Dirty Wars (126 page)

397
deadly roadside bomb
:
Mohamed Ibrahim, “Somalia: Roadside Bomb Kills Eight Civilians,”
New York Times
, August 31, 2010.

397
displaced by the fighting
:
The Editors, “Quick Take: Map of al Shabaab's Mogadishu Offensive,”
Critical Threats
, September 23, 2010,
www.criticalthreats.org/somalia/quick-take-map-al-shabaabs-mogadishu-offensive
.

397
“
overdependence of [al Shabab] on child soldiers
”:
Bryden et al., “Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1916 (2010),” p. 18.

398
convicted of terrorism-related charges
:
Iona Craig, “Obama Intervention Puts Yemen Reporter in Jail,”
Index on Censorship
, February 7, 2011.

398
“
failed to meet international standards
”:
Human Rights Watch, World Report 2011, “Yemen,”
www.hrw.org/world-re-port-2012/world-report-2012-yemen
.

398
“
It has no legal basis
”:
Author interview, Abdulrahman Barman, January 2012. All statements and information attributed to Abdulrahman Barman come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

398
“
Having witnessed his trial
”:
Author interview, Iona Craig, March 2012. All statements and information attributed to Iona Craig come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

398
“
There are strong indications
”:
“Yemeni Journalist Jailed After Alleging US Involvement in Missile Attack,” Amnesty International, January 19, 2011,
www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/yemeni-journalist-jailed-after-alleging-us-involvement-missile-attack-2011-01-19
.

398
“
It is difficult to overestimate
”:
Author interview, Gregory Johnsen, March 2012. All statements and information attributed to Gregory Johnsen come from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

399
call from President Obama
:
“Readout of the President's Call with President Saleh of Yemen,” The White House, February 3, 2011.

399
brief hunger strike
:
Iona Craig, “Yemen: Shaye Commences Hunger Strike,”
Index on Censorship
, February 14, 2012.

399
“
We remain concerned
”:
Author interview, Beth Gosselin, March 2012.

400
“
Shaye is in jail
”:
Iona Craig, “US Has ‘Direct Interest' in Shaye's Case,” Iona Craig's Blog, February 21, 2012,
http://ionacraig.tumblr.com/post/17969745744/us-ambassa-dor-response-to-shaye-imprisonment
.

400
“
the threat is constant
”:
Eric Holder, interview with Pierre Thomas,
Good Morning America
, ABC, December 21, 2010.

401
“
Even if what [Awlaki] is saying
”:
Author interview, Pardiss Kebriaei, March 2012.

401
“
definitely has a missile in his future
”:
Author interview, Malcolm Nance, May 2011.

401
in missions to kill or capture
”:
Duncan Gardham and Richard Spencer, “Cargo
Bomb Plot: SAS Hunting al-Qaeda in Yemen,”
Telegraph
, November 2, 2010.

401
“
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
”:
Understanding the Homeland Threat Landscape—Considerations for the 112th Congress, Hearing Before the House Homeland Security Committee
, IIIth Cong. (February 9, 2011) (testimony of Michael Leiter).

402
“
He immediately sent drones
”:
Author interview, Joshua Foust, January 2011.

403
Big Stone Gap
:
Mark Mazzetti, Ashley Parker, Jane Perlez, and Eric Schmitt, “American Held in Pakistan Worked with C.I.A.,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2011.

403
Lahore plate
:
Raja Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators,'”
Daily Times
, February 15, 2011,
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\02\15\story_15-2-2011_pg7_17
.

403
withdrawal from an ATM
:
“US Official Raymond Davis on Lahore Murder Charges,”
BBC.co.uk
, January 28, 2011.

403
pulled in front of him
:
Declan Walsh, “A CIA Spy, a Hail of Bullets, Three Killed and a US-Pakistan Diplomatic Row,”
Guardian
, February 20, 2011.

403
Davis was arrested
:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'”

404
“
our diplomat
”:
Transcript of White House press briefing by Jake Tapper, “Spending Cuts and an American Imprisoned in Pakistan: Todays Qs for O's WH—2/15/11,” Political Punch (blog),
ABCNews.go.com
, February 15, 2011.

404
Vienna Conventions
:
Charlie Savage, “Pakistan Case Tests Laws on Diplomatic Immunity,”
New York Times
, February 22, 2011.

404
“
technical adviser
”:
Matthew Cole, Kirit Radia, and Lee Ferran, “American Official Involved in Pakistan Shooting Identified,”
ABCNews.go.com
, January 28, 2011.

404
not authorized
:
Asif Chaudhry, “US Official Guns Down Two Motorcyclists in Lahore,”
Dawn.com
, January 28, 2011.

404
Old Anarkali Bazaar
:
Walsh, “A CIA Spy, a Hail of Bullets.”

404
“
high security zone
”:
Declan Walsh and Ewen MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crisis over Lahore Shooting Was CIA Spy,”
Guardian
, February 20, 2011.

404
transferred out of the jail
:
Ewen MacAskill and Declan Walsh, “US Gives Fresh Details of CIA Agent Who Killed Two Men in Pakistan Shootout,”
Guardian
, February 21, 2011.

404
Punjab Rangers
:
“Rangers Deployed at Kot Lakhpat,”
Dawn
, February 14, 2011.

404
served another purpose
:
Ansar Abbasi, “Multiple Security Layers Erected for Raymond Davis,”
News International
(PAK), February 11, 2011.

404
grainy film
:
“Raymond Davis Investigation by Punjab Police,” YouTube video, 3:06, from a video shot of Davis's initial interrogation, broadcast on the Geo News network, posted by “shoaib748,” February 11, 2011,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkqBF-Dk4Zu0
.

405
least interesting item
:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'” Unless otherwise noted, this inventory is based on the Riaz article, which claims to have reprinted excerpts of the Punjab police report following Davis's arrest.

405
multiple IDs
:
Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung, “U.S., Pakistan Officials at Diplomatic Odds in Fatal Shooting,”
Washington Post
, February 10, 2011.

405
masks
:
Mazzetti et al., “American Held in Pakistan Worked with C.I.A.”

405
calls to twenty-seven militants
:
Qaiser Butt, “‘CIA Agent Davis Had Ties with Local Militants,'”
Express Tribune
, February 22, 2011.

405
religious schools
:
Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “#Update: The Raymond Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), February 19, 2011,
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/02/update-the-raymond-davis-affair-fb-ali.html
.

405
military institutions
:
Walsh, “A CIA Spy, a Hail of Bullets.”

405
Department of Defense contractor
:
Jane Perlez, “Mystery over Detained American Angers Pakistan,”
New York Times
, February 8, 2011.

405
number at CIA headquarters
:
Walsh and MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crisis.”

405
“
The accused has concealed
”:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'”

405
well known to Pakistan's spy agency
:
Asad Kharal, “Retracing the Path: Trailing Raymond Davis,”
Express Tribune
, February 22, 2011.

406
“
Boy, we're in a world of hurt!
”:
Author interview, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, May 2011.

406
arrived in Pakistan
:
Kharal, “Retracing the Path.”

406
Special Operations weapons sergeant
:
Miller and DeYoung, “U.S., Pakistani Officials at Diplomatic Odds in Fatal Shooting.”

406
left the military
:
Walsh and MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crisis.”

406
private security firm Blackwater
:
Matthew Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA
Contractor, U.S. Officials Say,” ABCNews.
go.com
, February 21, 2011. Details of Davis's reported work with the Global Response Staff are from Cole's reporting.

406
common cover
:
Mazzetti et al., “American Held in Pakistan Worked with C.I.A.”

406
run its drone bombing campaign
:
James Risen and Mark Mazzetti, “C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones,”
New York Times
, August 20, 2009.

406
moved between
:
Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor.”

407
“
Davis was ‘vanilla' Special Forces
”:
Author interview, former JSOC staffer, March 2011. All statements and information attributed to the former JSOC staffer are from the author's interview.

407
signed a contract worth $200,000
: Munir Ahmed (AP), “Disagreements in Pakistan over Held American; ex-Foreign Minister Disputes Immunity Claim,”
Star Tribune
, February 16, 2011.

407
“
loss and risk management professionals
”:
Cole, Radia, and Ferran, “American Official Involved in Pakistan Shooting Identified.”

407
address in Las Vegas
:
Summary of registration, Hyperion Protective Services LLC, business registry database from the website of the Colorado Secretary of State. Screenshot of Colorado registration summary available via Jim White, “Does Raymond Davis Recruit Intelligence Agents in US?” My FDL (blog), My Firedoglake, February 17, 2011,
http://my.firedoglake.com/jimwhite/2011/02/17/does-raymond-davis-recruit-intelligence-agents-in-us/
.

407
post office box
:
“The UPS Store--#3627, Las Vegas, NV,”
www.theupss-torelocal.com/3627/
.

407
“
The Blackwater individuals
”:
Author interview, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Addicott, November 2009. All statements and information attributed to Addicott come from the author's interview.

407
“
make much more money
”:
Author interview, US military intelligence source, November 2009. All statements and information attributed to the military intelligence source come from the author's interview.

408
first “black” contract
:
Robert Young Pelton,
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), pp. 36–41; author interviews, former Blackwater and intelligence officials, February-September 2006.

408
“
That's not entirely accurate
”:
Author interview, former Blackwater executive, November 2009. Details of Blackwater's relationship with Kestral Logistics come from the author's interview.

408
powerful Pakistani firm
:
“Kestral Group of Companies,” Kestral Logistics,
www.kestral-logistics.com/
.

409
“
We cannot help you
”:
Author interview, David McKeeby, November 2009.

409
“
no operations of any kind
”:
Mark Corallo, e-mail to author, November 20, 2009.

409
federal lobbying records
:
Lobbying records filed on behalf of Kestral-USA, from the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed December 2012,
http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=submit-SearchRequest
.

409
Kestral had hired
:
Lobbying Report, required under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, Quarter 4 of 2009, Roger F. Noriega, with the DC-based consulting firm Vision Americas, on behalf of Kestral-USA.

409
Vision Americas
:
“Ambassador Roger F. Noriega,” Vision Americas website, accessed December 2012,
www.visionamericas.com/noriega.php
.

409
Christina Rocca
:
“Ambassador Christina Rocca,” Vision Americas website, accessed December 2012,
www.visionamericas.com/rocca.php
.

410
paid Vision Americas $15,000
:
Lobbying report, filed by Roger F. Noriega, Vision Americas, Quarter 3, 2009.