global Islamic Resistance, published on jihadist websites, 2004.
Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of its Enemies since 9/11 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).
Dina Temple-Raston, The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror (New York: PublicAffairs, 2007).
George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: Harper Collins, 2007).
Kenneth R. Timmerman, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender (New York: Crown Forum, 2007).
Mark Urban, War In Afghanistan (London: Macmillan, 1988).
Ibrahim Warde, The Price of Fear: The Truth behind the Financial War on Terror (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007).
W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
Gabriel Weimann, Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges (Washington, D.C.: USIP Press, 2006).
Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Material Support: A Midwest Al-Qaida Case and the U.S. War on Homegrown Terror (Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
Bing West, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq (New York: Random House, 2008).
Paul Williams, Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven’t Told You (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004).
Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
Bob Woodward, Bush At War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).
Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006–2008 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).
Andy Worthington, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (Ann Arbor: Pluto 2007).
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Vintage, 2007).
David Wurmser, Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1999).
Mohammad Yousaf and Mark Adkin, The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower (London: Leo Cooper, 1992).
Rahimullah Yusufzai, Most Wanted: Profiles of Terror (New Delhi: Lotus/Roli, 2002).
Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life with the Taliban (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).
Ayman al-Zawahiri. Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet, excerpts published by Al Sharq al Awsat, December 2001.
Montasser al-Zayyat. The Road to al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden’s Right Hand Man (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2004).
Amy Zegart, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Selected Congressional hearings and reports
United States. House of Representatives. International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Prepared Testimony of Andrew Kohut, How the United States is Perceived in the Arab and Muslim Worlds. November 10, 2005.
United States. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq. 110th Congress, 1st session. http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf.
United States. Senate. Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments. September 8, 2006. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_rpt/srpt109-331.pdf
United States. House of Representatives. Foreign Affairs Committee. Prepared testimony of Peter Bergen. February 15, 2007.
United States. House of Representatives. Foreign Affairs Committee. Hearing on Extraordinary Rendition in U.S. Counterterrorism Policy: The Impact on Transatlantic Relations. April 17, 2007.
United States. Senate. Committee on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearing on Prison Radicalization: are terrorist cells forming in U.S. cell blocks? 109th Congress, 2nd session.
United States. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee. Prepared testimony of James Dobbins: Ending Afghanistan’s Civil War. March 8, 2007.
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives and Senate. Authorization of the use of Military Force. 107th Congress, 1st session. S.J. Res. 23. Washington, GPO: 2001.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today. 111th Congress, 1st session. S. Prt. 110. Washington, GPO: 2009.
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives and Senate. Joint hearing of the United States House of Representatives Select Intelligence Committee and the United States Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Washington, D.C., September 26, 2002.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Testimony of Abdirahman Mukhtar. March 11, 2009.
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Testimony of Robert Grenier. April 9, 2008.
U.S. Congress. Sen
ate. Committee on Armed Services. Inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. November 20, 2008.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Prepared Testimony of Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell. February 5, 2008.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Whether public statements regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information. 110th Congress, 2nd session. June 2008.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments. September 8, 2006.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee. Hearing on the subject of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. Washington, D.C., January 28, 2004.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Report on whether public statements regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information together with additional and minority views. Report 110–345. 110th Congress, 2nd session. June 2008.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Current and projected national security threats. 110th Congress, 1st session. January 11, 2007.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee. Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the threat in Afghanistan and beyond. 111th Congress, 1st session. October 2009.
U.S. Senate. Armed Services Committee. The current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States. 111th Congress, 1st session. March 10, 2009.
Selected speeches by Western government officials
Jason Amerine, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2010.
John Ashcroft, October 31, 2001, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
John Brennan, White House press conference, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/
briefing-homeland-security-secretary
-napolitano-assistant-president-counterterrorism.
George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 29, 2002.
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002, Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush, Address at West Point, NY, June 1, 2002.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2002.
George W. Bush, Cincinnati, OH, October 7, 2002.
George W. Bush, State of the Union, Washington, D.C., January 28, 2003.
George W. Bush, Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2003.
George W. Bush, Remarks with L. Paul Bremer, Washington, D.C., October 27, 2003.
George W. Bush, Greeley, Colorado, October 25, 2004.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005.
George W. Bush, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, OH, March 20, 2006.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007.
Dick Cheney, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.
Dick Cheney, Center for Security Policy, October 22, 2009, Washington, D.C.
Hank Crumpton, speech at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 14, 2008. http://csis.org/files/media/csis/press/080114_smart_crumpton.pdf.
Jonathan Evans, address to the Society of Editors, November 5, 2007, Manchester, England. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/
intelligence-counter-terrorism-and-trust.html.
Michael Hayden, Remarks at the Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., November 13, 2008.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Address, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, UK, October 1, 2009, www.iiss.org/EasySiteWeb/
GatewayLink.aspx?alId=31537.
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the president on a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan,” March 27, 2009, Washington, D.C.
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” West Point, NY, December 1, 2009.
Jennifer Pagonis, United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, Geneva, April 8, 2008.
Colin Powell, presentation before the United Nations, February 5, 2003, New York City. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/
news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un-17300pf.htm.
Condoleezza Rice, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, December 5, 2005.
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Arlington, VA, December 27, 2001.
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Camp X-Ray, Cuba, January 27, 2002.
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Operational Update Briefing, Arlington, VA, June 18, 2003.
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Arlington, VA, June 17, 2004.
Donald Rumsfeld, “New Realities in the Media Age,” Council on Foreign Relations, February 16, 2006. http://www.cfr.org/publication/9900/.
Selected statements by al-Qaeda leaders and other allied militants
Abu Mansoor al-Amriki. NEFA Foundation, transcript of al Shabab video from Abu Mansoor al-Amiriki, “A response to Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo,” July 9, 2009; http://www.nefafoundation.org/
miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefa_abuman soor0709.pdf.
Osama bin Laden, “Declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places,” published in Al Quds al Arabi, August 1996. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html.
Osama bin Laden statement, “Dangers and Signs of the Indian Nuclear Explosions,” May 14, 1998, author collection.
Osama bin Laden, December 13, 2001. Transcript available from CNN, translated by Department of Defense. http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/tape.transcript/.
Osama bin Laden, “The Will of One Seeking the Support of Allah Almighty, Usama Bin Laden.” Al-Majallah (a Saudi magazine), December 14, 2001. http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf, p. 222.
Osama bin Laden, videotape released to Al Jazeera after Battle of Tora Bora. December 27, 2001.
Osama bin Laden, “To the Americans.” 2002. Posted to Islamist websites and quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden. Ed. Bruce Lawrence. London: Verso, 2005, p. 165.
Osama bin Laden, “Message to our Brothers in Iraq,” Al Jazeera, February 11, 2003 (translated by ABC News).
Osama bin Laden audiotape, “A Message to the Americans,” aired on Al Jazeera, October 18, 2003.
Osama bin Laden, “Message to the American People,” October 2004. Quoted in Gilles Kepel, Al-Qaeda in its Own Words (Boston: Belknap Press, 2008).
Osama bin Laden. Al Jazeera, “Full transcript of bin Laden’s speech,” October 29, 2004. http://english.aljazeera.net/
archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html.
Osama bin Laden, “Statement,” December 16, 2004, posted on the Internet (translated by BBC monitoring).
Osama bin Laden. The Guardian Website has a useful chronology of statements by bin Laden and Zawahiri at http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/page/0,,839823,00.html where bin Laden’s February 20, 2006 statement can be found.
Osama bin Laden, translated by CNN, June 29, 2006, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRAN
SCRIPTS/0606/29/acd.02.html
Osama bin Laden, “The Way to Frustrate the Conspiracies,” December 29, 2007, translated by NEFA Foundation. http://www1.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/
nefabinladen1207.pdf.
Osama bin Laden, “From Usama to Obama,” January 24, 2010, released to Internet, translated by NEFA Foundation.
Omar Abdel-Rahman, Will. Distributed by his sons at a press conference organized by bin Laden on May 26, 1998. The card was translated into English for the first time in Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, pp. 204–205.
Abu Musab al-Suri, The Call for Global Islamic Resistance, published on jihadist websites, 2004.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, “Letter to Osama bin Laden,” Coalition Provisional Authority,
February 12, 2004.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, June 23, 2004. SITE Institute, Washington, D.C. www.siteintelgroup.org/terrorismlibrary/
communique/communique_1103219979.pdf.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Pool, Jeffrey (translator). “Zarqawi’s pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda.” Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor, December 16, 2004. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/
article.php?articleid=2369020.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, “Letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi,” July 9, 2005. www.rjchq.org/media/pdf/zawahiriletter.pdf.
Ayman al-Zawahiri. “The Open Meeting with Shaykh Ayman al Zawahiri,” Al Sahab, 2008.
Selected U.S. government documents
Central Intelligence Agency, Inspector General, Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities, May 7, 2004.
Central Intelligence Agency, “Khalid Shaykh Mohamed: Preeminent Source On Al-Qa’ida,” July 13, 2004.
Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General, “Report on CIA Accountability With Respect to the 9/11 Attacks,” released August 2007. http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/oig-911.pdf
City of New York. Police Department. Mitchell Silber and Arvin Bhatt, “Radicalization in the West,” http://www.nypdshield.org/public/SiteFiles/documents/
NYPD_Re port-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf.
Colin Powell, Memorandum to Counsel to the President, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, subject: Draft Decision Memorandum for the President on the Applicability of the Geneva Convention to the Conflict in Afghanistan, January 26, 2002.
Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,” dated April 2006.
Department of Defense, Detainee Biographies.
Department of Defense, Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, March 10, 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
transcript_ISN10024.pdf.
Department of Homeland Security, “Strategic Sector Assessment: U.S. Aviation.” May 18, 2006.
FBI Affidavit on Ali Mohamed, submitted by Special Agent Daniel Coleman, September 1998.
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