Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars

354 “where people are being killed”:Author interview, Philip Giraldi, March 2012.

354 sixty countries to seventy-five countries:Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe, “U.S. ‘Secret War’ Expands Globally as Special Operations Forces Take Larger Role,” Washington Post , June 4, 2010.

354 4,000 people:Ibid.

354 “Special Operations capabilities”:Ibid.

354 “will not merely respond”:Transcript, “Remarks by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan at CSIS,” May 26, 2010.

355 “ongoing unilateral actions”:Author interview, Special Operations source, June 2010.

355 “things that the previous administration”:DeYoung and Jaffe, “U.S. ‘Secret War’ Expands Globally as Special Operations Forces Take Larger Role.”

356 “We advise you”:Reuters, “Yemen’s al-Qaeda Calls for Jihad Against Jews, Christians,” Times of Oman , February 8, 2010.

356 United States struck again:Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Robert F. Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents,” New York Times, August 14, 2010.

356 “A US strike targeted our brother”:“Al-Jazeera Airs Audio Confirming Al-Qai’dah Deaths in Yemen,” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, May 17, 2010.

356 “Brigade of the martyr”:Shane, Mazzetti, and Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents.”

356 “ongoing counterterrorism cooperation”:Press release, “Undersecretary of Defense Visits Yemen,” Embassy of the United States, Sana’a, Yemen, March 22, 2010, http://yemen.usembassy.gov/udv3.html.

356 closed-door briefing:Congressional Record—Daily Digest, April 29, 2010, US Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2010-04-29/pdf/CREC-2010-04-29-pt1-PgD460.pdf#page=2.

356 internal e-mail:Author copy of e-mail.

357 president green-lit a strike:Daniel Klaidman, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), p. 255.

357 struck a convoy of vehicles:Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam, “Air Strike Kills Yemen Mediator,” Reuters, May 25, 2010.

357 his cousin Ayad:Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes, and Margaret Coker, “U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike,” Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2011.

357 “on a mediation mission”:“Yemen Strike Kills Mediator, Tribesmen Hit Pipeline,” Reuters, May 25, 2010.

357 Supreme Security Council apologized:“Air Raid Kills Yemeni Mediator,” AlJazeera.com, May 25, 2010.

357 attacked the main oil pipeline:Ibid.

357 “We think we got played”:Entous, Barnes, and Coker, “U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike.”

357 “How could this have happened?”:Klaidman, Kill or Capture , p. 255.

358 shift from JSOC’s Tomahawk strikes:Entous, Barnes, and Coker, “U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike.”

358 “The drones are flying over Marib”:Jeb Boone, Abdul-Aziz Oudah, and Shuaib M. al-Mosawa, “Marib Sheikh: US Drones Fly over Wadi Abida Every Day,” Yemen Observer, October 28, 2010, www.yobserver.com/front-page/10020035.html.

358 “At the end of the day”:Shane, Mazzetti, and Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents.”

358 series of US strikes:Hush Tomlinson, Michael Evans, and Iona Craig, “‘Secret’ US War on al-Qaeda in Yemen Killing Civilians,” Times (UK), December 9, 2010.

358 “It is incredibly dangerous”:Laura Kasinof, “US Cluster Bombs in Yemen: The Right Weapon in Al Qaeda Fight?” Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2010.

359 bold raid:BBC News, “Yemen Gunmen in Deadly Raid on Aden Security Service HQ,” BBC.co.uk, June 19, 2010.

359 launched a dozen attacks:Christopher Boucek, “The Evolving Terrorist Threat in Yemen,” CTC Sentinel 3 (9) (September 2010).

359 use of “motorbikes in terrorist operations”:“Yemen Bans Motorcycles in Qaida-Infested Abyan,” Xinhua , September 16, 2010.

359 “in retaliation to American cruise missiles”:Anwar al Awlaki, “Message from Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki to the American people,” YouTube video, 14:59, from a videotape released by Al-Malahem Media in March 2010, posted by “0109vip,” March 3, 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrdK6m9TKf8.

360 “the agency lacked specific evidence”:David Ignatius, “For Lack of Hard Evidence, a Terrorist Evaded Capture,” Washington Post , March 26, 2010.

360 “the Americans want to kill you”:Transcript, “Interview: Anwar al-Awlaki,” AlJazeera.com, February 7, 2010.

361 “circling our valley twenty-four hours”:Author interview, Saleh bin Fareed, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to bin Fareed are from the author’s interview.

362 “The First and Exclusive Meeting”:“Anwar Al Awlaki Al Malahem Interview [FULL] ENGLISH Translation,” YouTube video, 45:27, from interview with Anwar al Awlaki by Al-Malahem Media, May 23, 2010, posted by “EastLdnMuslima,” March 19, 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7o_PQkqntg&playnext=1&list=PLcFlly8jyVa04CYWvx-S9dYvik4J9NiBsy&feature=results_main.

362 “he’s literally middle management”:Author interview, Joshua Foust, January 2011. All quotations and information attributed to Foust come from the author’s interview, unless otherwise noted.

363 “I think it’s an exaggeration”:Author interview, Dr. Emile Nakhleh, January 2010. All quotations and information attributed to Nakhleh come from the author’s interview, unless otherwise noted.

363 “Anwar al Awlaki was not a leader”:Author interview, Abdul Razzaq al Jamal, January 2012.

363 “He never said”:Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Nasser come from the author’s interview, unless otherwise noted.

363 “always been looked at as a preacher”:Charles Fromm, “Yemen Refuses to Hunt al-Awlaki for US,” Inter Press Service, April 13, 2010. http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2991.

364 messages on websites:Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister, and Nic Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki,” CNN.com, October 24, 2012.

364 track star in high school:Darko Mar inkovi /VLM, Darko Pavi i, Renata Rašovi / VLM, “Al-Qa’idina teroristica Amina bila je vrsna trka ica na sto metara” [Al Qaeda terrorist Amina was a great 100-meter track star], Vecernji List (vecernji.hr), October 25, 2012.

364 “I was wondering will he search for second wife”:“The Terrorist’s Bride,” Jyllands-Posten documentary, 12:11, December 16, 2012.

364 “overjoyed”:Ibid.

364 suitcase outfitted with a tracking device:Ibid.

364 “If you visit her”:Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”