Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars

446 “I spotted a pair of feet”:Ibid., p. 223.

446 “The courier’s AK-47”:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 221.

446 another group of SEALs:Owen, No Easy Day , p. 226.

446 they fell out of contact:Nicholas Schmidle, “Getting Bin Laden: What Happened That Night in Abbottabad,” New Yorker , August 8, 2011.

446 “big chunks of time”:Transcript, “Obama on bin Laden: The Full ‘60 Minutes’ Interview,” by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes , CBS, May 4, 2011.

447 “We were really in a blackout situation”:Interview with Barack Obama, Targeting Bin Laden .

447 “were set at ninety-degree angles”:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 230.

447 “Khalid”:Ibid., p. 231.

447 “What was Khalid thinking”:Transcript, “Killing bin Laden,” 60 Minutes, CBS, September 9, 2012.

447 fired two suppressed rounds:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 235.

447 “In that second”:Phil Bronstein, “The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden…Is Screwed,” Esquire, February 11, 2013, http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313. The account of the SEAL who shot bin Laden differs from Bissonnette’s in a few key places. “The Shooter,” as he is called in the Esquire piece, says that the women were tackled in the hallway, and that bin Laden was alive and standing in the room when the SEAL shot him in the face. He also claims to have been certain of bin Laden’s identity on sight. In his book, Bissonnette appears to assume that bin Laden was fatally shot as the SEALs were coming up the stairs. The differences are likely attributable to the men’s different positions in the house on the night of bin Laden’s death, and readers are encouraged to review both sources.

447 “We saw the man lying on the floor”:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 236.

447 “A hole in his forehead”:Ibid., p. 239.

448 “the American public doesn’t want to know”:Bronstein, “The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden.”

448 “With each swipe”:Owen, No Easy Day., p. 241.

448 “This had been carefully planned”:Ibid., p. 245.

448 questioned the older woman:Ibid., pp. 245–246.

448 “Geronimo E.K.I.A.”:Ibid., p. 247.

448 “We got him”:Interview with Ben Rhodes, Targeting Bin Laden.

449 “I’ve got a Geronimo call”:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 225.

449 gather as many of bin Laden’s belongings:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 252.

449 found two guns:Ibid., pp. 248–249.

449 “I saw soldiers emerging”:Qaswar Abbas and Sandeep Unnithan, “How Pak Is Trapped in Web of Deceit,” India Today, May 16, 2011.

449 “We never saw their clothes”:Transcript, Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, CNN, May 12, 2011.

449 “We all knew the risks of running out of gas”:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 251.

449 “We looked like a gypsy camp”:Ibid., p. 252.

450 the remaining stealth Black Hawk:Ibid., p. 253.

450 $60-million bonfire:Bob Woodward, “Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone Call Pointed U.S. to Compound—and to ‘the Pacer,’” Washington Post, May 6, 2011. The price tag of the helicopter was revealed when Woodward reported President Obama’s retort to the news of a SEAL lying down next to bin Laden’s corpse to measure his height: “We donated a $60 million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford a tape measure?”

450 1:00 a.m., just before the SEALs took off:Zahid Hussain, Matthew Rosenberg, and Jeremy Paige, “Slow Dawn After Midnight Raid,” Wall Street Journal , May 9, 2011.

450 “Inform me as soon as our helicopters are out”:Bergen, Manhunt, p. 228.

450 separate routes:Ibid.

450 On the tarmac in Jalalabad:Owen, No Easy Day, p. 262.

450 choppered out to the Arabian Sea:Schmidle, “Getting Bin Laden.”

450 “Traditional procedures for Islamic burial”:Associated Press, “Military Emails Reveal Details of bin Laden Burial,” CBSNews.com, November 22, 2012.

451 “Good evening”:Transcript, “Remarks by the President on Osama bin Laden,” May 2, 2011.

451 “did resist the assault force”:Transcript, “Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Killing of Osama bin Laden,” May 2, 2011.

451 seven of the eleven adults:Peter Bergen, “A Visit to Osama bin Laden’s Lair,” CNN.com, May 3, 2012.

451 According to Pakistani officials:Robert Booth, Saeed Shah, and Jason Burke, “Osama bin Laden Death: How Family Scene in Compound Turned to Carnage,” Guardian, May 5, 2011.

451 “The US administration made clear”:Amnesty International, Annual Report 2012, “United States of America,” 2012, https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/usa/report-2012.

452 “nature of the individual he was”:Transcript, “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan,” May 2, 2011.

452 forced to retract:Reuters, “Woman Killed in Bin Laden Raid Not His Wife: White House,” National Post, May 2, 2011.

452 issued a directive:Kimberly Dozier, “McRaven Tells Troops to Pipe Down,” Associated Press, The Big Story (bigstory.ap.org), August 12, 2012.

452 tried to trademark:Ethan Smith and Julian E. Barnes, “Walt Disney Surrenders to Navy’s SEAL Team 6,” Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2011.

452 access to sensitive material:Mark Hosenball, “Senate Panel to Examine CIA Contacts with ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers,” Reuters, January 2, 2013.

453 snatched by an amphibious team:Daniel Klaidman, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), p. 238.

453 transferred to New York and indicted:United States of America v. Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, indictment 11 CRIM 559 (DC Southern district of New York July 5, 2011), graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/Warsame_Indictment.pdf.

453 endured two months:Charlie Savage, “U.S. Tests New Approach to Terrorism Cases on Somali Suspect,” New York Times, July 6, 2011.

453 provide the ICRC:Executive Order No. 13491, 74 Fed. Reg. 4893, 4893-94 (January 27, 2009).

453 “This is illegal and inexcusable”:“U.S. May Have Violated Domestic and International Law in Capturing and Holding Somali for Months at Sea,” Center for Constitutional Rights, July 7, 2011, http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/u.s.-may-have-violated-domestic-and-international-law-capturing-and-holding-somali-months-sea.

453 anonymously boasted:Pete Williams and Jonathan Dienst, “Member of Terrorist Group Brought to US to Stand Trial,” NBCNews.com, July 5, 2011.

453 “I want Awlaki”:Klaidman, Kill or Capture , p. 261.

454 “knockout blow,” “running the table”:Ibid., p. 252.