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Blood and Sand

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by Frank Gardner


  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.

  Also by Frank Gardner and published by Bantam Books

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  Bantam edition published 2007

  Bantam edition reissued 2014

  Text and line illustrations copyright © Frank Gardner 2006

  Revised Afterword © Frank Gardner 2007

  ‘Going Back’ © Frank Gardner 2014

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