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Field Operations Group (FOG), 51

Find, fix, and finish operations, 50, 54, 171–172

Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, and Analyze (F3EA), 145

“The First and Exclusive Meeting with Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki” (al Qaeda video), 362

Fishback, Ian, 160–161

Flanigan, Tim, 24

Flynn, Michael T., 104–105, 174, 435

as commander of 111th Military Intelligence Brigade, 105

and F3EA: Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, and Analyze, 145

and insurgents, targeting of, 145–146

and Iraq insurgency, and AQI, 143

and surveillance drones, 162–163

FOG. See Field Operations Group

FOIA. See Freedom of Information Act

Footprint. See Copper Green

Ford, Gerald, 5, 10

Fort Bragg, 51

Fort Hood shooting, 285–287

and Awlaki, Anwar, 315–316

Forward Operating Base Chapman attack, 412

Foust, Joshua, 241, 362–363, 401, 432

Fox, Mark, 482, 483

Franks, Tommy, 77

Frazer, Jendayi, 207, 208, 222

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 73, 157, 346, 517, 518

Friedman, Milton, 18

Friedman, Thomas, 134

Fury, Dalton, 103, 108–109

Gandhi, 301–302

Gardez raid/massacre, 334–347

Afghan investigation of, 343–344

and Afghan Ministry of Interior, 337–338, 339

and Afghan police and US special forces, responsibility for, 335–336, 337, 340

and cover-up, 339–342, 344

International Security Assistance Force version of, 337–338, 339, 341

and JSOC, 344, 347

and McRaven, apology for, 344–346

and NATO, 338, 339, 340–341, 342, 343–344

and Sabir, Mohammed, interrogation of, 337

and Starkey, investigation of, 339–342, 342–343

and Taliban, 334

and UN, investigation of, 337, 339, 340

US military documents regarding, 346–349

US military version of, 338

Garrison, William, 125

Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed, 202, 203, 208, 209, 225

Gates, Robert

and Afghanistan, 282

and Arab Spring, 431

and Awlaki lawsuit, 369, 370

and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound, 441

and CIA-JSOC divide, 297

as defense secretary, 246

and Maersk Alabama, hijacking of, 274

and McChrystal, resignation of, 349

and Pakistan, 215–216, 411

and Somalia, 298

Gedi, Ali Mohammed, 193, 225

assassination attempt against, 225

as HVT, 206

and ICU, and US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, 208

Gelle, Dahir Mohamud, 299

Geneva Convention, 29–30, 96–97

and SOFs, 100–101

violations at Camp NAMA, 154

George Washington University, 38

Georgetown Day School, 71

Gettleman, Jeffrey, 473

Ghafar, Abdul, 336, 342

Gharbieh, Nabil, 72, 73

Gibbs, Robert, 510

Gillani, Yousaf Raza, 217, 458

Gingrich, Newt, 82, 302

Giraldi, Philip, 22, 96, 354, 422, 498, 505, 511

Global War on Terror (GWOT), 24, 194, 468

Godane, Ahmed Abdi, 196, 227, 493

Goldfarb, Michael, 246

Goldsmith, Jack, 296, 354

Gonzales, Alberto, 24, 244

Gorka, Sebastian, 313

Gosselin, Beth, 399

Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences at Cordoba University, Virginia, 46

Grady, D. B., 176

Graham, Lindsey, 161

Graham, Robert, 77

Gray Fox. See Intelligence Support Activity

Great Britain, mass arrests of Muslims in, 136

Green Berets, 168

role of, 50

Greenwald, Glenn, 302, 325–326, 425, 504

Greystone (GST) program, 24–25, 26

GST program. See Greystone program

Guantánamo prison

prison break at, 254

prisoner-abuse scandal at, 148, 160, 191

and Yemeni prisoners, repatriation of, 323

and Yemeni prisoners, transfer of, 256, 257–258, 259, 261

Guevara, Che, 49

Gulf of Aden, 66, 79

Gulf War 1991, 33, 102

and Awlaki, Anwar, 33, 43

and JSOC, 53

GWOT. See Global War on Terror

Hadi, Abd Rabbuh Mansur, 188

Hadley, Stephen, 17, 18

Haider, Faizan, 415, 418–419, 420, 428

Haider, Imran, 421

Halliburton, 12

Hammami, Omar (pseud. Abu Mansoor al Amriki), 270–271

Hanjour, Hani, 40

Haqqani, Husain, 425

Haqqani network, 334

Harad brothers, 455–456

Harakat al Shabab al Mujahideen. See Al Shabab

Harithi, Abu Ali al-, 75–77, 230–231, 236

Harman, Jane, 326

Harvard, 103

Harward, Robert, 330

Hasan, Nidal Malik, 240, 266–267, 285–287, 506

and Awlaki, Anwar, 315–316, 319

Hasan, Usama, 134, 137

Hassan, Ahmed Abdullah (aka Anas)

capture of, 294

imprisonment and interrogation of, in secret prison, in Somalia, 294–295, 296–297

Hastings, Michael, 106, 333, 349, 435

Hayden, Michael, 236, 248, 249, 354, 504

Hayes, Stephen, 84

Haynes, William, 24

Herridge, Catherine, 71, 73

Herrington, Stuart, 148

Hersh, Seymour, 10, 94, 145

Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG), 167

HIG. See Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

Higgie, Lincoln, III, 35–36

High Value Detainee program, 25, 86

High Value Target (HVT) Task Force, 115

and access to prisoners at Camp NAMA, 155

and Bagram Air Base, 167–168

four subunits of, 144–145

High value targets (HVTs)

in Afghanistan, 331, 333

and Concept of Operations (CONOP), 154

and deck of cards, 114–115, 143

and Fazul, 197

and JSOC, and Blackwater, 179

kill/capture list, and Awlaki, Anwar, 325–327

in Pakistan, 175–177

in Somalia, 119, 120–121, 219–223

See also Assassination operations; individual targets; Kill/capture operations

Hijazi, Ahmed (aka Kamal Derwish), 76–77

Hit lists, 121

and CIA, 23

in Inspire magazine, 379

and Iraq insurgency, 141–146, 150–151, 167

See also Assassination operations; High value targets; Kill lists

Hoekstra, Pete, 320

Hoh, Matthew, 332–334, 347

Holbrooke, Richard, 246, 332–333, 412

Holder, Eric, 396, 400–401

Holland, Charles, 59, 93–94, 114

Holy Land Foundation, 36

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, 281

Horn of Africa, 66, 79, 80, 270

al Qaeda in, 114, 123–124

US military presence in, 122–123

Horton, Scott, 329

and Camp NAMA, 151

and JSOC, and global manhunt, 171

and torture program, investigation of, 149–150

Hotel California (interrogation facility), 147

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 3, 100, 326

Houthi, Abdul-Malik al-, 131

Houthi, Hussein Badreddin al-, 131

Houthi rebellion, 62, 131–132, 213, 260, 280

Hull, Edmund, 75

Human intelligence operations. See HUMINT operations

Human rights groups, 77–78. See also Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch, 398

and Camp NAMA, 148, 159

and Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, 224

See also Human rights groups

Human thermal fingerprint, 173

HUMINT (human intelligence) operations, 95, 96, 145

vs. CIA, 171

in Pakistan, 250

and SOFs, 171

“Hunter” (secret informant), 180–184, 350

Hurre, Ismail Mahmoud “Buubaa,” 121, 126, 129, 203, 209

Hussain, Altaf, 458

HVT Task Force. See High Value Target Task Force

HVTs. See High value targets

ICRC. See International Committee of the Red Cross

ICU. See Islamic Courts Union

Iman University, 68, 184, 292

In the Shade of the Quran (Qutb), 188

Indha Adde. See Siad, Yusuf Mohammed

Inshallahshaheed (blog), 289

Inspire (AQAP magazine), 377–381