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hit list, 379

Intelligence Support Activity (aka the Activity; Gray Fox), 51, 95–96, 120–121

Intelligence technology, and kill/capture operations, 105

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; Pakistan intelligence service), 168–169, 216

and CIA, 425–427

and Davis incident, 406, 415, 416, 417, 418, 425–427

and US, relationship between, 412–413

Interagency reviews, 16, 20, 24

Interagency Working Group for Covert Action, 16

International Committee of the Red Cross. See Red Cross

International criminal court, 8–9

International Crisis Group, 195, 228

International Institute of Islamic Thought, 46

International Monetary Fund, 64

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 329, 337–338, 339–340, 341

in Pakistan, 459

Interrogation and torture/techniques, 24–25, 26–30, 85, 261

at Camp NAMA, 147–160

and CIA, 86–91, 155–156, 244–245

and CJTF, 104–105

definition of, 88–89

investigation, 149–150

of Iraqi prisoners, by TF-121, 140

of Islamic Jihad members, 125

in secret prison, in Ethiopia, 128

and “Torture Memos,” 25

and “torture taxis,” 27

and use of dogs, 148

See also Secret prisons

IONA. See Islamic Organization of North America

Iqbal, Javed, 427

Iran, 230

Iran-Contra scandal, 11, 53, 91, 165, 215

Iran hostage crisis, 49

Iraq, 13, 282

civil war in, 164

suicide bombers/bombings in, 112, 165

See also Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)

Iraq and 9/11–Saddam and al Qaeda connection, 14–15, 28, 150

and CIA and Pentagon, conflict between, 81–84

and Zarqawi, 113

Iraq insurgency, 110, 111–115, 162–163, 165–166

and casualties, 174

causes of, 164, 166

and Copper Green, 145–146

and Fallujah, US siege of, 164

and hit list, 141–146, 150–151, 167

and insurgents, targeting of, 141–146

and Iraqi Special Operations forces, 165

and private security contractors, execution of, 163

and US invasion and occupation, 166

and US treatment of prisoners, 164, 166

Iraq Survey Group, 157

Iraq War/invasion/occupation, 8, 105

and Afghanistan, and unified task force, 138

and al Qaeda, post-invasion presence of, 141–142

and Awlaki, Anwar, 47

and Baath regime leaders, hunt for, 114–115

Blackwater in, 177

and Bremer as administrator of Coalition Provisional Authority, 110–111

and Bush, “Mission Accomplished” speech of, 111

and Cheney, 129

and contracting boom, post-invasion, 163

Copper Green in, 145–146

and de-Baathification process, 111

destruction of, 179

and Iraqi military, disbanding of, 111

and JSOC, 129

and JSOC, and kill/capture operations, 113–114

and Rumsfeld, 129

Salvadorization of, 165

shift of resources to, 138–139

Special Operations Forces in, 107

Special Ops/CIA reassigned to, 139

and Task Force 121 interrogation and torture of Iraqi prisoners, 140

and UN Baghdad headquarters bombings, 112–113

and WMDs, 15, 28–29, 82, 139, 150

See also Balad Air Base; Gulf War

Iraqi military, disbanding of, 111

Iraqi Special Operations forces, 165

Iryani, Abdul Ghani al-, 462, 463, 464

ISAF. See International Security Assistance Force

ISI. See Inter-Services Intelligence

Islam, Sheikh Ahmed “Madobe” Mohammed, 195, 200, 225, 394–395, 488

Islamic Courts Union (ICU), 192–195, 195–196, 225

and al Qaeda, 207, 209

and al Shabab, 196, 209

and CIA, and Somali warlord program, defeat of, 200–201, 201–203

and Ethiopian US-backed invasion of Somalia, 203–206, 206–209

and Siad, Yusuf Mohammed, 224

and targeted killings/drone strikes, in Somalia, 219–223

See also Militant organizations

Islamic Courts Union leaders

hunt for, 206, 223–226

and targeted killings/drone strikes, in Somalia, 219–223

Islamic Jihad, 62

rendition and torture of members of, 124

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, 252

Islamic Network, 289

Islamic Organization of North America (IONA), 288

Islamic Thinkers Society, 288

Isse, Mohamed Ali, 128

Jacoby, Lowell, 97, 158–159

Jaffer, Jameel, 514–515

JAG (Judge Advocate General’s Corps) lawyers, 156

Jama, Abdulkareem, 485

Jama’at al Tawhid wa’al Jihad, 112

Jamadi, Manadel al-, 157

Jamal, Abdul Rezzaq al-, 363, 463–464

Jawbreaker (CIA team), 22

Jessen, Bruce, 88, 154

Jihad Recollections (Kahn; online PDF magazine), 290

JIMAS (Association to Revive the Way of the Messenger), 37

conference, United Kingdom, 67–68

Johnsen, Gregory, 358, 380, 398, 399

and Arab Spring, 432

and Yemen, 130–131

Johnson, Jeh, 303, 312–313, 519

Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), 86–88

and interrogation and torture/techniques, 87–88

Personnel Recovery Academy, 87

Joint Prioritized Effects List (JPEL), 167, 331

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 48–57, 96, 100–101

and abuse of power, 142–143

and Afghanistan, night raids in

in Afghanistan, 138, 331, 332, 333

and al Qaeda, 53, 237

and al Shabab, 276–277, 490

and Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 509

and Awlaki, Anwar, drone strike against, failure of, 454

and Awlaki, Anwar, killing of, 498–500

and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound, 437–438, 439, 443, 452

“black” detainee program guidelines, 148

and Black Hawk Down incident, 55–56

and Blackwater, 177, 178

and Blackwater-CIA-JSOC covert action, in Pakistan, 251–253

and clandestine action, 282

and congressional oversight, 252

and conventional military in Iraq, relationship with, 142

counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN), undermining of, 329–331

and Davis incident, 416–418

and detainee operations, 151, 331

and drone strikes, 251, 284, 358

expansion of authority of, 297

and functioning command structure, 103

and Gardez raid/massacre, 344, 347

and global manhunt, 169–172

High Value Target Task Force, 115

and hit list/HVTs, 179, 325, 331, 333, 351, 352

and ICU leaders, hunt for, 223–226

increased presence of, 355

intelligence division ( see the Activity)

and interrogation and torture/techniques, 86–87, 91

and Iran, 138

and Iraq, 105–107, 113–115, 124, 129, 142, 174

and Joint Prioritized Effects List, 331

and JSOC-CIA divide, 170–171, 297, 350, 353, 388

and JSOC-ization of US counterterrorism policy, 350–351

and “Kill TV,” 303

and kill/capture center at Balad Air Base, 162, 166

and kill/capture operations, 113–114, 167

legality of operations, 182–183

and Maersk Alabama, hijacking of, 275–276

and Majalah massacre, 307–309

and McChrystal, reorganization of, 108, 110

and military and intelligence law, gray areas of, 92–94

missions of, 51–54

MLE as cover for, 170–171

and night raids, in Afghanistan, 331, 332 ( see also Gardez raid/massacre)

and Obama, 329

and Obama, prized ninjas of, 276

and Obama, transformation of, 259

and operations, expansion of, 297

and operations, intensification of, 350

and Pakistan, 168–169, 216, 217–218, 251, 406–413, 417–418

and Pakistan, HVTs in, 176, 177

as principal counterterrorism force, 114

rendition program of, 182

rise to prominence of, 181–182

role of, 50

and Rumsfeld, reorganization of, 98