The Longest War (96 page)

Qahtani, Mohammed al-,
107
–8

Qaradawi, Yusuf al-,
297
–98

Quadrennial Defense Review,
10

Quantico Marine Base,
240
–41

Quetta, Pakistan,
185
,
221
,
253
,
261

Qurairy, Jamal Abu Zeinab al-,
141

Qutb, Mohamed,
23

Qutb, Sayyid,
12
,
22
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23
,
32
,
349

Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner,
150

Rahman, Omar Abdel,
29
–30

Ramadan,
29
,
66
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70
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75
,
76
,
78

Ramadi, Iraq,
266
–67,
269
,
289

Ramstein Air Base,
103

Rationalization of Jihad
(Sharif),
299

Rauf, Abdur,
223

Rauf, Rashid,
208

Rawalpindi, Pakistan,
253
,
257

“Recognizing and Developing Countermeasures to Al-Qaida Resistance to Interrogation Techniques,”
111

Red Mosque,
257
–58

Reid, Richard,
121
–22,
124
,
147
,
234
,
249
,
305

Reilly, Nicky,
337

Republican Guard,
156

Ressam, Ahmed,
48

Rice, Condoleezza,
46
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52
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54
,
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158
,
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–60,
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,
341

on biological terrorism,
42
–43

in Cold War,
43
–44

on flood of post-9/11 intelligence,
95

in testimony to 9/11 Commission,
42
–43,
49

torture denounced by,
100

treatment of prisoners and,
104

ricin,
223
–24

Ridge, Tom,
129
,
146

Riedel, Bruce,
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,
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–12,
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–15,
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Risha, Abdul Sattar Abu,
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,
289

Rishawi, Sajida al-,
169

Roberts Commission,
39

Robertson, Nic,
81

Robespierre, Maximilien,
1

Rodriguez, Jose,
113

Rohde, David,
332

Rolince, Michael,
106

Rolling Stone
,
323

Romania,
24
,
113

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
39

Rose, Flemming,
236

Rubin, Barnett,
195

Rumsfeld, Donald,
49
,
144
,
179
,
261
,
278
,
294

Afghan War plan and,
180
,
181
,
182

detention of prisoners authorized by,
103
–4,
106

dictum of,
55
–56

on Iraq-al-Qaeda connection,
132
,
135
–36

on Iraq insurgency,
158

Iraq seen as target by,
52
,
53
,
80
–81

on Iraq surge,
273
,
274

Rushdi, Osama,
17
–18

Russert, Tim,
148

Russia,
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26
,
49
,
301

Sabah, Zaina al-,
86

Sadat, Anwar,
13
,
23

Sadr, Moqtada al-,
291

Sadr City, Iraq,
292
,
293

Sageman, Marc,
201
–2,
204
,
205

Sahwa
(Awakening),
12

Salafist Group for Call and Combat,
211

Salman Pak training camp,
140
–41

Samara, Hussein Ali al-,
169

Samarra, Iraq,
269

Sanchez, Ricardo S.,
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157
,
165
,
166

Saudi Arabia,
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,
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,
141
,
171
,
211
,
298
,
300
–301,
302

bin Laden’s differences with royal family of,
19

mujahideen supported by,
16

terrorism in,
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–10,
300
–301,
302
,
304
–5,
336

U.S. military presence in,
19
,
20
,
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U.S. support for,
27

Scheuer, Michael,
40
,
139
,
349

Schroen, Gary,
54
,
56
–57,
59

Sears tower,
242

Senate, U.S.:

Appropriations Committee of,
141

Armed Services Committee of,
146
,
150
,
287

Foreign Relations Committee of,
185
,
287
,
328

Intelligence Committee of,
95
,
134
,
151
–52

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of,
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as alleged Zionist conspiracy,
10

as al-Qaeda success,
90
,
91
–92

al-Qahtani’s role in,
107
–8

Atta’s riddle on,
3

bin Laden on,
11
,
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–28,
59
–60,
61

economic effect of,
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–92,
93
,
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first anniversary of,
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–27,
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,
253

Hussein and,
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53
,
55
–56,
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,
135
–36

Iraq and,
52
,
53
,
55
–56,
59

lack of resignations following,
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Muslim world’s view of,
28

planning for,
3
–6,
24
,
31
–32,
33
,
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–94,
115
,
252
–53

rumors in al-Qaeda camps of,
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–5

suicide wills of hijackers of,
5

warnings of,
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–39,
47
–50

see also
9/11 Commission

Serbia,
27

SERE program,
111

Services Office,
14

Sewall, Sarah,
277

Shah, Ejaz,
251

Shahab, Mohammed Mansour,
140

Shah of Iran,
12
–13,
264

Shahzad, Faisal,
211

sharia law,
22

Sharif, Sayyid Imam al-,
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Sharon, Ariel,
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Sheehan, Michael,
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–41,
45
,
46
,
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205
,
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,
226

Shehhi, Marwan al-,
6

Sheikh, Abdul Aziz Abdullah al-,
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Sheikh, Omar,
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–51

Shelton, Tina,
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Shias,
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–64,
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–67,
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,
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Shihri, Said Ali al-,
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Shnewer, Mohamad,
241

Shomali Plains, Afghanistan,
60

Shultz, Richard,
40

Shumate, Scott,
112

Shumpert, Ruben,
238

“shura,”
193

Siddiqui, Aafia,
223

SIGINT,
345

Sinjar, Iraq,
270

Sirrs, Julie,
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–49

Sistani, Ali al-,
272

Sky, Emma,
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–85,
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,
288
,
294

smallpox,
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–97

Small Wars Journal
,
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Smirnov, Leonid,
218

Smith, Graeme,
179

Somalia,
6
–7,
20
–21,
59
,
217
,
237

Sons of Iraq,
271
,
272

Soufan, Ali,
45
,
47
,
110
,
112
,
114

South Waziristan, Pakistan,
254
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260
,
263
,
331
,
332

Soviet Union,
314

Afghanistan invaded by,
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8
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10
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13
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14
–16,
17
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20
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23
,
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78
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,
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–61,
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,
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in Cold War,
18

collapse of,
24
,
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nuclear material from,
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,
221
–22

Spataro, Armando,
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,
103
,
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Special Boat Service,
72

Special Forces,
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–41,
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,
55
,
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,
261
,
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,
339

in Afghan War,
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–64,
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82
,
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Mazar-e-Sharif captured by,
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Special Services Group,
257

State Department, U.S.,
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,
36
,
98
,
100
,
105
,
136
,
154
,
277
,
309

Status of Forces Agreement,
293

Stevenson, Adlai,
142

Story of the Malakand Field Force, The
(Churchill),
254

“Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al Qida,”
42

Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against America
(Mylroie),
135

Submission
(film),
203

Sudan,
20
,
21
,
24
,
36
,
53
,
68
,
87
,
100
,
133
–34,
151
–52,
200
,
217
,
338

Sude, Barbara,
37
,
39
,
48

Sufaat, Yazid,
116
,
223

suicide bombers,
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,
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168
–69,
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–85,
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–89,
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–86,
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331
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,
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Cheney as target of,
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Suicide Bombers in Iraq
(Hafez),
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Sunni Awakening,
195

Sunnis,
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–64,
165
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167
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–49,
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Sun Tzu,
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Supreme Command
(Cohen),
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Supreme Court, Pakistani,
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–59

Supreme Court, U.S.,
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Suqami, Satam al-,
38

Suri, Abu Musab al-,
19
,
24
,
90
–91,
202
–3

“Survey of Intelligence Information of Any Iraqi Involvement in the September 11 Attacks,”
52

Suskind, Ron,
225
–26

Swat, Afghanistan,
330

Swedan, Ahmed Salim,
346

Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916),
27

Syria,
100
,
167
–68,
171

Tabarak, Abdallah,
70
,
78
,
79

Tablighi Jamaat,
126

Taft, William, IV,
105

Tajikistan,
55

Tajiks,
54
,
65

takfir
,
17
–18,
22
,
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–300

Tal Afar, Iraq,
268

Taliban,
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,
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,
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,
174
,
300
,
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–21

airstrikes on,
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al-Qaeda’s relationship with,
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–90

arrest of members of,
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attacks in West planned by,
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collapse of,
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–65,
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