The Way of the Knife (55 page)

McNamara, Robert, 19

McNeill, Dan, 192

McPherson, John L., 240

McRaven, William, 229–30, 231, 244, 246

Maes, Jeff, 275–76

Maghaweer
(game), 186

“Making a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” (Khan), 309

Mali, 325–26

Mamraiz, Shaheena, 283

Marine barracks bombing, in Beirut, 54

Marines, 17–18

al-Masri, Abu Khabab, 160–61, 173

Massoud, Ahmad Shah, 91–92, 104

Meadows, Richard, 69

Mehsud, Baitullah, 156–58, 227–28

Meyer, Edward, 70, 74

MI5, 166

MI6, 6–7, 40

Mighty Wurlitzer, 175, 176

al-Mihdhar, Khalid, 303

Mike (undercover officer), 163–64, 218

Mikolashek, Paul, 21, 22

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), 65

Military Liaison Elements, 82

Mogadishu, Battle of.
See
Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down episode)

Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 40, 118, 167

Moscow Rules, 4, 262

MQ-1 Predator, 90–91

Mubarak, Hosni, 26, 254

mujahedeen, 27, 31, 32, 51, 86, 103, 168

Mukhabarat, 26

Mullen, Mike, 192, 290, 293–95

bin Laden raid details relayed to Pakistan by, 288–89

Senate testimony on Pakistan’s role in Afghan insurgency of, 294–95

Wardak bombing and, 293–94

Muller, Scott, 120

Munir, Asad, 74, 168, 265, 286

on Pakistani peace deal with tribal militants, 107–8

working with CIA, 38–41

Munter, Cameron, 290

Davis incident and, 262–64, 273, 274–75, 276

Panetta and, 292

requests veto power and notification of drone strikes, 291–93

Murray, Patrick, 127

Musharraf, Pervez, 28, 33–34, 103–4, 111, 133, 227, 260, 266–67

Bush’s meeting with, 34

drone negotiations with CIA, 109

North Waziristan peace agreement and, 170–72

post–9/11 U.S. demands and, 29–31

purge of Islamists from military, 36

tribal militant attacks in Waziristan and, 105–6, 108

al-Zawahiri orders fatwa on, 105

Muslim Brotherhood, 255

Myers, Richard, 68

Nabhan, Saleh Ali Saleh, 246–47

al-Nashiri, Abd al-Rahim, 118–19, 126

National Intelligence Estimate report on radicalization in Muslim World, 138

National Security Act of 1947, 44

National Security Council, 69, 93, 226–27, 292, 305

Native Echo operation, 185–87

Navy Seals.
See
SEALs/SEAL Team Six

Negroponte, John D., 148–49

Nek Muhammad Wazir, 103–10, 156, 227, 266

attacks on Pakistani military, 103–7

drone strike kills, 109–10, 121

Neutrality Act, 240

Newland, Ross, 7, 43–44, 47–49, 59, 88, 99, 100, 239

on drone program, 318

early career of, 47–49

Nicaraguan covert activities and, 51–53

as station chief handling Eastern Europe and Soviet Union, 57–58

New York Times, The,
49, 139, 201

Nicaragua, 15, 50–53

9/11 terrorist attacks.
See
September 11 terrorist attacks

9/11 Commission, 13, 88, 98, 126

Bush advised to ignore recommendations on CIA powers, 81–82

recommends stripping CIA of paramilitary functions, 81, 313–14

Nixon, Richard, 79, 177

Noriega, Manuel, 72

North, Oliver, 51, 52–53, 54, 211

Northern Alliance, 27, 31–33, 91–92, 104

North Korea, 315

North Waziristan peace agreement, 170–72

Obama, Barack, 5, 57, 197, 214, 215, 216, 253–54, 301, 313

al-Awlaki killing and, 308, 312

bin Laden operation and, 286, 287, 289

closing of Guantánamo Bay prison and, 218, 219

coercive interrogation techniques banned by, 218–19

continuation of Bush drone attacks in Pakistan by, 267

Davis incident and, 3–4, 264

military operations in Yemen approved by, 231

review of covert-action programs, 225–26

Somali operations approved by, 246

targeted-killing program under, 217–20, 221, 226–28, 300–1, 312–15

Obama administration, 207, 211, 253

arms shipment to Somalia by, 242–43

al-Awlaki killing approved by, 305

CIA role in Libya and, 316

Davis incident and, 263–65, 272, 274

Inspire
magazine and, 309

legal opinions justifying targeted-killing operations, 300–1

refuses to release documents on drone program, 312–13

Obrman, Jan, 181, 185, 188, 197, 204

O’Connell, Thomas, 64–65, 78–81

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 6–7, 45, 300

Ohryzko, Volodymyr, 238

Oil Tycoon
(game), 186

Omar, Haji, 167

Omar, Mullah Mohammed, 31, 32, 33, 157, 210, 269

Operation Cannonball, 164–65

Operation Desert Storm, 154

Operation Eagle Claw, 68–69, 70

Pack, Richard, 204

Pakistan, 33

al Qaeda in, 37–38, 265–66, 269–72

army intelligence, 170

Davis incident and, 1–4, 257–65, 272–76, 290

intelligence service (
See
Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI))

Kashmir relief aid as cover for sending CIA agents into, 164–65

Lashkar-e-Taiba in, 259–61, 277

Taliban and, 27–32, 112, 168, 170, 269–70

U.S.–Pakistan relationship, 26–32

Pakistani Taliban, 107–8, 157–58, 227

Palestinian intifada, 98

Panetta, Leon, 221–26, 271, 301, 313

Arab Spring and, 253

Blair and, 224–26, 235

in charge of bin Laden mission, 133, 287

Davis incident and, 264–65, 290

interrogation memos and, 221–23

Muntner and, 292

targeted-killings and, 228

Paraguay, 82

Pasha, Ahmad Shuja, 263–65, 268, 273, 274–75, 290, 291, 293

Patek, Umar, 134

Patterson, Anne, 263

Pavitt, James, 12, 13, 90

Black and, 15

Predator drone program and, 91, 92, 97

Pelton, Robert Young, 193, 194, 197, 198, 203

Pentagon.
See also
Department of Defense

CIA efforts to undermine spying efforts of, 73–74

division of labor agreement with CIA, 132–34

Field Operations Group (FOG), 69–70

Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) (
See
Intelligence Support Activity (ISA))

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) (
See
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC))

Operation Eagle Claw and, 68–69

poor communications with CIA, 17–21, 18

psychological operations of, 176–90

Rumsfeld attempts to modernize Defense Department, 19–21

U.S.C. Title 10 as governing authority, 76

Perot, H. Ross, 71

Petraeus, David, 299–300, 308

as CIA director, 301–2

Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order of, 206–8

Yemen counterterrorism operations and, 229, 232–33

Phillipines, 133–34

Phoenix program, 78

piracy

private efforts at combating, 244

Somali, 237–38, 247–48

Powell, Colin, 34, 57

POW rescue mission, in Laos, 71–72

Prado, Enrique, 10, 16, 122–25, 240, 327

Predator drones, 7, 61, 85–101, 218

assassination authority of CIA and, 87, 97–100

al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman killed by, 310–12

al-Awlaki, Anwar killed by, 306–10

in Balkan War, 61, 90–91

Creech Air Force Base as home of, 320–21

Datta Khel strike, 291

debate over development of, 88–94

Djibouti base for, 306–7, 308

effect on CIA of drone program, 317–19

effect on relations with Pakistan, 290–93

escalation of drone strikes in Pakistan in 2008, 265–69

funding for, 91, 95

Habib killed by, 173

al-Harethi killed by, 85–87, 100

institutionalization of drone program, 313

latency problem of, 307

al-Masri killed by, 173

Mehsud killed by, 227–28

Nek Muhammad strike, 109–10, 121

Obama administration refuses to release documents related to, 312–13

in Pakistani tribal areas, 108–10

parallel drone programs of CIA and JSOC, 311–12

in Phillipines, 133–34