The Longest War (88 page)

U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Report on whether public statements regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials were substantiated by intelligence information together with additional and minority views
. Report 110–345. 110th Congress, 2nd session. June 2008.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Current and projected national security threats.
110th Congress, 1st session. January 11, 2007.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee.
Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the threat in Afghanistan and beyond.
111th Congress, 1st session. October 2009.

U.S. Senate. Armed Services Committee.
The current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States.
111th Congress, 1st session. March 10, 2009.

Jason Amerine, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2010.

John Ashcroft, October 31, 2001, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

John Brennan, White House press conference, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2010.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/
briefing-homeland-security-secretary
-napolitano-assistant-president-counterterrorism
.

George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001.

George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 29, 2002.

George W. Bush, March 13, 2002, Washington, D.C.

George W. Bush, Address at West Point, NY, June 1, 2002.

George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2002.

George W. Bush, Cincinnati, OH, October 7, 2002.

George W. Bush, State of the Union, Washington, D.C., January 28, 2003.

George W. Bush, Aboard the USS
Abraham Lincoln
, May 1, 2003.

George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2003.

George W. Bush, Remarks with L. Paul Bremer, Washington, D.C., October 27, 2003.

George W. Bush, Greeley, Colorado, October 25, 2004.

George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005.

George W. Bush, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, OH, March 20, 2006.

George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007.

Dick Cheney, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.

Dick Cheney, Center for Security Policy, October 22, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Hank Crumpton, speech at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 14, 2008.
http://csis.org/files/media/csis/press/080114_smart_crumpton.pdf
.

Jonathan Evans, address to the Society of Editors, November 5, 2007, Manchester, England.
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/
intelligence-counter-terrorism-and-trust.html
.

Michael Hayden, Remarks at the Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., November 13, 2008.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Address, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, UK, October 1, 2009,
www.iiss.org/EasySiteWeb/
GatewayLink.aspx?alId=31537
.

Barack Obama, “Remarks by the president on a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan,” March 27, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” West Point, NY, December 1, 2009.

Jennifer Pagonis, United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, Geneva, April 8, 2008.

Colin Powell, presentation before the United Nations, February 5, 2003, New York City.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/
news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un-17300pf.htm
.

Condoleezza Rice, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, December 5, 2005.

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Arlington, VA, December 27, 2001.

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Camp X-Ray, Cuba, January 27, 2002.

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Operational Update Briefing, Arlington, VA, June 18, 2003.

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing, Arlington, VA, June 17, 2004.

Donald Rumsfeld, “New Realities in the Media Age,” Council on Foreign Relations, February 16, 2006.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9900/
.

Abu Mansoor al-Amriki. NEFA Foundation, transcript of al Shabab video from Abu Mansoor al-Amiriki, “A response to Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo,” July 9, 2009;
http://www.nefafoundation.org/
miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefa_abuman soor0709.pdf
.

Osama bin Laden, “Declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places,” published in
Al Quds al Arabi
, August 1996.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
.

Osama bin Laden statement, “Dangers and Signs of the Indian Nuclear Explosions,” May 14, 1998, author collection.

Osama bin Laden, December 13, 2001. Transcript available from CNN, translated by Department of Defense.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/tape.transcript/
.

Osama bin Laden, “The Will of One Seeking the Support of Allah Almighty, Usama Bin Laden.”
Al-Majallah
(a Saudi magazine), December 14, 2001.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf
, p. 222.

Osama bin Laden, videotape released to Al Jazeera after Battle of Tora Bora. December 27, 2001.

Osama bin Laden, “To the Americans.” 2002. Posted to Islamist websites and quoted in
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
. Ed. Bruce Lawrence. London: Verso, 2005, p. 165.

Osama bin Laden, “Message to our Brothers in Iraq,” Al Jazeera, February 11, 2003 (translated by ABC News).

Osama bin Laden audiotape, “A Message to the Americans,” aired on Al Jazeera, October 18, 2003.

Osama bin Laden, “Message to the American People,” October 2004. Quoted in Gilles Kepel,
Al-Qaeda in its Own Words
(Boston: Belknap Press, 2008).

Osama bin Laden. Al Jazeera, “Full transcript of bin Laden’s speech,” October 29, 2004.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html
.

Osama bin Laden, “Statement,” December 16, 2004, posted on the Internet (translated by BBC monitoring).

Osama bin Laden.
The Guardian
Website has a useful chronology of statements by bin Laden and Zawahiri at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/page/0,,839823,00.html
where bin Laden’s February 20, 2006 statement can be found.

Osama bin Laden, translated by CNN, June 29, 2006,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRAN
SCRIPTS/0606/29/acd.02.html

Osama bin Laden, “The Way to Frustrate the Conspiracies,” December 29, 2007, translated by NEFA Foundation.
http://www1.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/
nefabinladen1207.pdf
.

Osama bin Laden, “From Usama to Obama,” January 24, 2010, released to Internet, translated by NEFA Foundation.

Omar Abdel-Rahman, Will. Distributed by his sons at a press conference organized by bin Laden on May 26, 1998. The card was translated into English for the first time in Peter Bergen,
The Osama bin Laden I Know
, pp. 204–205.

Abu Musab al-Suri,
The Call for Global Islamic Resistance
, published on jihadist websites, 2004.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, “Letter to Osama bin Laden,” Coalition Provisional Authority, February 12, 2004.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, June 23, 2004. SITE Institute, Washington, D.C.
www.siteintelgroup.org/terrorismlibrary/
communique/communique_1103219979.pdf
.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Pool, Jeffrey (translator). “Zarqawi’s pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda.” Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor, December 16, 2004.
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/
article.php?articleid=2369020
.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, “Letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi,” July 9, 2005.
www.rjchq.org/media/pdf/zawahiriletter.pdf
.

Ayman al-Zawahiri. “The Open Meeting with Shaykh Ayman al Zawahiri,”
Al Sahab
, 2008.

Central Intelligence Agency, Inspector General, Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities, May 7, 2004.

Central Intelligence Agency, “Khalid Shaykh Mohamed: Preeminent Source On Al-Qa’ida,” July 13, 2004.

Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General, “Report on CIA Accountability With Respect to the 9/11 Attacks,” released August 2007.
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/oig-911.pdf

City of New York. Police Department. Mitchell Silber and Arvin Bhatt, “Radicalization in the West,”
http://www.nypdshield.org//files/22/64/19/f226419/public/SiteFiles/documents/
NYPD_Re port-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf
.

Colin Powell, Memorandum to Counsel to the President, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, subject: Draft Decision Memorandum for the President on the Applicability of the Geneva Convention to the Conflict in Afghanistan, January 26, 2002.

Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,” dated April 2006.

Department of Defense, Detainee Biographies.

Department of Defense, Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, March 10, 2007.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
transcript_ISN10024.pdf
.

Department of Homeland Security, “Strategic Sector Assessment: U.S. Aviation.” May 18, 2006.

FBI Affidavit on Ali Mohamed, submitted by Special Agent Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

FBI Report, Abu Jandal, FD-302.

FBI Report, “Interview of John Philip Walker Lindh,” December 9–10, 2001.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Hijackers Timeline.” February 1, 2007.

FBIS Report, Compilation of Usama bin Laden Statements, 1994–January 2004.

Government Accountability Office, “Afghanistan Security: Further Congressional action may be needed to ensure completion of a detailed plan to develop and sustain capable Afghan National Security Forces,” June 2008.

John C. Yoo, Memorandum to Alberto Gonzales, United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, August 1, 2002.

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Final Report (Washington, D.C., 2004) (“9/11 Commission Report.”)

National Intelligence Council, National Intelligence Assessment, “The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland,” July 2007.
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf
.

New York City Police Department, “Al-Qaeda Plots in the West: Assessment of Operations 1988–2008.”

State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Human Rights Report.

State Department, Patterns of Global Terrorism.

U.S. Army, “The U.S. Army in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom: October 2001– March 2002,” CMH Pub 70-83-1.

U.S. Army, “A Different Kind of War,” United States Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, October 2001–September 2005, Combat Studies Institute Press, June 2009.

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, “Interrogation of al-Qaida operative,” August 1, 2002.

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, May 10, 2005.

White House, Text of Strategic Framework Agreement and Security Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq, November 27, 2008,
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/
releases/2008/11/20081127-2.html
.

White House, “White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group’s Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan,” March 27, 2009.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents
/afghanistan_pakistan_white_paper_final.pdf
.

Summary of the White House Review of the December 25, 2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack, p. 2.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/
white-house-review-summary-regarding-
12252009-attempted-terrorist-attack
.

Donald P. Wright and Colonel Timothy R. Reese,
On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign: The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003–January 2005
(Washington, D.C.: CSI Press, 2008).

“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,”
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
, 1996.
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
.

Amy Belasco, “The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global war on terror operations since 9/11,” Congressional Research Service, May 15, 2009.
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf
.

“Battle for Pakistan,” multiple papers and authors, New America Foundation, 2010.

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point,
Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records
, December 19, 2007.

Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (New York: Vintage Books, 2008).
http://www.preventwmd.gov/report/
.

Congressional Research Service, “Direct Overt U.S. Aid and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2009,”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf
.

Council of Europe, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, “Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe Member States,” June 7, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp
/hi/pdfs/marty_08_06_07.pdf
.

Sara Daly, John Parachini, and William Rosenau. “Aum Shinrikyo, Al-Qaeda, and the Kinshasa Reactor: Implications of Three Case Studies for Combating Nuclear Terrorism.” RAND Project AIR FORCE 2005. RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/
2005/RAND_DB458.pdf