Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars

426 “one of the most complicated relationships”: Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States, Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence, 111th Cong. 59 (February 16, 2011) (testimony of Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence).

426 “ready to split with the CIA”:Kathy Gannon and Adam Goldman (AP), “Case of Jailed American Causes Deep Rift in Pakistani Spy Agency’s Relationship with CIA,” Star Tribune, February 24, 2011.

426 refused to sign:Associated Press, “American: I’m Immune from Pakistan Murder Charge,” CBSNews.com, February 25, 2011.

426 “bogus references”:Gannon and Goldman, “Case of Jailed American Causes Deep Rift.”

426 another US security contractor:Declan Walsh, “Pakistan Arrests US Security Contractor as Rift with CIA Deepens,” Guardian, February 25, 2011.

426 “most significant events of the last 20 years”:“Another Mysterious American in Pakistan,” Outpost Washington (blog), Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, February 25, 2011, www.rferl.org/content/pakistan_raymond_davis_america_cia_isi/2321321.html.

426 fled the country:Asad Kharal, “After Davis’ Arrest, US Operatives Leaving Pakistan,” Express Tribune , February 28, 2011.

426 “have been strong”:Walsh, “Pakistan Arrests US Security Contractor as Rift with CIA Deepens.” Some officials claimed to be reviewing “thousands” of visas.

427 “Where do you go to think seriously”:General Jehangir Karamat, “The Oman Retreat,” Pakistan Today , February 26, 2011. Pakistan Today published the “readout” of the meeting in Oman between top US and Pakistani officials.

427 US delegation included:Kevin Baron, “U.S., Pakistan Military Chiefs Hold Secret Talks in Oman,” Stars and Stripes, February 23, 2011.

427 “They will do nothing behind our backs”:Walsh and MacAskill, “CIA Spy Escapes Murder Case in Pakistan After US Pays ‘Blood Money.’”

427 “CIA made no pledges”:Carlotta Gall and Mark Mazzetti, “Hushed Deal Frees C.I.A. Contractor in Pakistan,” New York Times, March 16, 2011.

428 wanted Davis tried and hanged:“CIA Contractor Ray Davis Freed over Pakistan Killings,” BBC.co.uk, March 16, 2011.

428 forcibly took:Huma Imtiaz, “Behind the Scenes of Raymond Davis’s Release,” Foreign Policy, March 16, 2011.

428 charged with murder:Walsh and MacAskill, “CIA Spy Escapes Murder Case in Pakistan After US Pays ‘Blood Money.’”

428 “I and my associate”:“CIA Contractor Ray Davis Freed over Pakistan Killings.”

428 “Now he can go anywhere”:Babar Dogar (AP), “‘Blood Money’ Frees CIA Contractor in Pakistan,” Washington Times, March 16, 2011.

428 “The diyyat provision”:Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “The Davis Saga ends,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), March 16, 2011, http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/03/the-davis-saga-ends-fb-ali.html.

428 “did not pay any compensation”:Transcript, “Remarks to the Traveling Press,” Cairo, Egypt, March 16, 2011.

428 made the payment:Gall and Mazzetti, “Hushed Deal Frees C.I.A. Contractor in Pakistan.”

428 “special” plane:“Did Davis Board Viper with His Victims’ Heirs?” News International, March 17, 2011.

429 headed for Bagram:Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai, “Blood Money Buys CIA Contractor’s Freedom,” Newsweek, March 16, 2011.

429 US drone strike:“US Drone Strike ‘Kills Forty’ in Pakistani Tribal Region,” BBC.co.uk, March 17, 2011.

430 confiscated his cart:John Thorne, “Bouazizi Has Become a Tunisian Protest ‘Symbol,’” National (UAE), January 13, 2011.

430 refused to meet him:Kareem Fahim, “Slap to a Man’s Pride Set Off Tumult in Tunisia,” New York Times , January 21, 2011.

430 nearby gas station:“Tunisia and the Spark That Launched Uprisings,” 60 Minutes, CBS, February 20, 2011.

430 “The first and probably most important change”:Anwar al Awlaki, “The Tsunami of Change,” Inspire 5 (spring 2011), released March 2011.

431 opened fire on the crowd:Adrian Blomfield, “Yemen Protests: Evidence Snipers Shot to Kill,” Telegraph, March 19, 2011.

431 “peaceful youth revolution”:Laura Kasinof, “Yemen General Says Opposition Will Be Ally Against Terrorism,” New York Times, June 22, 2011.

431 “political solution”:Indira A. R. Lakshmanan, “U.S. Facing Loss of Key Ally Against al-Qaeda Group in Yemen,” Bloomberg, March 22, 2011.

431 “I don’t think it’s my place”:Transcript, “Media Availability with Secretary Robert Gates from Moscow, Russia,” March 22, 2011.

432 “The feckless US response”:Author interview, Joshua Foust, March 24, 2011.

432 “could certainly have a negative impact”:Author interview, Gregory Johnsen, March 2011.

432 “Hello, Ammar?”:Author interview, Ammar al Awlaki, August 2012. The author relies on Ammar’s account of the meeting in Vienna.

434 construction on the residence:Peter Bergen, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden—from 9/11 to Abbottabad (New York: Crown Publishers, 2012), p. 3. For readers wishing to study the events leading up to the bin Laden raid and the raid itself, the most comprehensive books thus far on these events are Bergen’s Manhunt and Mark Owen, with Kevin Maurer, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (New York: Dutton, 2012).

434 narrow openings:Ibid., p. 4.

434 bin Laden unit was shuttered:Transcript, “Hunt for Osama Bin Laden Shifts Gears,” Morning Edition, NPR, July 3, 2006.

435 “number one goal”:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 116.

435 “I think we’ll get a call”:Michael Hastings, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan (New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012), p. 92.

435 identified by various al Qaeda figures:Michael Isikoff, “How Profile of bin Laden Courier Led CIA to Its Target,” NBCNews.com, May 4, 2011.

435 followed Kuwaiti’s white Suzuki:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 123.

435 “fortress”:Ibid., p. 124.

435 burned their trash:Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, and Peter Baker, “Behind the Hunt for Bin Laden,” New York Times, May 2, 2011.

435 grew their own vegetables:Bergen, Manhunt, pp. 12–13.

435 twenty-five ways:Ibid., pp. 125–126.

435 “throw in foul-smelling stink bombs”:Ibid., p. 126.

436 false Hepatitis B vaccination program:Saeed Shah, “CIA Organised Fake Vaccination Drive to Get Osama bin Laden’s Family DNA,” Guardian, July 11, 2011.

436 unable to get any DNA samples:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 127.