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35. “CIA Drone Kills Al-Qaida Operative.”

36. Bill Roggio, “Cross-Border Strike Targets One of the Taliban’s 157 Training Camps in Pakistan’s Northwest,” Long War Journal , August 13, 2008, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/crossborder_strike_t.php.

37. “Evidence Suggests U.S. Missile Used in Strike,” NBC News, December 5, 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10303175/#.USFX4Gckf5Q.

38. Craig Whitlock and Kamran Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al Qaeda Commander: Figure Reportedly Hit by U.S. Missile Strike,” Washington Post , December 4, 2005.

39. B. Raman, “Mystery Shrouds Top Terrorist’s Death,” Rediff.com , December 5, 2005, http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/05raman.htm.

40. “Al Qaeda No. 3 Dead, but How?” CNN, December 4, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/03/pakistan.rabia/index.html.

41. Yenne, Birds of Prey , 103.

42. Haji Mujtaba, “US Missile Parts at Pakistan Al Qaeda Site,” Information Clearing House, December 5, 2005, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11216.htm.

43. For the full story, see the important documentary “The Stories of a Warlord and a Journalist,” part 5 of Return of the Taliban, Frontline , PBS, October 3, 2006, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/view/main.html. See also “Evidence Suggests U.S. Missile Used in Strike.”

44. “Stories of a Warlord and a Journalist.”

45. “US Missile Parts at Pakistan Al Qaeda Site.”

46. Raman, “Mystery Shrouds Top Terrorist’s Death.”

47. “Blast Kills Al Qaeda Commander,” BBC News, December 3, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4494428.stm.

48. “AP Exclusive: Close Calls for Al-Qaida’s No. 2,” Associated Press, November 29, 2010.

49. Christina Lamb, “Airstrike Misses Al-Qaeda Chief: ‘Wrong Information’ Blamed for Pakistan Deaths,” Sunday Times , January 15, 2006.

50. Brian Ross, “U.S. Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker,” ABC News, January 18, 2006. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1517986.

51. “Pakistan: At Least 4 Terrorists Killed in U.S. Strike,” USA Today , January 17, 2006; “AP Exclusive: Close Calls.”

52. Elaine Shannon, “Can Bin Laden Be Caught?” Time , January 22, 2006.

53. “AP Exclusive: Close Calls”; Michael Hirsh et al., “Predator and Prey,” Newsweek , January 29, 2006.

54. Imtiaz Ali, “Pakistan Fury as CIA Airstrike on Village Kills 18,” Telegraph , January 15, 2006.

55. Ross, “US Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker”; “Pakistan: At Least 4 Terrorists.”

56. “AP Exclusive: Close Calls.”

57. Associated Press, “Pakistanis Protest US Airstrike,” Fox News, January 16, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181698,00.html.

58. Lamb, “Airstrike Misses Al-Qaeda Chief.”

59. Shannon, “Can Bin Laden Be Caught?” claims that thirteen died in the strike; “Pakistan Condemns Deadly Airstrike Targeting Al Qaeda Number 2,” Associated Press, January 15, 2006, reports the number as thirty.

60. “Zawahiri Strike Sparks Protests,” BBC News, January 14, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4613108.stm.

61. Associated Press, “Pakistanis Protest US Airstrike,” Fox News, January 16, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181698,00.html.

62. “Pakistan Condemns Deadly Airstrike.”

63. “Terror Chief Calls Bush a ‘Butcher,’” CBS, January 31, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-224_162-1255755.html.

64. “Pakistan Condemns Deadly Airstrike.”

65. William E. Alberts, “Remember Damadola,” CounterPunch , March 4–5, 2006, http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts03042006.html.

66. Hirsh et al., “Predator and Prey.”

67. Shannon, “Can Bin Laden Be Caught?”

68. Ibid.

69. Greg Miller, “War on Terror Loses Ground: Al Qaeda Is Regrouping in Pakistan, an Ally the U.S. Must Work with but Doesn’t Trust,” Los Angeles Times , July 27, 2008.

70. Bruce Rolfson, “Predator Was Involved in Zarqawi Assault,” Air Force Times , July 17, 2006.

71. Bill Roggio and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, “Pakistan Surrenders,” Weekly Standard , October 2, 2006, http://www.daveedgr.com/news/pakistan-surrenders/.

72. Gordon Corera, “Bomb Plot—The Al-Qaeda Connection,” BBC News, September 9, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7606107.stm.

73. “Pakistan School Raid Sparks Anger,” BBC News, October 30, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6099946.stm.

74. Christina Lamb, “US Carried Out Madrasah Bombing,” Sunday Times , November 26, 2006.

75. Anwarullah Khan, “82 Die as Missiles Rain on Bajaur: Pakistan Owns Up to Strike: Locals Blame US Drones,” Dawn , October 31, 2006.

76. Ibid.

77. Yousuf Ali, “Most Bajaur Victims Were under 20,” News (Pakistan), November 5, 2006.

78. Ibid.

79. Christine Fair, The Militant Challenge in Pakistan (Washington, DC: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010), 125.

80. “Pakistan School Raid Sparks Anger.”

81. Dan Gillmor, “Suicide Blast Kills 42 Pakistani Soldiers,” Guardian , November 8, 2006.

82. “Pakistan Says Planes Used in Raid,” BBC News, January 19, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6280153.stm.

83. Bill Roggio, “The Pro-Osama Meeting in Bajaur,” Long War Journal , October 29, 2006, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2006/10/the_proosama_meeting.php.

84. Associated Press, “Missile Strike in Pakistan Kills 4,” Washington Post , April 27, 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042701056.html.

85. Griff Witte, “Blast Kills at Least 20 in Pakistan,” Washington Post , June 20, 2007.

86. Barbara Sude, Al-Qaeda Central: An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group Headquartered on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border , Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Policy Paper (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, February 25, 2010).

87. Schmitt and Shanker, Counterstrike , 100.

88. “Musharraf Vows War on Militants,” BBC News, July 12, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6896179.stm.

89. “Scores Killed in Pakistan Attacks,” BBC News, July 19, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6905808.stm.

90. Ismail Khan, “Missile Kills 5 in Northwest Pakistan: U.S. Denies Attack,” New York Times , November 3, 2007.

91. Katherine Hubbard, Strategic Concerns, Historical Ties Make Pakistan Unwilling to Take On Haqqani Network (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 3, 2010).

92. Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, “Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say,” New York Times , August 1, 2008.

93. Elizabeth Rubin, “In the Land of the Taliban,” New York Times , October 22, 2006.

94. “Mullah Akhtar Usmani Named Successor to Mullah Omar,” Rediff.com , November 19, 2001, http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/nov/19ny7.htm.

95. Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: The US and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (New York: Viking, 2008), 370.

1. Greg Miller and Judie Tate, “CIA Focus Shifts to Killing Targets,” Washington Post , August 30, 2011.

2. Brian Glyn Williams, “Cheney Attack Reveals Taliban Suicide Bomber Targeting Patterns,” Terrorism Monitor 5, no. 4 (March 1, 2007): 2–5.

3. “A Strike against Al Qaeda,” Economist , February 1, 2008.

4. “Al Qaeda’s New Leadership,” Washington Post , September 8, 2007.