52 Profile: Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, BBC, September 15, 2009. According to one of his sisters, however, Nabhan grew up in a well-off neighborhood north of Mombasa. See “Concerns Grow Over Rising Militancy Among Kenyan Muslims,” Associated Press , January 10, 2003.
54 “Kenya’s Most Dangerous Al-Qaeda Terrorist,” Daily Nation , June 21, 2009.
55 Raymond Bonner and Steve Levine, “‘We Are Freedom Fighters,’ Says a Leader of Militants,” New York Times, August 27, 1998; NEFA Foundation, Biographical Summary of the Martyred Commander, Allah-willing, Abu Yusuf al-Nabhani, October 12, 2009.
58 Stephen Mburu, “Kenya: How the Nairobi Terror Attack Was Planned,” Daily Nation , August 6, 2008; “Kenya’s Most Dangerous Al-Qaeda Terrorist,” Daily Nation , June 21, 2009.
66 Lacey, “Same Suspects Tied to Mombasa and ’98 Embassy Attacks”; Matthew Rosenberg, “Concerns Grow Over Rising Militancy Among Kenyan Muslims,” Associated Press, January 10, 2003.
67 Andrew England, “FBI’s Most Wanted Leader of al-Qaida Cell Indicted for U.S. Embassy Bombings Escaped,” Associated Press, June 13, 2004.
68 Lubaina Kher, “Kenya Attacks Suspect May Be in Somalia,” Associated Press, December 17, 2002.
69 Rosenberg, “Concerns Grow over Rising Militancy among Kenyan Muslims.”
78 Paul Haven, “The Death of al Zarqawi; Tracking the Fates of Members of the Terrorist ‘Class of 2004’ Gives Glimpse of Short Life Expectancy of Those Who Take Up Arms; New Jihadist Generation Dead, Hiding,” Associated Press, June 10, 2006.
79 Alisha Ryu, “Kenyan Officials Deny Reports of Arrest of Terror Suspect,” Voice of America , March 14, 2007.
81 Gettleman and Schmitt, “U.S. Kills Top Qaeda Militant.”
82 Dina Temple-Raston, “Dead Al-Qaida Suspect Tied to Somali Youths in U.S.,” NPR, September 16, 2009.
83 Spencer Hsu, “Concern Grows Over Recruitment of Somali Americans by Islamists,” Washington Post , October 4, 2009.
84 Scott Baldauf, “Obama’s First Somalia Strike Hits Al-Qaeda Suspect,” Christian Science Monitor , September 15, 2009.
85 “Slain al-Qaida Suspect’s Mother Asks to See Body,” Associated Press, September 16, 2009.
86 Gettleman and Schmitt, “U.S. Kills Top Qaeda Militant”; Maamoun Youssef, “Al-Qaida Group in Somalia Confirms Leader’s Death,” Associated Press, September 16, 2009.
87 Tristan McConnell, “Terrorist Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan Killed by US Commandos in Somalia,” Times, September 16, 2009.
88 Mohamed Olad Hassan, “US Special Forces Targeted al-Qaida in Somalia,” Associated Press, September 15, 2009.
89 Spencer Ackerman, “David Petraeus: The Danger Room Interview,” Wired, August 18, 2010.
90 “14 Charged with Aiding Terror Group Al-Shabab,” Associated Press, August 5, 2010.
91 Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Robert F. Worth, “Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents,” New York Times, August 14, 2010.
2 Lolita Baldor, “Pentagon: US Has Questioned bin Laden’s Widows,” Associated Press, May 13, 2011.
3 Kimberley Dozier, “Sources: Raiders Knew Mission a One-Shot Deal,” Navy Times , May 17, 2011.
4 Jane Mayer, “The Search for Osama: Did the Government Let bin Laden’s Trail Go Cold?” New Yorker , August 4, 2003; Pervez Musharraf, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir (New York: Free Press, 2008), 220–221.
13 John McCain, “Bin Laden’s Death and the Debate over Torture,” Washington Post, May 11, 2011.
14 Greg Sargent, “Exclusive: Private Letter from CIA Chief Undercuts Claim Torture Was Key to Killing bin Laden,” Washington Post Plum Line, May 16, 2011, http://tinyurl.com/44rlvlq .
15 Dahlia Lithwick, “Still Stupid, Still Wrong, Still Immoral,” Slate , May 4, 2011.
16 Mark Mazzetti and David Rohde, “Amid US Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan,” New York Times, June 30, 2008; Julian Borger and Declan Walsh, “The Never-ending Manhunt,” Guardian, July 10, 2009; “TV Show Discusses US Charges Against Pakistan Intelligence Agency,” Today with Kamran Khan, Karachi Geo News Television in Urdu/BBC Monitoring South Asia, August 2, 2008.
17 Mazzetti and Rohde, “Qaeda Grows in Pakistan”; Borger and Walsh, “Never-ending Manhunt.”
24 Khalid Hasan, “US-trained Pakistani Commandos to Be Deployed in Tribal Areas,” Daily Times (Pakistan)/ BBC World Monitoring, August 4, 2008.
25 R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux, and Joby Warrick, “2 US Air Strikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama’s Pakistan Policy,” Washington Post, January 24, 2009.
26 Dexter Filkins, “Right at the Edge,” New York Times, September 7, 2008.
27 Smith, Rondeaux, and Warrick, “2 US Air Strikes.”
28 Greg Miller, “CIA Spied on bin Laden from Safe House,” Washington Post, May 6, 2011.
29 Declan Walsh, “Osama bin Laden Monitored for Months Before Raid,” Guardian , May 6, 2011.
30 Marc Ambinder, “Then Came Geronimo,” National Journal , May 12, 2011.
1 Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, GOP Likely to Recapture Control of House, October 31, 2010.
2 Cameron Middleton, interview, November 15, 2010.
3 Dana Priest, “Foreign Network at Front of CIA’s Terror Fight,” Washington Post , November 18, 2005.
4 Joseph Berger, “Nations Halt Air Cargo From Yemen,” New York Times , November 1, 2010.
5 George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm (New York: Harper Collins, 2007).
6 Ali Waked, “Hamas Crushes al-Qaeda Uprising,” YNet News , August 14, 2009.
7 “Meshal: Johnston’s Release Shows Hamas Brought Order to Gaza,” Haaretz , July 4, 2007.
8 Ansar al-Sunnah used to be known as Ansar al-Islam. It has since resumed using its original name.
9 Ansar al-Sunnah was until 2003 known as Ansar al-Islam. Ansar al-Sunnah changed its name back to Ansar al-Islam several years later in an effort to return to its Kurdish roots. See Department of State, Country Reports on Terrorism: Ansar al-Islam, April 30, 2008.
10 Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Taipei: SMC Publishing, 1994), 177.
11 MEMRI, “Major Jihadi Cleric and Author of Al-Qaeda’s Shari’a Guide to Jihad: 9/11 Was a Sin,” \ December 14, 2007, www.memrijttm.org/content/en/report.htm?report=2636¶m=AJT ; Abdul Hameed Bakier, “Al-Qaeda’s al-Zawahiri Repudiates Dr. Fadl’s Rationalization of Jihad,” Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Focus, April 30, 2008.
14 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Inspector General, “Critical Intelligence Community Management Challenges,” November 12, 2008.