Dirty Wars (124 page)

358
“
At the end of the day
”:
Shane, Mazzetti, and Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents.”

358
series of US strikes
:
Hush Tomlinson, Michael Evans, and Iona Craig, “‘Secret' US War on al-Qaeda in Yemen Killing Civilians,”
Times
(UK), December 9, 2010.

358
“
It is incredibly dangerous
”:
Laura Kasinof, “US Cluster Bombs in Yemen: The Right Weapon in Al Qaeda Fight?”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 7, 2010.

359
bold raid
:
BBC News, “Yemen Gunmen in Deadly Raid on Aden Security Service HQ,” BBC.co.uk, June 19, 2010.

359
launched a dozen attacks
:
Christopher Boucek, “The Evolving Terrorist Threat
in Yemen,”
CTC Sentinel
3 (9) (September 2010).

359
use of “motorbikes in terrorist operations
”:
“Yemen Bans Motorcycles in Qaida-Infested Abyan,”
Xinhua
, September 16, 2010.

359
“
in retaliation to American cruise missiles
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “Message from Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki to the American people,” YouTube video, 14:59, from a videotape released by Al-Malahem Media in March 2010, posted by “0109vip,” March 3, 2012,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrdK6m9TKf8
.

360
“
the agency lacked specific evidence
”:
David Ignatius, “For Lack of Hard Evidence, a Terrorist Evaded Capture,”
Washington Post
, March 26, 2010.

360
“
the Americans want to kill you”
: Transcript, “Interview: Anwar al-Awlaki,”
AlJazeera.com
, February 7, 2010.

361
“
circling our valley twenty-four hours
”:
Author interview, Saleh bin Fareed, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to bin Fareed are from the author's interview.

362
“
The First and Exclusive Meeting
”:
“Anwar Al Awlaki Al Malahem Interview
[FULL] ENGLISH
Translation,” YouTube video, 45:27, from interview with Anwar al Awlaki by Al-Malahem Media, May 23, 2010, posted by “EastLdnMuslima,” March 19, 2012,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7o_PQkqnt-g&playnext=i&list=PLcFlly8jyVa04CYWvx-S9dYvik4J9NiBsy&feature=results_main
.

362
“
he's literally middle management
”:
Author interview, Joshua Foust, January 2011. All quotations and information attributed to Foust come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

363
“
I think it's an exaggeration
”:
Author interview, Dr. Emile Nakhleh, January 2010. All quotations and information attributed to Nakhleh come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

363
“
Anwar al Awlaki was not a leader
”:
Author interview, Abdul Razzaq al Jamal, January 2012.

363
“
He never said
”:
Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Nasser come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

363
“
always been looked at as a preacher
”:
Charles Fromm, “Yemen Refuses to Hunt al-Awlaki for US,” Inter Press Service, April 13, 2010.
http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2991
.

364
messages on websites
:
Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister, and Nic Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki,”
CNN.com
, October 24, 2012.

364
track star in high school
:
Darko Mar inkovi/VLM, Darko Pavi i, Renata RaÅ¡ovi/VLM, “Al-Qa'idina teroristica Amina bila je vrsna trka ica na sto metara” [Al Qaeda terrorist Amina was a great 100-meter track star],
Vecernji List
(
vecernji.hr
), October 25, 2012.

364
“
I was wondering will he search for second wife
”:
“The Terrorist's Bride,”
Jyllands-Posten
documentary, 12:11, December 16, 2012.

364
“
overjoyed
”:
Ibid.

364
suitcase outfitted with a tracking device
:
Ibid.

364
“
If you visit her
”:
Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”

365
international bus station
:
Ibid.

365
multiple receipts
:
“The Terrorist's Bride,”
Jyllands-Posten
documentary.

365
“
done specifically for Sister Aminah
”:
Ibid.

365
“
nervous
”:
Ibid.

365
“
it's me without the scarf
”:
Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”

365
“
Warm weather clothing
”:
“The Terrorist's Bride,”
Jyllands-Posten
documentary.

365
“
the Hook,” “the sister
”:
Ibid.

365
“
We sat there, had a barbecue
”:
Ibid.

365
“
Congratulations brother
”:
Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”

366
handcuffed to the briefcase
:
“The Terrorist's Bride,”
Jyllands-Posten
documentary.

366
“
Try 007”
: Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”

366
Multiple sources confirmed
:
“The Terrorist's Bride,”
Jyllands-Posten
documentary.

366
could not bring her suitcase
:
Ibid.

366
sent Storm a message
:
Cruickshank, Lister, and Robertson, “The Danish Agent, the Croatian Blonde and the Plot to Get al-Awlaki.”

367
“
I don't support it—period
”:
Author interview, Representative Dennis Kucinich, February 2010. All quotations and information attributed to Representative Kucinich come from the author's interview.

368
introduced a bill
:
To Prohibit the Extrajudicial Killing of United States Citizens, and for Other Purposes, H.R. 6010, IIIth Cong. (July 30, 2010).

368
“
almost a dozen
”:
Dina Temple-Raston, “U.S. Turns Up Heat on Internet Imam
Awlaki,”
Morning Edition
, NPR, July 29, 2010.

368
“
a very important opportunity
”:
Author interview, Pardiss Kebriaei, March 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Kebriaei come from the author's interview.

369
legal partners in Yemen
:
“Obama Administration Claims Unchecked Authority to Kill Americans Outside Combat Zones; Federal Court Hears Arguments Today in ACLU and CCR Case Challenging Administration's Claimed Authority to Assassinate Americans It Designates Threats,” Center for Constitutional Rights and American Civil Liberties Union, November 8, 2010.

369
“
I will do my best
”:
Paula Newton, “CNN Exclusive: Al-Awlaki's Father Says Son Is ‘Not Osama bin Laden,'”
CNN.com
, January 11, 2010.

369
“
involved himself in every aspect
”:
“Treasury Designates Anwar al-Awlaki Key Leader of AQAP,” U.S. Treasury Department, July 16, 2010.

369
sued the Treasury Department
:
ACLU and CCR v. Geithner, 1:10-cv-013 (DDC August 3, 2010).

369
allowing the lawyers
:
“CCR and ACLU Receive License from OFAC to Pursue Challenge to Targeted Killing,” American Civil Liberties Union, August 4, 2010.

369
“
The summary use of force
”:
Nasser Al-Aulaqi v. Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta (“Al-Aulaqi v. Obama et al.”), 1:10-cv-01469-JDB (DDC August 30, 2010).

370
“
puts directly at issue
”:
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama et al., 1:10-cv-01469-JDB (DDC September 25, 2010).

370
“
to protect intelligence sources
”:
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, 1:10-cv-01469-JDB, “Declaration and Formal Claim of State Secrets Privilege and Statutory Privileges by Leon E. Panetta, Director, Central Intelligence Agency” (DDC September 25, 2010).

370
“
exceptionally grave harm
”:
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, Case 1:10-cv-01469-JDB, “Public Declaration and Assertion of Military and State Secrets Privilege by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense” (DDC September 25, 2010).

370
“
The government's sweeping invocation
”:
Al-Aulaqi Versus Obama, Case 1:10-cv-01469-JDB, “Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction and in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss by Jameel Jaffer, Ben Wizner, Jonathan M. Manes, Pardiss Kebriaei, Maria C. LaHood, William Quigley, and Arthur B. Spitzer (DDC October 9, 2010).

371
its own legal framework
:
Charlie Savage, “Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen,”
New York Times
, October 8, 2011.

371
“
loved the idea
”:
Daniel Klaidman,
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), pp. 214-215.

372
“
set his own legal standard
”:
Ibid., p. 216.

372
“
US targeting practices
”:
Speech, Harold Hongju Koh, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, March 25, 2010,
www.state.gov/s/1/releases/remarks/139119.htm
.

373
“
To the Muslims in America
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “Message from Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki to the American People,” YouTube video, 14:59, from a videotape released by Al-Malahem Media in March 2010, posted by “0109vip,” March 3, 2012.

374
“
To go from that individual
”:
Ahmed al-Haj and Brian Murphy (AP), “Al-Awlaki: From Voice for Jihad to al Qaeda Figure,”
Washington Times
, September 30, 2011.

375
“
He was heartbroken
”:
Abu Yazeed, “Samir Khan: The Face of Joy,”
Inspire
9 (winter 2012), released May 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Abu Yazeed are from this essay.

375
“
for what seemed like years
”:
Samir Khan, “I Am Proud to Be a Traitor to America,”
Inspire
2 (fall 2010), released October 2010. All quotations and information attributed to Samir Khan are from this essay.

376
“
They came to know
”:
Author interview, Sarah Khan, April 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Sarah Khan are from the author's interview.

377
studied Internet technology
:
Author interview, Sarah Khan, April 2012.

377
“
connecting and facilitating disparate groups
”:
Author interview, Aaron Zelin, August 2012.

378
MI-6
:
Richard Norton-Taylor, “British Intelligence Used Cupcake Recipes to Ruin al-Qaida Website,”
Guardian
, June 2, 2011.

378
“‘
And inspire the believers to fight
'”:
“Letter from the Editor,”
Inspire
1 (summer 2010), released July 2010.

379
commissioned a dozen cartoons
:
Stephen Castle, “Mohamed Cartoons Provoke Bomb Threats Against Danish Newspaper,”
Independent
(UK), February 1, 2006.

379
“
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
”:
“‘Draw Muhammad' Cartoonist Goes into Hiding at FBI's Insistence After Assassination Threat,”
www.FoxNews.com
, September 16, 2010.

379
“
I would like to express my thanks
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “May Our Souls Be Sacrificed for You!”
Inspire
1 (summer 2010), released July 2010.

380
changed her name and moved
:
Mark D. Fefer, “On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist
Molly Norris Disappears from View,”
Seattle Weekly
, September 15, 2010.

380
“
The more the US talked about
Inspire”
:
Author interview, Gregory Johnsen, August 2012.

381
ordered his deputy
:
Osama bin Laden, letter to Shaykh Mahmud (Attiya Abd al-Rahman), SOCOM-2012-0000003-HT 27, August 27, 2010, released by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, May 3, 2012.

382
“
He was focusing
”:
Author interview, Kamal Sharaf, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Kamal Sharaf come from the author's interview.