Dirty Wars (125 page)

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“
Abdulelah was threatened many times
”:
Author interview, Abdulrahman Barman, January 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Abdulrahman Barman come from the author's interview.

383
“
a very smart journalist
”:
Interview with Mohamed Abdel Dayem, “Jeremy Scahill: Why Is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?”
Democracy Now!
, March 15, 2012. All quotations and information attributed to Mohamed Abdel Dayem come from his appearance on the show.

383
using his paychecks
:
Author interview, US media source, March 2012.

383
“
I was persuaded
”:
Dexter Filkins, “After the Uprising: Can Protesters Find a Path Between Dictatorship and Anarchy?”
New Yorker
, April 11, 2011.

384
put in a cell together
:
Author interview, Kamal Sharaf, January 2012.

384
thirty-four days
:
Iona Craig, “Yemen: Press Freedom a Distant Hope,”
Index on Censorship
, October 27, 2010.

384
asked for more time
:
Nasser Arrabyee, “Yemeni Journalist Sentenced to Five Years for Terror Links,” Nasser Arrabyee (blog), January 18, 2011, narrabyee-e.blogspot.ca.

385
“
paced slowly around the white cell
”:
Craig, “Yemen: Press Freedom a Distant Hope.”

385
“
When they hid murderers
”:
“Yemeni Journalist Accused of Being ‘Media Man' for Al-Qaeda,” YouTube video, 0:30, from second court appearance, October 26, 2010, posted by “ioniocraig,” October 26, 2010,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J6RgbEx6Zc
.

386
“
Progress against violent extremists
”:
Transcript, “Remarks with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Abdullah al-Qirbi,” London, UK, January 27, 2010.

386
“
greatly expanded
”:
Aaron W. Jost, “A Comprehensive Approach to Yemen,” The White House Blog, September 24, 2010,
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/24
. All statements and information attributed to Jost come from the post.

386
“
adverse impact on the poor
”:
“Joint Statement from the Ministerial Meeting of the Friends of Yemen,” New York, September 24, 2010,
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=PressS&id=22916622
.

387
“
Saleh doesn't really want us
”:
Author interview, Colonel W. Patrick Lang, February 2011.

387
“
Security forces have taught the terrorists
”:
Fawaz al Haidari, “Yemen Army ‘Regains Control' of Southern Town,” Agence France-Presse, August 25, 2010.

387
“
dearth of solid intelligence
”:
Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Robert F. Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents,”
New York Times
, August 14, 2010.

387
“
All Land Rovers
”:
Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, and Karen DeYoung, “U.S. Drones on Hunt in Yemen,”
Washington Post
, November 7, 2010.

388
“
For the first time
”:
Greg Miller, “CIA Sees Increased Threat in Yemen,”
Washington Post
, August 25, 2010.

388
“
mount a more intense
”:
Adam Entous and Siobhan Gorman, “U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 25, 2010.

388
“
on the upswing
”:
Miller, “CIA Sees Increased Threat in Yemen.”

388
“
The Agency has taken advantage
”:
Gareth Porter, “Behind Drone Issue, a Struggle to Control Covert Ops,” Inter Press Service, November 10, 2010.

388
“
elite U.S. hunter-killer teams
”:
Julian E. Barnes and Adam Entous, “Yemen Covert Role Pushed; Foiled Bomb Plot Heightens Talk of Putting Elite U.S. Squads in CIA Hands,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 1, 2010.

388
another offensive against AQAP
:
Laura Kasinof, “Yemen Goes on Offensive Against al Qaeda,”
Christian Science Monitor
, September 22, 2010.

389
“
discussed cooperation
”:
“Statement by National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer on the Visit of Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan to Yemen,” The White House, September 20, 2010,
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/20/statement-national-security-council-spokesman-mike-hammer-visit-assistan
.

389
late-night phone call
:
Mark Mazzetti and Robert F. Worth, “U.S. Sees Complexity of Bombs as Link to al Qaeda,”
New York Times
, October 30, 2010.

389
“
potential terrorist threat
”:
David Jackson, “Obama Monitoring Possible Terrorist Plot, Spokesman Says,”
USA Today
, October 29, 2010.

389
tracking numbers
:
Eric Schmitt and Scott Shane, “Saudis Warned U.S. of Attack Before Parcel Bomb Plot,”
New York Times
, November 5, 2010.

389
before arriving at 2:13 a.m.
:
Vikram Dodd, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Paul Harris, “Cargo Plane Bomb Found in Britain Was Primed to Blow Up over US,”
Guardian
, November 20, 2010.

389
kept for further tests
:
Matt Apuzzo, Eileen Sullivan, and David Rising (AP), “Race to Find Mail Bombs Zigzagged as Cargo Dodged Screens,”
Denver Post
, November 7, 2010.

389
Defense Science and Technology Laboratory
:
Duncan Gardham, “Al-Qaeda Plane Bomb Seventeen Minutes from Going Off,”
Telegraph
, November 4, 2010.

390
“
activation could have occurred
”:
Dodd, Norton-Taylor, and Harris, “Cargo Plane Bomb Found in Britain Was Primed to Blow Up over US.”

390
“
one of the most sophisticated
”:
Ibid.

390
discovered in Dubai
:
Scott Shane and Robert F. Worth, “Earlier Flight May Have Been Dry Run for Plotters,”
New York Times
, November 1, 2010.

390
long-dead historical figures
:
Ron Grossman and Christi Parsons, “Bomb Plot Becomes Historic Jigsaw Puzzle,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 4, 2010.

390
emergency landing
:
Michael Scotto, “JFK-Bound Jet Escorted as Part of Increased Security Following ‘Credible' Terror Threat,”
NY1.com
, October 29, 2010.

390
planes being swept
:
“Terror Probe Leads to Searches in NY, NJ,” NewYork.
CBSlocal.com
, October 29, 2010.

390
“
credible terrorist threat
”:
Jesse Lee, “President Obama: ‘A Credible Terrorist Threat Against Our Country, and the Actions That We're Taking,” The White House Blog, October 29, 2010.

390
“
We have succeeded
”:
“Operation Hemorrhage,”
Inspire
(November 2010), Special Issue, released November 2010.

391
dismissed suggestions
:
“Dubai Officials Dismiss Claim of Blast on Plane,” CNN.com, November 6, 2010.

391
“
maximum losses to the American economy
”:
Head of Foreign Operations, “The Objectives of Operation Hemorrhage,”
Inspire
(November 2010), Special Issue, released November 2010.

391
indicted Awlaki in absentia
:
“Yemen Orders Arrest of al-Awlaki,”
AlJazeera.com
, November 6, 2010.

391
“
How is it that judicial approval is required
”:
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, 1:10-cv-01469-JDB, “Memorandum Opinion by Judge John D. Bates” (DDC December 7, 2010).

392
If the court's ruling is correct
”:
Charlie Savage, “Suit over Targeted Killings Is Thrown Out,”
New York Times
, December 7, 2010.

393
“
agreement for unification
”:
Text of agreement, “Somali Website Publishes Islamists' Agreement to Unite with al-Qaidah,”
Biyokulule Online
, February 2, 2010,
www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=2511
.

393
“
United States has launched air strikes
”:
Committee on Foreign Relations, “Al Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia: A Ticking Time Bomb,” S. Prt. 111-40, p. 16 (2010).

394
reaching an agreement
:
“Somalia: Islamist MP Resigns After ‘Cheating' Ethiopia Jail,”
Garowe Online
, April 4, 2009.

394
As he tells it
:
Author interview, Sheikh Ahmed “Madobe” Mohammed Islam, June 2011. All statements and information attributed to Madobe come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

394
Madobe announced
:
Radio Shabelle, “Hizbul Islam Declare War on Al-Shabab in Southern Somalia,”
Mareeg
, February 28, 2010,
www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=15312&tirsan=3
. Fighting between Madobe's forces and al Shabab had been going on for weeks at this point.

394
“
most important source of income
”:
Matt Bryden, Jörg Roofthooft, Ghassan Schbley, Babatunde Taiwo, “Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1916 (2010),” UN Security Council, July 18, 2011, p. 28.

394
“
training and support
”:
Paul Cruickshank, “Kenya's High Stakes Shabaab Offensive,” Security Clearance (blog), CNN.com, October 24, 2011,
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/24/kenya's-high-stakesshabaab-offensive/
.

395
Ethiopian Village restaurant
:
Josh Kron, “Bombers Kill More Than Fifty in Attacks in Uganda Capital,”
New York Times
, July 11, 2010.

395
halftime
:
Xan Rice, “Uganda Bomb Blasts Kill at Least Seventy-Four,”
Guardian
, July 12, 2010.

395
ninetieth minute
:
“Somali Militants Claim Responsibility for Uganda Bombings,”
CNN.com
, July 12, 2010.

395
Kyadondo Rugby Club
:
Vision reporter, “Over Forty Die in Kampala Bomb Blasts,”
New Vision
(Kampala), July 12, 2010.

395
severed head
:
Haggae Matsiko, “Uganda:
An Unexploded Suicide Vest Found in Makindye, Kampala,”
Independent
(Kampala), July 13, 2010.

395
“
very happy
”:
“‘Somali Link' as Seventy-four World Cup Fans Die in Uganda Blasts,”
BBC.co.uk
, July 12, 2010.

395
“
We will carry out attacks
”:
Xan Rice, “Somali Militants Say They Carried Out Deadly Uganda World Cup Blasts,”
Guardian
, July 12, 2010.

395
“
We thank the mujahideens
”:
“Al-Shabab Claims Uganda Bombings; Twin Attacks Targeting World Cup Fans in Kampala Kill at Least Seventy-four People,” AlJazeera.com, July 13, 2010.

396
terrorism capital
:
“Somalia Tops Terror Attack List,” UPI, November 18, 2010.

396
“
national emergency
”:
Executive Order 13536 (April 12, 2010).

396
“
These indictments and arrests
”:
Attorney General Eric Holder, remarks as prepared for delivery at press conference, Washington, DC, August 5, 2010.

396
“
most significant military campaign
”:
Bryden et al., “Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1916 (2010),” p. 17.

396
“
massive war
”:
Associated Press, “Militants Slaughter Lawmakers at Somali Hotel,”
MSNBC.com
, August 24, 2010.

397
laid siege to the Muna Hotel
:
Bryden et al., “Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1916 (2010),” p. 17.

397
tied the remains
:
Mohamed Olad Hassan and Malkhadir M. Muhumed (AP), “Somalia Suicide Bomber, Gunmen Attack Muna Hotel, Thirty-two Killed,”
Huffington Post
, August 24, 2010.

397
“
This is a particularly outrageous act
”:
Transcript, Press briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton and Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan,” Vineyard Haven, MA, August 24, 2010.

397
dual car bombing
:
Bryden et al., “Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1916 (2010),” p. 18.

397
week of intense violence
:
Abdi Sheikh, “Somalia's al Shabaab Rebels Push Towards Palace,” Reuters, August 25, 2010.