NOTES

NOTES TO CHAPTER 8

1 Keenan, Patrick J., Commander, USN, Officer in Charge, Navy Ship Repair Unit Bahrain, Engineering Duty Newsletter, January 2001, 1, 18–20.

 

NOTES TO CHAPTER 11

1 Perna, Frank, Chief Warrant Officer, USN, Officer in Charge, Detachment Alpha, Mobile Driving and Salvage Unit Two, Faceplate: The Official Newsletter for the Divers and Salvors of the United States Navy 5, no. 3 (March 2001), 7–8.

2 Keenan, Patrick J., Commander, USN, Officer in Charge, Navy Ship Repair Unit Bahrain, Engineering Duty Officer Newsletter (January 2001), 1, 18–20.

3 Ibid.

 

NOTES TO CHAPTER 13

1 Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, letter dated October 14, 2000, Ser 00/1082, Subj: Command Investigation into the Actions of USS Cole (DDG 67) in Preparing for and Undertaking a Brief Stop for Fuel at Bandar at Tawahi (Aden Harbor) Aden, Yemen, On or About 12 October 2000.

2 Soufan, Ali H., with Daniel Freedman, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011), 154–156.

3 Newman, Robert, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Defense Attaché to U.S. Embassy, Sana’a, Yemen, JAGMAN Investigation Statement, e-mail dated November 22, 2000.

4 Command Investigation into the Actions of USS Cole (DDG 67) in Preparing for and Undertaking a Brief Stop for Fuel at Bandar at Tawahi (Aden Harbor) Aden, Yemen, On or About 12 October 2000, passim.

5 Command Investigation report, 60–66, 96–106.

6 Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, First Endorsement on Captain James W. Holland, Jr., U.S. Navy, letter of November 27, 2000, Subj: Investigation to Inquire into the Actions of USS Cole (DDG 67) in Preparing for and Undertaking a Brief Stop for Fuel at Bandar at Tawahi (Aden Harbor) Aden, Yemen On or About 12 October 2000, 126–128.

7 Ibid., 128.

8 Ibid.

9 The 9/11 Commission Report, Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Official Government Version, photo reprint (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor’s Publishing Division, 2004), 191.

10 Soufan, The Black Banners, 157.

11 Ibid., 128–129.

12 Ricks, Thomas E., and Vernon Loeb, “Cole Security Lapses Found; Precautions Not Taken When Ship Was Hit by Bomb,” Washington Post, December 9, 2000, Section A, 14.

13 Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Second Endorsement on Captain James W. Holland, Jr., U.S. Navy, letter of November 27, 2000, Subj: Investigation to Inquire into the Actions of USS Cole (DDG 67) in Preparing for and Undertaking a Brief Stop for Fuel at Bandar at Tawahi (Aden Harbor) Aden, Yemen On or About 12 October 2000, 136.

14 Ibid., 141.

15 Ibid., 139–140.

16 Ibid., 145.

17 Ibid., 146–150.

18 Ibid., 152.

19 Ibid., 153.

20 Ibid., 154.

21 Ibid., 153–154.

22 Ibid., 155.

23 Ibid., 157.

24 Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen, et al., Department of Defense Transcript, USS Cole Briefing, January 19, 2001.

25 USS Cole Commission Report, Department of Defense, January 9, 2001, 1.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid., 2, 4–6.

28 Ibid., 7–8.

29 Ibid., 8.

30 Ibid., 9–10.

31 Danzig, Richard, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, Subj: Investigation to Inquire into the Actions of USS Cole (DDG 67) in Preparing for and Undertaking a Brief Stop for Fuel (BSF) at Bandar at Tawahi (Aden Harbor) Aden, Yemen On or About 12 October 2000, January 18, 2001, 1–3.

32 Department of Defense Transcript, USS Cole Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (et al.), January 19, 2001.

33 Danzig Memorandum, 3.

34 Ibid., 4–5.

35 Ibid., 5.

36 Ibid.

37 Ibid., 5–6.

38 Cohen, William S., Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments, et al, Subj: Assessment of Accountability Arising from the Attack on USS Cole (DDG 67) on 12 October 2000, 1.

39 Ibid., pg. 2.

40 Ibid.

41 Ibid.

42 Steven Strasser, ed., The 9/11 Investigations (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004), 111–112.

43 The 9/11 Commission Report, 191.

 

NOTES TO CHAPTER 14

1 Foley, J. B., Commander, Naval Surfaces Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet memo to Chief of Naval Operations, December 19, 2000, Ser. N02L/1313, 1–3.

2 www.arlingtoncemetery.net/unidentified-091202.htm, accessed November 17, 2010.

 

NOTES TO EPILOGUE

1 Clarke, Richard A., Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 223.

2 Strasser, Steven, ed., The 9/11 Investigations (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004), 111–112.

3 Cohen, William S., et al., Department of Defense Transcript, USS Cole Briefing, Secretary of Defense, January 19, 2001.

4 Strasser, ed., The 9/11 Investigations, 111–112.

5 Clarke, Against All Enemies, 224.

6 Soufan, Ali H., with Daniel Freedman, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), 218–220.

7 The 9/11 Commission Report, Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Official Government Version, photo reprint (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor’s Publishing Division, 2004), 153–159; and Soufan, Black Banners, 239, 294.

8 National Archives, Executive Orders 13492-13493, President Barack Obama, January 22, 2009, http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2009-obama.html

9 Secretary of the Navy Gordon England, Precept Convening FY-03, Promotion Selection Boards to Consider Officers in the Line on the Active-Duty List of the Navy for Promotion to the Permanent Grade of Captain, January 7, 2002, A3.

10 Armed Service Committee Hearing, To receive testimony concerning the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS and the subsequent court-martial of Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, III, USN, September 14, 1999, statement of Senator John Warner (R-VA).

11 The White House Blog, Osama bin Laden Dead, May 2, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead