Bilal, Mohammed, 239
Binalshibh, Ramzi, 3–4, 5, 6, 112, 115–16, 251, 252–53
bin Laden, Hamzah, 87
bin Laden, Muhammad, 13–14, 32, 34, 62, 78
bin Laden, Najwa, 18, 340
bin Laden, Omar, 19, 21, 69, 86–87, 222, 338
bin Laden, Osama, xv, 126, 154, 155, 172–73, 199
anti-Semitism of, 33, 57
as assassination target, 57
Azzam as mentor to, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 87
Baghdad office desired by, 151–52
and bombing of U.S. embassies, 21, 59
childhood of, 11–12
conspiracy views of, 23–24, 26, 27
on Danish cartoons, 236
in departure from Saudi Arabia, 19–20
dictatorial powers of, 24–25
in escape from Tora Bora, xvii, 34, 52, 70, 76, 77–79, 82, 84–85, 174, 337, 338
in expulsion from Sudan, 21, 22, 68, 134
failures of, xvi—xvii, xviii
and family construction business, 13, 14, 32
growing anti-Americanism of, 18–19
health of, 61, 85, 338
importance of, 335–37, 347–48
interviews of, 26, 27–28, 36, 61, 131–32, 299
Iraq invasion of Kuwait as seen by, 19, 131
Islamic criticism of, 298–99
leadership skills of, 93–94
misogyny of, 19
as mujahideen in Afghanistan, 7, 13, 14–16, 19, 23, 68–69, 78
on 9/11, 11, 27–28, 59–60, 61
and 9/11 planning, 4, 5, 24, 32, 33, 93–94, 252–53
Omar’s desire for departure from
Afghanistan of, 7–8
Palestinian situation as seen by, 12, 18, 27–28, 32, 33, 188
piety of, 11–12, 13, 34–35
poetry of, 68, 335
press conference of, 29
regime change in Islamic world as goal of, xvi, 92–93
reward for, 337–38
as secretive, 5
security for, 338–39
shyness of, 33–34, 35
in struggle with Massoud, 8–9
survivalist ideas of, 340–41
Sykes-Picot agreement denounced by, 27
Tora Bora redoubt of, 68–69, 73, 74, 76
U.S. believed weak by, 6–7, 9–10, 59, 93, 94
U.S. culture and, 27, 57
video and audiotapes of, 27, 33, 34, 59–60, 84, 85, 92, 237, 336, 338, 342–43
in visit to U.S., 18
war on U.S. declared by, 21–22, 29, 30–31, 32, 131, 304
WMDs desired by, 214–15, 216, 217, 220, 247
worldwide popularity of, 92
Zawahiri influenced by, 23–24
bin Laden, Saad, 163, 349
bin Laden, Safia, 33
bin Laden, Salem, 18
bin Laden, Uthman, 78
“Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in United States,” 37, 48, 50
Black, Cofer, 53–54, 57, 95, 133, 341
Black Hawk Down incident, 6, 20–21
Blackwater USA, 165
Blair, Dennis, 119
Blair, Tony, 198
Blinken, Antony J., 311, 312
Bobbitt, Philip, 100–101, 104, 105
Bodansky, Yossef, 225
Bonn conference, 66, 67, 154
Borger, Gloria, 148–49
Bosnia, 27, 65, 217
Bourgass, Kamal, 224
Bouyeri, Mohammed, 203–4
Bowling, Geneva, 123
Boyd, Daniel, 240–41
Bremer, Paul, 157, 158, 165
Brennan, John, 306
Brokaw, Tom, 96
Brooklyn Bridge, 118, 123
Brown, Lenna, 240
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 36
Burke, Jason, 140
Bush, George H. W., 44, 137
Bush, George W., 1, 51, 110, 245, 260, 278, 292, 297, 313, 314, 322, 341, 345
on alleged sleeper cells, 121
bin Laden ignored by, 42, 43, 335
briefed on bin Laden, 37, 49, 50
at Ground Zero, 52–53
on Iraq/al-Qaeda connection, 132, 134, 135–36, 150
on Iraq insurgency, 165, 166
Iraq surge of, xvii, 279, 283–84, 295–96
Lackawanna cell briefings of, 127
“major combat operations” declared ended by, 172
in meetings on Afghan war, 53, 54–56, 194
on morning of September 11, 51, 343
overseas prisoners transferred to Guantánamo by, 113
Pakistan border desired closed by, 72
post-9/11 speech of, 57–58
Abu Risha’s meeting with, 268
State of the Union (2003) of, 153
as “strong on terror,” 83–84
Tora Bora strategy defended by, 83–84, 85
in 2004 campaign, 83–84, 128, 129
“war on terror” launched by, 52
Bush (G. H. W.) administration, 41, 317
Bush (G. W.) administration:
and “light footprint” in Afghanistan, 52, 73, 180–81
“nation building” disdained by, 179, 196, 317
policy failures of, 40, 41, 42–47, 50
torture denounced by, 100
Cairo, 17, 238
“Call for Global Islamic Resistance, The” (Suri), 90–91, 203
Camp David, 54–56, 97, 280
Camp Jaker, 320
Camp Victory, 268
Camus, Albert, 197
Cannistraro, Vincent, 141
Card, Andrew, 51
Carney, Chris, 139
Casey, George W., 268, 273, 274, 280–81, 283, 294, 318
CENTCOM (Central Command, U.S.), 54, 80, 82, 83, 188, 273, 339
Center for a New American Security, 319
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 96
Chalabi, Ahmed, 138, 141
Chaudhry, Iftikhar, 258, 259
Chechnya, 26, 198, 217
Cheney, Dick, 43, 46, 51, 83, 158, 228–29, 284, 308, 313, 346
coercive interrogation defended by, 115–16
detention of prisoners authorized by, 103–4, 108
Iraq-al-Qaeda connection and, 135–36, 148–49, 150–51
Iraq surge and, 279–80
on 9/11 Commission, 39
smallpox attack feared by, 96–97
as target of suicide operation, 187
Tora Bora strategy defended by, 84, 85
China, 128, 314
Chomsky, Noam, 343
Churchill, Winston, 58, 254, 303
CIA, 33, 39, 42, 96, 136, 138, 208, 253, 261, 277, 278–79, 306, 317, 322, 339–40, 343, 345
Abu Zubaydah interrogated by, 111–13
Afghanistan operations of, 54, 55, 56–57, 59–60, 61–62, 65, 70–71, 72–73, 80, 82, 182
bin Laden paper of, 37, 48, 50
bin Laden unit of, 38, 139, 335–36, 349
Counterterrorist Center (CTC) at, 37, 53, 95, 101, 141, 205, 341
drones of, 44–45, 62, 127–28, 313, 331–33, 345–47
extraordinary renditions by, xvi, 101–3
failures of, 44–45
on Iraq-al-Qaeda link, 134, 139–40, 142–43, 144, 145, 147–48
Karzai supported by, 62–63
KSM interrogated by, 114–15, 116–18, 119–20, 123
suicide bombing against, 211
in Tora Bora battle, 70–71, 72–73, 76, 77–78, 80
waterboarding prohibited by, 113
Citigroup building, 128, 129
Citizen Police Liaison Committee, 250
Clarke, Richard, 39, 42, 45, 46, 48, 52
Clausewitz, Carl von, 58
Clinton, Bill, 98, 125, 134, 277
cruise missile strikes ordered by, 4, 46–47
Clinton, Hillary, 287, 327, 329
Clinton administration, 100
policy failures of, 40, 41, 42, 45–46, 47
sanctions on Taliban stopped by, 41
Cloonan, Jack, 146–47
CNBC, 148–49
CNN, 7, 81, 82, 104, 133, 158, 166, 224, 255, 303, 339, 342, 346
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 155–57, 275, 284
Cohen, David, 129
Cohen, Eliot, 194, 273, 277, 280, 295–96
Cold War, 18, 41, 43–44, 58, 219
Cole, USS, 26, 30, 45–46, 50, 127, 128, 134, 253, 304, 307
Coleman, Daniel, 37–38, 39, 106, 110, 139
Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP), 269
Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 227
Congress, U.S., Afghan War authorized by, 59
Congressional Task Force on Terrorism, 225
Constitution, U.S., 104
“Continuity of Government” exercises, 97
Cooper, Anderson, 303
Council on Foreign Relations, 273, 288, 318
Counterinsurgency Field Manual, 275–76, 277
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Galula), 276–77
Crane, Conrad, 276, 277
Crawford, Susan, 107
Cressey, Roger, 45, 46, 52, 95–96, 134, 348
Crocker, Ryan, 287, 288, 292, 295
Crumpton, Hank, 60, 65, 71, 73, 82, 91
Cuba, 104
Cuban Missile Crisis, 142
Customs, U.S., 221
Dadullah, Mullah, 187
Dannenberg, Robert, 101, 254
“Dark Winter,” 96
Daschle, Tom, 96
Daud, Mohammed, 191
Defense Department, U.S., 33, 49, 142, 317–18, 325
“big footprint” operations desired by, 40
casualty aversion of, 80, 81
failures of, 44–45, 54–55
plan for Afghan war lacking by, 54–55
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 138, 139, 141, 147, 228, 348–49
Degauque, Muriel, 169, 170
Delong, Michael, 80, 83
Delta Forces, 40, 71–72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82
de Mello, Sergio, 162
Denver, Colo., 243
Dera Ghazi Khan, 344
Derwish, Kamal, 126, 127–28
“Detention, Treatment and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War against Terrorism,” 104
Detroit, Mich., 209, 213
Detroit cell, 124, 304–5, 306
Detroit News, 124
Disneyland, 124
Dobbins, James, 65–66, 180, 181
Dodd, Christopher, 287
Dostum, Abdul Rashid, 60, 61, 176
Doucet, Lyse, 67
Dover Air Force Base, 326
Doyne, Brian, 170
Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S., 193, 326
Dubai, 90
Durrani, Ahmad Shah, 317
Dye, Jason, 185
DynCorp, 192
East Germany, 24
Egypt, xvi, 79, 141
Israel’s ceasefire with, 13, 23
in 1967 war, 12
torture in prisons of, 22, 98–100, 102
U.S. support for, 27
Zawahiri’s denunciation of, 22–23
Egyptian Islamic Group, 17
Egyptian Jihad, 4–5, 24, 30, 151
Eikenberry, Karl, 182, 261, 328–29
Eisenhower administration, 103
elections and campaigns, U.S.:
of 2000, 179
of 2004, 83–85, 128, 129–30, 342
of 2006, 278
of 2008, 194–95
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 17
Emanuel, Rahm, 313, 329
Encyclopedia of Jihad, 88, 222
Escobar, Pablo, 345
Evans, Jonathan, 204–5
extraordinary renditions, xvi, 98–103, 146
Exum, Andrew, 318–19
ExxonMobil, 209
Faddis, Charles “Sam,” 145, 216–17, 225
Fadl, Jamal al-, 38, 220
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia, 17
Fahd, Nasir bin Hamad al-, 217
Fahim, Mohammad, 176
Faisalabad, Pakistan, 253
Fallon, William J., 339
Fallows, James, 277
Fallujah, Iraq, 164–65, 290
Farenheit 9/11, 343
Faris, Iyman, 118, 123–24
Farouq, Omar al-, 188
Fazlullah, Maulana, 330
FBI, 37–38, 39, 44, 48–49, 89, 96, 107, 110, 114, 126, 136, 149, 205, 238, 240, 241, 245, 250–51
Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), 33, 254, 255, 258, 261, 332, 347
Feith, Douglas J., 52, 55, 137–38, 139, 155, 179
“Fight on, Champions of Somalia,” 237
Filkins, Dexter, 159
fitna, 17
Flournoy, Michèle, 312
Foley, Laurence, 161
Folsom Prison, 241
Foreign Affairs, 202, 274–75, 294
Foreign Policy, 97, 284
Fort Bragg, 339
Fort Dix army base, 241, 243
Fort Hood, Tex., 239
Fort Leavenworth, 276, 277
Forward Operating Base Rhino, 81–82
Fouda, Yosri, 114, 251–52
Fox, David, 66
Fox News, 49
France, 27, 343
Franks, Tommy:
Afghan War plan and, 54–55, 180
Iraq War plan and, 81
Tora Bora operation controlled by, 73–74, 83, 84, 85
Fury, Dalton, 71, 74, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82
G-8, 198
Gadahn, Adam, 235
Gallup poll, 28
Galula, David, 276–77
Gamsharik, Haji Zaman, 74, 77
Garrett, Brad, 101, 344
Garzon, Baltasar, 204
Gates, Robert, 1, 278, 283, 318, 320, 325, 327
Gaza, 338
Geneva Convention, 97–98, 103, 104, 108, 113
GEO Television, 259
Germany, 189
Ghaddafi, Muammar, 248
Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan, 253, 254
Ghaith, Suleiman Abu, 5, 217, 347
Ghanem, Alia, 11–12
Ghazi, Abdul Rashid, 257–58
Gilani, Mubarak Ali, 249–50
Gilani, Yousuf Raza, 264
Globe and Mail, 179
Godzilla (film), 123
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 140
Golden Mosque, 269, 272
Gonzales, Alberto, 242
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (Garrett), 344
Gordon, David, 182, 290, 292
Gore, Al, 179
Goss, Porter, 335
Government Accountability Office, U.S., 324–25
Graham, Bob, 134
Grand Hyatt, 210
Green Berets, 72, 80, 81
Green Laboratory Medicine Company, 223
“Greg” (CIA officer), 63, 66
Grenier, Robert, 62, 63, 158, 182, 344
Ground Zero, 52–53, 95–96, 234
Guantánamo Bay, xv, xvii, 47, 104, 163, 250
international view of, 120
legal issues with, 97–98, 104–6
Obama’s closing of, 306–7, 308
torture at, 106–7
Gujrat, Pakistan, 253
Gul, Hassan, 187–88
Gulf War, 19, 56, 76, 92, 163
Haass, Richard, 154
hadiths, 30–31
Hadley, Stephen, 42, 46, 47, 48, 54, 195, 260–61, 272, 274, 275, 278, 282, 284, 292
on Afghan War plan, 55
Hafez, Mohammed, 167
Hafs, Abu, 7
Hagel, Chuck, 284
Haider, Moinuddin, 79
Haiti, 65
Hajj, 87
Hakim, Baqir al-, 164
Hambali, 117
Hamburg, Germany, 30, 90
Hamdan, Salim, 47, 106
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 108, 113
Hamilton, Lee, 281, 282
Hammami, Omar, 238
Hanif, Abdul Haq, 186, 1
90
Hansen, Ron, 124
Haqqani, Amir, 185
Haqqani, Jalaluddin, 15
Haqqania madrassa, 248
Haqqani Taliban, 332
Harakat-ul-Jihad Islami, 236
Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, 87
Harbi, Ghanim al-, 79
Harvey, Derek J., 156, 285
Hasan, Major, 242
Hasan, Nidal Malik, 239–40
Hawali, Safar al-, 19
Hawsawi, Mustafa al-, 123, 253
Hayden, Michael, 112, 346–47
Hazara, 65
Hazmi, Nawaf al-, 38–39, 49
Headley, David, 235–36, 242, 2237
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 151, 162
Helmand, Afghanistan, 186, 319, 320
Hensley, Jack, 163
heroin, 190, 320
Hezbollah, 301
Hicks, David, 106
Hijazi, Farouq, 151–52
Hindu Kush, xvi, 335
Hiroshima, Japan, 218, 228
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 203–4
Hoffman, Bruce, 201–2
Holbrooke, Richard, 309–10, 312, 321, 328
Holocaust, 58
Hoodbhoy, Pervez, 215
House of Representatives, U.S.:
Appropriations Committee of, 315
Armed Services Committee of, 287
Foreign Affairs Committee of, 287
Foreign Relations Committee of, 281
Intelligence Committee of, 95
HSBC bank, 209
Hubayshi, Khalid al-, 70–71, 78
Huntington, Samuel, 92
Hussein, Saddam, 26
al-Qaeda’s alleged links with, xvii, 43, 51, 52, 132–52, 224, 294
bin Laden on, 131–32
Kuwait invaded by, 18, 131, 299
9/11 and, 52, 53, 55–56, 132, 135–36
1993 World Trade Center bombing and, 56, 134–35, 136
overthrow of, 159, 292, 318
weapons of mass destruction and, 59
Zarqawi’s criticism of, 144
Hussein, Zein al-Abideen Mohamed, see Abu Zubaydah
hydrogen peroxide bombs, 207–8, 243
Ibrahim, Mukhtar, 200–201
Imdadullah (suicide bomber), 183–84
improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 150, 162, 170, 185, 187, 188, 269, 290, 291, 317, 320
India, 79, 128, 210, 219, 248, 257, 259, 264–65, 301, 311
Indian Airlines, 249
Indonesia, xvi, 27, 120, 172, 302, 349
Initiatives Group, 285
Inside Terrorism (Hoffman), 201–2
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), 151, 294
International Atomic Energy Agency, 227
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 323
International Islamic Front, 29
International Monetary Fund, 128, 162
International Red Cross Committee, 113
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 181, 188
interrogations:
coercive, xv, xvii, 107–13, 114–19
noncoercive, 97, 100, 113–14, 149–50, 269
Iran, 12–13, 153–54, 175, 177, 227, 247, 264, 293–94, 347
Iran-Iraq War, 153
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