Midweek magazine 115, 139, 140
Miftah (Libyan minder) 245
Al-Mihdar, Abu’l Hassan 202, 203, 204, 207, 209–10
Milner, Alex 443–4
Mitchell family
kidnapping of in Yemen 197–8, 201
Mohammed, Khaled Sheikh 252, 341
Mombasa 302
Morley College 171
Moroccan Islamic Combat Group 308
Morocco 42–4
Mount Witney, USS 283
Moussa, Amr 312
Mubarak, President Hosni 60, 66, 236
interview 253–6
Muhammad, Prophet 50
Muhannad, Abu 478
Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) 81
Muncaster, Peregrine 49, 63, 64, 68, 74, 76, 85, 103–4
Nabataeans 117
Nairobi
bombing of US embassy 282
Najran 476, 477, 478, 479
Narcotics Anonymous (Kuwait) 227
Nasraller, Sheik
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 77
Nasser, Ossama 106, 218
Netanyahu, Binyamin 178, 179–80
New York 137–8
Newsnight 291–2
Nimitz, USS 192–3
Numeiri, President 97
Obaid, Nawaf 364
Oberwetter, James 361
Olmert, Ehud 446
Oman 217–18
British military exercise 256–8
Omand, Sir David 304
Omar, Colonel 475, 477, 478, 480
Omar, Mullah 350
Omar, Rageh 317
Operation Enduring Freedom 258
Operation Mountain Resolve 342, 343, 344
Osborne, John 35
Osman, Nabil 253–4
O’Sullivan, Eddie 174–5
Pakistan 351
Palestinians 303 see also Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Palmyra (Syria) 162–3
Pearce, David 198, 205–6, 207
Pearl, Daniel 220
Pearson, Katie 360, 407
Pearson, Mike (Amanda’s brother) 362, 363, 364
Pekes, Keren 234
Pelham, Nick 182
Peres, Shimon 178
Perrow, Mark 362
Petra (Jordan) 117–19
Powell-Tuck, Professor Jeremy 372
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) 336
Pyramids of Giza 75
Qaboos, Sultan 258
Qais, Imru’l 49
qat 195–6, 477
Qatif 461
Rabin, Yitzhak 178
Rahimtoola, Aly 434
Ramadan 150–1
Raouf (driver) 220–1, 253, 436–7
Rashaida 94
Real Story 404
Regev, Mark 445
Reza Pahlavi, Shah 45
Rice, Condoleeza 443
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) 21–4, 451, 454, 456, 463
bomb attacks on Western expatriates in (2003) 270–1
murder of Rodway in 238
shooting of Gardner and Cumbers in 25–32
Rodway, Christopher 238–40
Romilly, Stephen 338
Royal London Hospital 364–84
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore) 388–401, 407
Rumsfeld, Donald 282, 298, 327
Sadat Academy for Management Sciences 77
Sadat, President Anwar 58–9
assassination of 59–60
Saddam Hussein 260, 312–13, 325–6, 329
persecution of southern Shi’ites 319–20
invasion of Kuwait 142–3, 144–5
and UN inspectors 190, 323–4
and war with Iran 45
Sahara 53–5
Sainsbury’s (Cairo) 224
St Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai Peninsula) 222, 223
Sakaka (Saudi Arabia) 269
Saleh, President 210, 229–30, 277, 280, 282, 472, 483
Sarraj, Iyad 178–9, 181
SAS
and Iranian embassy siege 40–1
Sattler, Major General John 283
Saudi Arabia 228, 261–76, 303
Anti-Corruption Committee 459
arrest of Britons in
connection with bombings and staged
confessions 240–3
counter-terrorism campaign 21–2, 243, 271–4
expatriates’ fears of Islamist terrorism 20–2
insurgency of Al-Qaeda militants against government and Westerners 269–72, 273–5
Islamist militants in 186
murder of Rodway in car bomb 238–40
Mutawwa 456
oil production 19–20
raid on Al-Khobar by Al-Qaeda 15–16, 19
and September 11th 260–1
women 152
Saudi Aramco 20
Saudi International Bank (SIB) 113, 134–7
Sebastian, Tim 180
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) 109
September 11th (2001) 202, 251–3, 260, 276–7, 278, 350
Serbia 212
Shaban, Professor 39–40
Shaikh, Omar Said 219–20
Sharif (boss of perfume firm) 110, 111
Sharif, Safwat 253
Sharm El Sheikh 81–2
Sharon, Ariel 231, 303, 446
Shendi, Khaled 406
Simon H. 394–5, 425–6
Simpson, John 238, 378, 387
Sinai Bedu 82–3
Sinai Peninsula 79, 80–3
Slovenia 212
Solana, Javier 379
Somalia 275–6, 282–4
Southern Watch operation 193
Srodon, Paul 374
Stanmore Hospital 436
Steele, John 223
Stevie B. 136, 139
Stone, Duncan 378
Straw, Jack 435
Stu (gunshot-wound victim) 426, 432, 438–9
Sudan 87, 91–7
Suez Canal 80
Syria 114, 160–3, 232
Taliban 184, 259, 261, 267, 277, 298, 337–8, 340–1, 351
Tejan 433
Thames Valley University 172
Thatcher, Margaret 314
Thatcher, Mark 314
Thebes 86
Thesiger, Sir Wilfred 33–4, 94, 95, 112, 125, 130, 171, 188, 217–18
death 217
returns to Gulf for a visit 214–17
Time Out 115
Total Parental Nutrition (TPN) 372–3
Transjordan 122
Tunisia 51–3, 302
Turaik, General Muhammad 208
Umm Al-Qaiwan 193–4
Umm Qasr (Iraq) 318–19, 434
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
humanitarian mission in the Balkans 211–14
United States
attempt to prevent Al-Qaeda operations in Horn of Africa 282–4
and counter-terrorist campaign in Yemen 277–80, 287
flying missions over Iraq 193
intelligence 294–5
relationship with Yemen 230
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 280
UNSCOM 190
Veness, Sir David 304
Wadi Rumm (Jordan) 119–20, 126–31
Wahhab, Muhammad Bin Abdul 266
Waite, Terry 158
Wall Street crash (1987) 139
Wanless, Detective Inspector 354, 356
Ward-Lilley, Sarah 358
Wetterberg, Torbjorn 486, 487
Whitehouse, Lawrence and Margaret 204–5
Wise, Rupert 140, 145, 147, 148, 150, 314, 434–6
Wise, Linda
Witchalls, Abigail 392
Witney, John 306
Wood, Paul 354
Yahya (minder) 23–4, 25
Yates, Alastair 176–7
Yemen 112, 195, 277–8, 285–90, 468, 470, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476
arrest of British Muslims on suspicion of terrorism and guilty verdict 206–9
attempt to convince Al-Qaeda supporters in prison to renounce violence 285–7
counter-terrorist campaign aided by United States 277–81, 287
destruction of USS Cole by Al-Qaeda 230
failed Al-Qaeda bomb plot against British Embassy 288–90
kidnapping of Explore Worldwide tourist party 201–6, 210–11
kidnapping of Westerners 195–201, 209–10
killing of Al-Harithi by US intelligence 281–2
qat problem 195–6
relationship with United States 230
unification between North and South 228–9
weaponry in 195
Yom Kippur War (1973) 35, 58
Yousef 471, 472, 476, 477
Zapatero, Señor 309
Zinni, General Anthony 230
About the Author
Born in 1961, Frank Gardner is the BBC’s full-time Security Correspondent, reporting for television, radio and online on a wide range of UK and international security issues.
A fluent Arabist, with a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Frank was previously the BBC’s Gulf Correspondent in Dubai then Middle East Correspondent in Cairo. He has written for GQ, the Economist and the Daily Telegraph among other publications. His first book was this memoir, Blood & Sand. A bestseller in hardback and paperback, it was followed by a second bestseller, Far Horizons, in which he recalled his experiences as a passionate traveller to remote places.
Awarded an OBE for services to journalism and a winner of the prestigious El Mundo Prize for International Journalism, Frank Gardner is married with two children and lives in London. He is President of the Ski Club of Great Britain.
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