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46
Justin Davenport, “Airport Bomb Plot: Three Guilty,”
London Evening Standard
, August 9, 2008.
47
Aram Roston and Lisa Myers, “Disagreement over Timing of Arrests,”
NBC News
, August 14, 2006.
48
Barrie, “Tang Bomb.”
49
“Would Have Killed Thousands,”
ABC News,
August 6, 2007.
51
Jim Popkin, “Rail Security: Gov’t Warns of Terror Threat to Trains,” MSNBC.com, March 4, 2008.
52
Cahal Milmo, “How Web of Intelligence Led to Pakistan,”
Independent
, September 8, 2009.
53
Chris Greenwood, “Soft Porn and Condoms to Throw Security Off Scent,”
Birmingham Post
, April 5, 2008.
54
“Keelty Shocked at Suicide-Baby Bomb Plot,” AAP
/Daily Telegraph
, August 14, 2006.
55
Julie Hyland, “Contradictions, Anomalies, Questions Mount in UK Terror Scare,”
Global Research (Canada),
August 18, 2006.
56
Milmo, “How Web of Intelligence Led to Pakistan.”
57
Ron Suskind,
The Way of the World
(New York: HarperCollins. 2008), 43–45.
58
Ibid.
59
Carlotta Gall, “Pak confirms JeM, Qaida Links of Rauf,”
Times of India
, August 17, 2006.
60
US official, interview, August 24, 2009.
61
Kim Zetter, “NSA-Intercepted E-Mails Helped Convict Would-Be Bombers,”
Wired
, September 8, 2009.
62
“U.S.: ‘Do Your Attacks now’ Message Triggered Arrests,” CNN, August 11, 2006.
63
“Airline Terror Plot Foiled in UK Soon Before Planned Bombings,”
NewsHour
, August 10, 2006.
64
David Leppard et al., “Focus: Terror in the Skies,”
Sunday Times,
August 13, 2006.
65
Ibid.
66
Haroon Siddique, “Timeline: Transatlantic Airline Bomb Plot,”
Guardian,
September 8, 2009; Leppard et al., “Focus: Terror in the Skies.”
67
Joel Roberts, “Italy Arrests 40 in Security Crackdown,”
CBS News
, August 11, 2006; “UK/US Airliner Bomb Plot (UKUS-ABP) v1.5,” US Embassy-Paraguay, August 11, 2006.
http://paraguay.usembassy.gov/uploads/UT/an/UTanq3kpNUaoeZq7SnbJUw/UKUS-ABP-PUB-v1–5.pdf
.
68
Glenda Cooper, “British Charge 11 Suspects in Airliner Plot,”
Washington Post,
August 22, 2006.
69
Ibid.
70
“Agency Adjusts Liquid Ban, Aviation Threat Level Remains High,” TSA press release, September 25, 2006.
71
Richard Curran, “Will It Ever Be Safe to Fly Again?”
Sunday Business Post (Ireland),
August 20, 2006.
72
Michael Holden, “Airline Bombings Were Just Days Away: UK Police,” Reuters, September 7, 2009.
73
“Airliners Bomb Plot: The Verdicts,”
BBC News
, September 7, 2009.
74
Zetter, “NSA-Intercepted E-Mails.”
75
Andrew Alderson, “British Terror Mastermind Rashid Rauf ‘Killed in US Missile Strike,’”
Telegraph
, November 22, 2008; “UK Militant ‘Killed in Pakistan,’” BBC, November 22, 2008.
76
“Airline Liquid Bomb Plotters Jailed for 108 Years for Planning ‘Most Wicked Crime in Britain’s History,’”
Daily Mail
, September 14, 2009.
77
“Three Guilty of Airline Bomb Plot,”
BBC News
, September 7, 2009.
78
“Airline Liquid Bomb Plotters Jailed for 108 Years.”
79
David Byers, “Missionary Mohammed Gulzar ‘Was Airline Terror Plot Ringleader,’”
Times of London
, April 7, 2008.
80
Remarks by CIA director at DNI headquarters, January 19, 2007,
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2007/remarks_012207.htm
.
81
US official, interview, August 24, 2009.
82
Ibid.
83
Jon Clements, “Liquid Bomb Plot: US Spies Gave Key Evidence . . . After Killing,”
Mirror,
September 8, 2009.
CHAPTER 8: AN INCREASING PREFERENCE FOR LETHAL ENDS
 
1
“Osama No Longer in Control of al-Qaeda: US Ambassador,”
Pajhwok Afghan News
, December 12, 2005.
2
Susan B. Glasser, “Review May Shift Terror Policies: US Is Expected to Look Beyond Al-Qaeda,”
Washington Post
, May 29, 2005.
3
Ibid.
4
“Key Al-Qaeda Figure Died in Blast, Pakistan Says,”
Star Telegram
, December 4, 2005.
5
Craig Whitlock and Kamran Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander,”
Washington Post
, December 4, 2005.
6
“Key Al-Qaeda Figure Died in Blast.”
7
Ibid.
8
James Meek, “CIA Missile Strike Kills Key Qaeda Thug,”
Daily News
, December 4, 2005.
9
Sarah Baxter, “Al-Qaeda Chief Killed in Pakistan,”
Sunday Times (London)
, December 4, 2005.
10
Paul Watson and Ken Silverstein, “Senior Leader of Al-Qaeda Is Killed in Blast,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 4, 2005; Zeeshan Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed: Blow to Al-Qaeda as Blast Claims Its No. 3,”
Daily Telegraph (Sydney
), December 5, 2005; Meek, “CIA Missile Strike Kills Key Qaeda Thug.”
11
“Questions Surround al-Qaeda Leader’s Death,”
Voice of America News,
December 6, 2005.
12
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander”; “Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?” CNN, December 4, 2005.
13
Sarah Baxter, “Al-Qaeda Chief Killed in Pakistan,”
Sunday Times (London),
December 4, 2005; “Sources Say Key Al-Qaeda Operative in Pakistan Still Alive: Paper,”
Pakistan Observer
/BBC Monitoring South Asia, December 8, 2005; “Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?”; “Senior Leader of Al-Qaeda Is Killed in Blast.”
14
Zulfiqar Ali and Paul Watson, “Pakistani Journalist Abducted from Northern Tribal Area
,” Los Angeles Times
, December 8, 2005.
15
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander.”
16
Zeeshan Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed: Blow to Al-Qaeda as Blast Claims Its No. 3,”
Daily Telegraph
, December 5, 2005; Munir Ahmad, “Al-Qaeda Commander Killed in Pakistan,”
Independent,
December 4, 2005; Gretchen Peters, “Drone Said to Have Killed Al-Qaeda’s No. 3,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 5, 2005.
17
“Pakistani Tribe Shows US-Marked Missile They Claim Killed Two Boys,”
Irish Times
, December 5, 2005; Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander,”
Washington Post,
December 4, 2005; Ali and Watson, “Pakistani Journalist Abducted”; Haider, “Terror Kingpin Killed.”
18
Kim Pilling, “British Muslim Is Convicted of Being Mastermind for al-Qa’ida: Mancunian Was So Vital He Recruited Another Man to Carry Incriminating Files,”
Independent (London),
December 19, 2008; Russell Jenkins, “Diaries in Invisible Ink Help to Convict British Muslim Intent on Mass Murder,”
Times (London)
, December 19, 2008.
19
Jenkins, “Diaries in Invisible Ink.”
20
“Journalist Missing After Reporting al-Qaeda Death,” National Public Radio, December 9, 2005.
21
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast Killed al-Qaeda Commander,”
BBC News
, December 3, 2005; “Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?”
22
“Al-Qaeda No. 3 Dead, But How?”; “Pakistani Tribe Shows US-Marked Missile”; “Evidence Suggests US Missile Used in Strike,” MSNBC, December 5, 2005.
23
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander.”
24
“Sources Say Key Al-Qaeda Operative in Pakistan Still Alive”; Peters, “Drone Said to Have Killed Al-Qaeda’s No. 3.”
25
Peters, “Drone Said to Have Killed Al-Qaeda’s No. 3.”
26
“Questions Surround al-Qaeda Leader’s Death,”
Voice of America News,
December 6, 2005.
27
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander.”
28
Gretchen Peters, “Violence Grows in Pakistan’s Tribal Zone, Despite Army Presence,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 12, 2005.
29
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander.”
30
Ibid.
31
“Interview with Stephen Hadley; Interview with Hoshyar Zebari,”
CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
, December 4, 2005; “Al-Qa’ida Boss Dead, Insists Pakistan,” Associated Press, December 6, 2005.
32
Peters, “Violence Grows in Pakistan’s Tribal Zone.”
33
Whitlock and Khan, “Blast in Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Commander”; Rana Jawad, “Al-Libi, the ‘Face of Al-Qaeda,’” Agence France Press, February 1, 2008; “Senior al-Qaeda Member Reported Dead,” CNN, January 31, 2008.
34
DCI Michael McConnell, “Hearing of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 7, 2008.
35
Ibid.
36
US Air Force, “Air Force’s Hunter-Killer UAV Now Flying in Afghanistan,” Press Release, October 11, 2007.
37
US Air Force,
Factsheet: MQ-1 Predator;
and
Factsheet: MQ-9 Reaper.
38
“Reaper Scores Insurgent Kill in Afghanistan,”
Air Force Times
, October 29, 2007.
39
Jeremy Page, “Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base in Pakistan,”
Times of London
, February 19, 2009; Tom Coghlan, Zahid Hussain, and Jeremy Page, “Secrecy and Denial As Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants,”
Times of London,
February 17, 2009.
40
Imtiaz Ali and Massoud Ansari, “Pakistan Fury as CIA Air Strike on Village Kills 18,”
Telegraph
, January 15, 2006.
41
“Qaeda Vows to Fire Pakistan Nukes at US,”
english.aljazeera.net
, June 22, 2009.
42
Ali and Ansari, “Pakistan Fury”; Josh Meyer, “CIA Expands Use of Drones in Terror War,”
Los Angeles Times,
January 29, 2006; Craig Whitlock, “The New Al-Qaeda Central,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2007.
43
Meyer, “CIA Expands Use of Drones in Terror War”; Daniel Byman, “Targeted Killing, American-Style,”
Los Angeles Times
, January 20, 2006; Griff Witte and Kamran Khan, “Attacks Strain Efforts on Terror,”
Washington Post,
January 23, 2006.
44
Silvestre Reyes, “Hearing of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 7, 2008; John D. Rockefeller, “Hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Annual Worldwide Threat Assessment,” February 5, 2008.
45
Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock, “Al-Qaeda Commander Moved Freely in Pakistan; Libyan Killed Last Week Operated Openly,”
Washington Post
, February 4, 2008.
46
Jawad, “Al-Libi, the ‘Face of Al-Qaeda.’”
47
Ibid.
48
Craig Whitlock and Munir Ladaa, “Abu Laith al-Libi,”
Washington Post
, February 1, 2008.
49
Eric Schmitt, “Senior Qaeda Commander Is Killed by US Missile Strike in Pakistani Tribal Area,”
New York Times
, February 1, 2008.
50
Whitlock and Ladaa, “Abu Laith Al-Libi.”
51
Jawad, “Al-Libi, the ‘Face of Al-Qaeda.’”
52
Ibid.
53
Simon Santow, “Top al-Qaeda Operative Killed in Air Strike: Report,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 1, 2008.
54
Schmitt, “Senior Qaeda Commander Is Killed”; “Al-Qaida Figure Killed in Pakistan Attack,” National Public Radio, February 1, 2008.
55
Ali and Whitlock, “About Laith Al-Libi”; “Al-Qaeda Commander Moved Freely in Pakistan.”
56
Ali and Whitlock, “About Laith Al-Libi.”

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