Jeremy Scahill - Dirty Wars

and Counterinsurgency doctrine, and JSOC, undermining of, 329–331

and counterterrorism policy, expansion of, 261

and detainee operations, and JSOC, role in, 151

as director of the Joint Staff, 328

education and military career of, 102–107, 109–110

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

and Gardez raid/massacre, 343

and Gulf War, 102

and insurgents, targeting of, 145–146

and Iraq insurgency, 113, 166

and Iraq insurgency, and AQI, 143–144

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

and JSOC, in Iraq, 105–107, 113–115

and JSOC, reorganization of, 108, 110

and JSOC, transformation of, 259

as JSOC commander, in Iraq, 113

and JSOC night raids, in Afghanistan, 331

and night raids, in Afghanistan, 347–348

and Obama administration, 258

and Pakistan, 168, 216

and Pakistan, HVTs in, 176

and Ranger training regime, revolutionizing and modernizing technology of, 102

resignation and retirement of, 348–349

and Saddam Hussein, capture of, 141

in Somalia, 201

and Special Operations Forces, in Iraq War, 107

and Taliban, support for, 331

and unified task force in Afghanistan and Iraq, 138

as vice director of operations for the Joint Staff, 106

and war against Islam, 110

and warrior scholar myth, 107–109

and Zarqawi, hunt for, 113, 166

and Zawahiri, hunt for, 175

McConnell, Mike, 250, 251, 256

McCormack, Sean, 193–194

McDonough, Dennis, 440

McGovern, Ray, 9

McKeeby, David, 409

McMahon, Colleen, 517–518

McRaven, Nan, 115

McRaven, William, 330

and Afghanistan, surge in, 328–329

and al Qaeda HVTs, strikes against, 236

and assassination policy, 352

and bin Laden, hunt for, 166

and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound, 420, 436–437, 439–441, 442, 443, 445–446, 449, 452

as commander of JSOC, 250, 344

as commander of SOCOM, 513

and counterterrorism policy, expansion of, 261

education and military career of, 115–117

and Gardez raid/massacre, apology for, 344–346

as head of SOCOM, 469

and Maersk Alabama, hijacking of, 276

and Obama, 276, 297

and Pakistan, 217

and Petraeus, 498

and Saddam Hussein, capture of, 140–141

and Saddam Hussein, hunt for, 140

and Saleh, Ali Abdullah, meeting between, 284

and targeted killings/drone strikes, 303, 307–308 ( see also Majalah massacre)

and unified task force in Afghanistan and Iraq, 138

Meet the Press, 20

Mehsud, Baitullah, assassination of, 251

Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander, 134, 137

Menkhaus, Ken, 123, 476

Mercenary companies, 177–178. See also Blackwater; Private military contractors

Mesopotamia, al Qaeda in, 113

Meyers, Seth, 441

Mihdhar, Khalid al-, 37, 40

Militant organizations. See Al Qaeda; Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; Al Shabab; Islamic Courts Union

Military, US, reorganization of, 12–13

Military and intelligence law, and gray areas, 91–94

Military bureaucracy

circumvention of, 93

privatization of, 12

Military commanders, circumvention of, 93

Military dominance, 8

Military Liaison Elements (MLE), as cover for JSOC, 170–171

Miller, Geoffrey, 148, 155

“Mission Accomplished” speech (Bush, George W.), 111

Mladic, Ratko, 52

MLE. See Military Liaison Elements

Mobility 6, 50

Mogadishu, Battle of, 125

Mogadishu, Somalia, 55–56, 120, 194, 225

Al Shabab in, 277

al Shabab strike in, 491–492

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

private security companies in, 485–486

Mohamed, Abdinasir, 300

Mohammad, Fashad, 157

Mohammad, Maulana Noor, 177

Mohammed, Abdullah Fazul, 223, 272, 294, 297, 487–488

and al Qaeda, 198–200

and al Shabab, 199–200, 298

and Black Hawk Down incident, 197–198

and CIA, and Somali warlord program, 199

death of, 489

and Dheere, 199

and Djibouti Agreement, 227

education of, 197

and Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, 226

and Hammami, 271

as HVT, 197

and Mombasa attacks, 119, 198–199

and Qanyare, 199

and US embassy, Kenya, bombing of, 119, 196–197, 198

and US embassy, Tanzania, bombing of, 119, 196–197, 198

Mohammed, Omar Bakri, 292

Mohsen, Ali, 462

Mombasa attacks, 119, 198–199

Moore, Joseph, 212

Morell, Mike, 436, 442

Morrell, Geoff, 410–411

Motel 6 (interrogation facility), 147

Moussaoui, Zacarias, 28

Mubarak, Hosni, 308, 430, 431

Mueller, Robert, 63, 72

and Awlaki, Anwar, interrogation of, 187

and Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 64

Mugisha, Nathan, 485

Muhajir, Abu Abdullah al-, 493

Muhammad, Abdulhakim Mujahid (aka Carlos Bledsoe), 260–263

and drive-by shooting at Arkansas recruitment center, 260–261

and FBI interrogation, 260

Mullen, Michael, 410, 427

and Afghanistan, 282

and al Qaeda, 256, 263

and Majalah massacre, 308–309

and McChrystal, resignation of, 349

and Yemen, 321

Muller, Scott, 156

Multi-National Security Transition Command–Iraq, 164

Multilateralism, 8

Mumbai bombings, 413

Muntasir, Abu, 37

Muse, Abduwali, 482

Muse, Kurt, 53

Musharraf, Pervez, 169, 216, 217, 245

Muslim and Arab communities, government harassment of, 43–44

Muslim Association of Britain, 134

Muslim Brotherhood, 134, 188

Muslimpad, 289

Mutallab, Alhaji Umaru, 317, 320

Myers, Richard, 908

Nabhan, Saleh Ali Saleh, 119, 198, 272, 396, 470

and CIA, and Somali warlord program, 199, 200

and Djibouti Agreement, 227

and Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, 226

and Hammami, 271

JSOC, targeted killing of, 295–296, 297, 299

JSOC hunt for, 294

Nadari, Shaykh Harith al-, 187, 235, 456

Nairobi, US embassy in, 120, 198, 199

Nakhleh, Emile, 15, 65, 211, 322, 326, 363, 467–468

and Awlaki, Anwar, web sermons of, 234

Nance, Malcolm, 58, 86, 163–164

and Camp NAMA, 155, 157

and ICU, and US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, 209

and JSOC, and targeted killings/drone strikes, in Somalia, 295–296

and Somalia, 205

National Command Authority, 92

National Counterterrorism Center, 255, 281

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 162

National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 95

National Missions Force, 98

National Reconnaissance Office, 95

National Security Act of 1947, 24

National Security Agency (NSA), 95, 99, 470, 471–472

and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound, 440

and Real Time Regional Gateway, 162

National Security Council, 29, 117, 325, 508

kill list, 351

National Security Decision Directive (NSDD), 51

National Security Presidential Directive, 17

National Security Presidential Directive-1 (NSPD-1), 16

National Security Presidential Directive-38 (NSPD-38), 171

National Security Service (NSS; Somalia), 472

National sovereignty, and assassination operations, 169

“National Strategy for Combating Terrorism” (Bush), 117

NATO, and Gardez raid/massacre, 338, 339, 340–341, 342, 343–344

Natural resources, dominance over, and neoconservatives, 8

Naval Postgraduate School, 116

Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), 51, 115, 438, 439

Navy SEALs. See US Navy SEALs

Naylor, Sean, 127, 199

Negroponte, John, 186, 207

Neoconservative leaders, 9. See also Cheney, Dick; Rumsfeld, Donald

Neoconservative movement