Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars

408 powerful Pakistani firm:“Kestral Group of Companies,” Kestral Logistics, www.kestral-logistics.com/.

409 “We cannot help you”:Author interview, David McKeeby, November 2009.

409 “no operations of any kind”:Mark Corallo, e-mail to author, November 20, 2009.

409 federal lobbying records:Lobbying records filed on behalf of Kestral-USA, from the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed December 2012, http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=submit-SearchRequest.

409 Kestral had hired:Lobbying Report, required under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, Quarter 4 of 2009, Roger F. Noriega, with the DC-based consulting firm Vision Americas, on behalf of Kestral-USA.

409 Vision Americas:“Ambassador Roger F. Noriega,” Vision Americas website, accessed December 2012, www.visionamericas.com/noriega.php.

409 Christina Rocca:“Ambassador Christina Rocca,” Vision Americas website, accessed December 2012, www.visionamericas.com/rocca.php.

410 paid Vision Americas $15,000:Lobbying report, filed by Roger F. Noriega, Vision Americas, Quarter 3, 2009.

410 Firecreek Ltd.:See records of Firecreek Ltd.’s lobbying on behalf of Kestral-USA, Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed December 2012, http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=submitSearchRequest.

410 called it “conspiratorial”:Transcript, “DoD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon,” November 24, 2009.

411 “personal consent, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani”:US diplomatic cable 09ISLAMABAD2449, from Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, US Embassy Islamabad, “Pakistan Army GHQ Again Approves Embedding,” October 9, 2009, released by WikiLeaks, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/10/09ISLAMABAD2449.html.

411 “forward operating troops”:Author interview, Special Operations source, December 2010.

411 detailed information on refugee camps:US diplomatic cable 08ISLAMABAD3183, from Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, US. Embassy Islamabad, “Taskings for IDP/Refugee Information,” October 6, 2008, released by WikiLeaks, http://cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=08ISLAMABAD3183&q=for%20idp-refugee%20information%20taskings.

412 Forward Operating Base Chapman:See Joby Warrick, The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2011).

412 “Patient relationship-building”:Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, “Pakistan Army GHQ Again Approves Embedding.”

412 “well, we don’t”:Times Wire, “Bomb Exposes U.S. in Pakistan,” Tampa Bay Times, February 10, 2010.

412 civil lawsuit:Aliza I. Kassim, “Pakistan Defies U.S. Court in Lawsuit over Mumbai Attacks,” CNN.com, December 30, 2010.

412 blew his cover:Greg Miller and Karin Brulliard, “CIA’s Pakistan Chief Removed,” Washington Post, December 18, 2010.

413 “terrorist threats against him”:Ibid.

413 Davis returned to Pakistan:Kharal, “Retracing the Path.”

414 five CIA security personnel:Asad Kharal, “Retracing the Path: Trailing Raymond Davis,” Express Tribune (PAK), February 22, 2011; Matthew Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor, U.S. Officials Say,” ABCNews.go.com, February 21, 2011.

414 also used the house:Author interview, former Blackwater executive, March 2011.

414 gathering intel on the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba:Mark Mazzetti, “A Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance,” New York Times, March 12, 2011.

414 “area familiarization route”:Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor.”

414 “It’s acting without a script”:Author interview, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, May 2011. All statements and information attributed to Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer are from the author’s interview, unless otherwise noted.

414 “blood chit”:Raja Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators,’” Daily Times (PAK), February 15, 2011. The police report describes it as a “chit of the embassy.”

414 “small sheet of material”:Joint Publication 3-50, Personnel Recovery, January 5, 2008, IV-8, www.dtic.mil/dpmo/laws_directives/documents/joint_pu_3_50.pdf.

414 “after all other measure(s)”:Department of Defense memorandum, “Department of Defense Policy on Blood Chits,” July 20, 2006, www.dtic.mil/dpmo/personnel_accounting/documents/dod_policy_on_blood_chits.pdf.

415 crossed “a red line”:Nick Schifrin, “Did Ray Davis Shoot Two Pakistani Agents?” ABCNews.go.com, February 9, 2011.

415 “belonged to the security establishment”:Kamran Yousaf, “Raymond Davis Case: Men Killed in Lahore Were Intelligence Operatives, Says Official,” Express Tribune , February 5, 2011.

415 emphatically denied:“Agencies Rule Out Any Link with Lahore Killing Incident,” News International, February 8, 2011.

415 new chief of station:Rob Crilly, “Raymond Davis ‘Was Acting Head of CIA in Pakistan,’” Telegraph, February 22, 2011.

415 “a blessing in disguise”:Qaiser Butt, “‘CIA Agent Davis Had Ties with Local Militants,’” Express Tribune , February 22, 2011.

416 “Davis’s job”:Ibid.

416 false flag bombings:Ibid.

416 “All countries conduct espionage”:Colonel W. Patrick Lang, comment thread for post by Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “#Update: The Raymond Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/02/update-the-raymond-davis-affair-fb-ali.html.

416 “a paper-shuffling diplomat”:Mazzetti, “A Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance.”

417 drawn up plans:Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady, The Command: Deep Inside the President’s Secret Army (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2012, Kindle edition).

417 “detect, disarm, disable, or seize WMD”:Glenn W. Goodman Jr., “Deep Underground Tunnels: Counterproliferation Mission Takes SOF Commandos into Tough New Environments,” Armed Forces Journal, accessed November 2012, www.specialoperations.com/Literature/AFJI/CP.htm.

417 “second phase of the JSOC influx”:Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “The Fallout from the Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), March 1, 2011, http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/03/the-fall-out-from-the-davis-affair-fb-ali.html.

418 “following a government directive”:Kathy Gannon and Adam Goldman, “Pakistan’s Intelligence Ready to Split with CIA,” Associated Press, February 23, 2011.

418 more than 3,500 visas:Karin Brulliard, “In Aftermath of Shooting, Rising Skepticism About American Presence in Pakistan,” Washington Post, February 22, 2011.

418 “in a diplomatic capacity”:Asad Kharal, “After Davis’ Arrest, US Operatives Leaving Pakistan,” Express Tribune , February 28, 2011.

418 “special Americans”:Ibid.

418 “The ‘official’ version”:Ali, “The Fallout from the Davis Affair.”

418 pierced his stomach:Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.’”