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Terrorist Attack Disruption Strikes (TADS), 352

Terrorist leaders. See Al Qaeda leaders; Al Shabab leaders; Islamic Courts Union leaders; individual leaders; Taliban leaders

Terrorist rehabilitation program, 132, 254, 256, 257, 260, 278

TFG. See Transitional Federal Government

Theater Special Operations Commands, 98

Tillman, Pat, 349

Timimi, Ali al, 71–73

Top Secret America (Arkin and Priest), 105

Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, 81, 434–435

Torture. See Interrogation and torture/techniques

“Torture Memos,” 25

“Torture taxis,” 27

Townsend, Frances, 212–213, 456

Traditional Military Activities, 92

Transitional Federal Government (TFG), 226

Treadway, Brad, 322

Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS II), 69

Tremblay, Eric, 338

Trump, Donald, 441

Turki, Hassan, 393, 394

UAE. See United Arab Emirates

Uday Hussein, 111

Uganda, 272

World Cup fan bombings, 395

UN Baghdad headquarters bombings, 112–113

UN Monitoring Group, 485

“The Unblinking Eye” (drone stakeout), 172-173

United Arab Emirates (UAE), 481, 484, 485

United Kingdom, 67–68, 519

Awlaki, Anwar, in, 134–137

United Nations, 8

and Gardez raid/massacre, investigation of, 337, 339, 340

University College of London, 317

University of Minnesota, 32

University of Nebraska, 32

University of Texas, 115

Unlawful combatants, 148

Urban, Mark, 162, 166

US Agency for International Development (USAID), 33

US citizens

assassination strikes against, 314–316, 325–327, 367–369, 369–374, 391–392, 505, 517, 518 ( see also Awlaki, Abdulrahman; Awlaki, Anwar; Khan, Samir)

”Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen” (US Department of Justice), 514–515

recruitment of, by al Shabab, 297

as suicide bombers, 271, 396

US Congress. See Congress, US

US Department of Defense, 85–86

US Department of Justice

and assassination ban, 6

and CIA interrogation and torture/techniques, 244–245

“Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen,” 514–515

and lethal authority, 6

US Department of Labor, 36

US Department of State, 29, 409, 508

US Department of the Treasury, 190, 369

US election 2000, 36

US election 2008, 237–238

US embassy, Kenya, bombing of, 6, 125–126

and Fazul, 119, 196–197, 198

US embassy, Nairobi, 120

bombing of, 198, 199

US embassy, Sana’a, Yemen, bombing of, 235–236

US embassy, Tanzania, bombing of, 6, 125–126

and Fazul, 119, 196–197, 198

US embassy bombings, 6, 277

US intelligence

and Awlaki, Anwar, web sermons of, 233, 234–235, 238, 239–241

See also FBI; CIA

US intelligence law, and gray areas, 91–93

US military

and Gardez raid/massacre, version of, 338

kill list, 351

reorganization of, 12–13

US military aid

to Somalia, 476

to Yemen, 64–65, 236, 322

US Naval War College, 102

US Navy SEAL Team 3, 116

US Navy SEAL Team 4, 116

US Navy SEAL Team 5, 157

US Navy SEAL Team 6, 50–51, 98, 103, 108–109, 115, 116

and bin Laden raid and killing, at Abbottabad compound, 437–441, 441–450, 451–452

and Maersk Alabama, hijacking of, 275–276

US Navy SEALs

in Pakistan, 217–218

and piracy industry in Somalia, 483

and prisoner deaths, 157

Special Naval Warfare Group I, 116

US-Yemen joint operations, 307

USAID. See US Agency for International Development

USS Ashland, 230

USS Bainbridge, 274–275

USS Boxer, 274, 453

USS Cole bombing in Yemen, 16, 61, 62–63, 65–66, 130–131, 466, 467

and Quso, Fahd al-, 305, 318

and Yemen and al Qaeda suspects, 132–133, 210, 213

USS Halyburton, 274

USS Mount Whitney, 79

USSOCOM, 114

Uzbekistan, 17, 252

Van Tonder, Edgar, 480

“Vanilla” Special Forces, 50

Vibrant Fury, 179

Vickers, Michael, 282, 356–357, 436, 441, 491

Vietnam, 114

Vietor, Thomas, 508

Vinnell Corporation, 130

Volman, Daniel, 298

War

and presidential power, 3–4

right to declare, 19–20

War against Islam, 110

War Council, 24, 29

War on terror, 27, 30, 47, 54, 113, 193–194, 320, 384

War Powers Act, 9–10

Wardak, Aziz Ahmad, 338

Warlords, Somali

and bin Laden, 198

brutality of, 193

and CIA alliance, 191–195

hatred for, 195

US campaign to fund, 193–194

See also Dheere, Mohamed; Qanyare, Mohamed Afrah; Siad, Yusuf Mohammed

Warsame, Ahmed Abdulkadir, 454

and Awlaki, Anwar, 498–499

capture of, 453

Waterboarding, 89. See also Interrogation and torture/techniques

Waugh, Billy, 21

Wazir, Payo Jan, 218

Weaponized drones, 172. See also Drone strikes

Weapons of mass destruction. See WMDs

Webb, Marshall B. “Brad,” 442

West, Tony, 370

West Point, 109

Whitman, Bryan, 295

Wild West Domains, 287

Wilkerson, Lawrence, 21, 58

and Camp NAMA, 148

and Cheney, and presidential power, assumption of, 59

and Iraqi WMDs, 82

and JSOC, and abuse of power, 142–143

and JSOC, secrecy of, 329

and SOFs, 93, 94, 95, 99–100

WMDs (weapons of mass destruction), 417

and Iraq, 15, 28–29, 82, 139, 150

Wolf, Frank, 72

Wolf Brigade. See Special Police Commando Unit

Wolfowitz, Paul and Bremer, 110

and Cheney, defense plan of, 7–8

and drone strikes, in Yemen, 77

and Iraq and 9/11–Saddam and al Qaeda connection, 14–15, 82, 84

and JSOC, and global manhunt, 170

and 9/11 attacks, exploitation of, 19

and Somalia, 123

and Steele, 164

Woodward, Bob, 13–14

World Bank, 64

World Cup fan bombings, in Uganda, 395

Wright, Lawrence, 63

Wuhayshi, Nasir al- (aka Abu Basir), 210, 230–231, 306, 314, 315, 379, 467

and AQAP, 255

and Awlaki, Anwar, 381

as detainee at Guantánamo, 254

and Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 213

Wyden, Ron, 505

Yarmad, Merza Mohammed, 344

Yazeed, Abu, 377

Yemen, 32–33

and al Qaeda, recruitment in, 358

and al Qaeda, resurgence of, 130–133

al Qaeda in, 62, 64, 65, 66, 122, 210–214, 235–237, 255–256, 257, 268, 269, 304–305

AQAP in, 258–260, 262–263, 269, 281, 284, 298, 323–324, 386–389

and Arab Spring, 430–432

and Awlaki, Anwar, and US pressure to arrest, 234–235

and Awlaki, Anwar, indictment against, 391

and Awlaki, Anwar, surveillance of, 184–185, 187

CIA in, 387–388

cruise missile attacks in, 303–313, 358–359, 361, 376, 385, 500

drone strikes in, 75–80, 324, 465, 520–521

and Houthi rebellion, al Qaeda and Saudi support for, 131–132

JSOC in, 284, 303–304, 307–309, 321, 322, 387–389

Khan, Samir, in, 290–291

and mujahedeen-Soviet Afghan war, 62

prison break, 210–212

and public responsibility for US strikes, 357

and Saudi Arabia, collusion between, 254–255

SOFs in, expansion of, 261–263

suicide bombers/bombings in, 230–231, 308

targeted killings/drone strikes in, 284, 303–304, 307–309, 324, 356–357 (see also Gardez raid/massacre)

and terrorist rehabilitation program, 132, 256, 257, 260

US aid/assistance to, 64–65, 236, 322, 386

as US counterterrorism focus, 285–287