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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
MAPS
A NOTE TO THE READER
PROLOGUE
1 “There Was Concern...That We Not Create an American Hit List”
WASHINGTON, DC, 2001–2002
2 Anwar Awlaki: An American Story
THE UNITED STATES AND YEMEN, 1971–2002
3 Find, Fix, Finish: The Rise of JSOC
WASHINGTON, DC, 1979–2001
4 The Boss: Ali Abdullah Saleh
YEMEN, 1970–2001; WASHINGTON, DC, 2001
5 The Enigma of Anwar Awlaki
THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE UNITED STATES AND YEMEN, 2002–2003
6 “We’re in a New Kind of War”
DJIBOUTI, WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2002
7 Special Plans
WASHINGTON, DC, 2002
8 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape
WASHINGTON, DC, 2002–2003
9 The Troublemaker: Stanley McChrystal
THE UNITED STATES, 1974–2003; IRAQ, 2003
10 “Their Intention and Our Intention Is the Same”
SOMALIA, 1993–2004
11 “A Defeated Enemy Is Not a Vanquished One”
YEMEN, 2003–2006
12 “Never Trust a Nonbeliever”
THE UNITED KINGDOM, 2003
13 “You Don’t Have to Prove to Anyone That You Did Right”
IRAQ, 2003–2005
14 “No Blood, No Foul”
IRAQ, 2003–2004
15 The Death Star
IRAQ, 2004
16 “The Best Technology, the Best Weapons, the Best People—and Plenty of Money to Burn”
AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND PAKISTAN, 2003–2006
17 “A Lot of It Was of Questionable Legality”
SOURCE: “HUNTER”
18 The Imprisonment of Anwar Awlaki
YEMEN, 2004–2007
19 “America Knows War. They Are War Masters.”
SOMALIA, 2004–2006
20 Prison Break
YEMEN, 2006
21 Hot Pursuit
PAKISTAN, 2006–2008
22 “Every Step Taken by the US Benefited al Shabab”
SOMALIA, 2007–2009
23 “If Your Son Does Not Come to Us, He Will Be Killed by the Americans”
YEMEN, 2007–2009
24 “Obama Is Set to Continue the Course Set by Bush”
UNITED STATES, 2002–2008
25 Obama’s Signature Strikes
PAKISTAN AND WASHINGTON, DC, 2009
26 Special Ops Want to “Own This Shit Like They Did in Central America in the ’80s”
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2009
27 Suicide or Martyrdom?
YEMEN, 2009
28 Obama Embraces JSOC
SOMALIA, EARLY 2009
29 “Let JSOC Off the Leash”
SAUDI ARABIA, WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, LATE 2009
30 Samir Khan: An Unlikely Foot Soldier
THE UNITED STATES AND YEMEN, 2001–2009
31 Blowback in Somalia
SOMALIA AND WASHINGTON, DC, 2009
32 “If They Kill Innocent Children and Call Them al Qaeda, Then We Are All al Qaeda”
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2009
33 “The Americans Really Wanted to Kill Anwar”
YEMEN, LATE 2009–EARLY 2010
34 “Mr. Barack Obama...I Hope That You Reconsider Your Order to Kill...My Son”
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, EARLY 2010
35 One Night in Gardez
WASHINGTON, DC, 2008–2010; AFGHANISTAN, 2009–2010
36 The Year of the Drone
YEMEN AND THE UNITED STATES, 2010
37 Driving Anwar Awlaki to Hell
YEMEN, 2010
38 The CIA’s Dating Service
DENMARK AND YEMEN, 2010
39 “The Auction of the Assassin”
WASHINGTON, DC, 2010
40 “Martyrdom Is Why We Came Here, My Brother”
YEMEN, 2009–2010
41 The Persecution of Abdulelah Haider Shaye
YEMEN, SUMMER 2010
42 The President Can Write His Own Rules
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, LATE 2010
43 Al Qaeda’s “Foothold in Somalia Has Probably Been Facilitated”
SOMALIA, 2010
44 “Anwar Awlaki...Definitely Has a Missile in His Future”
YEMEN, 2011
45 The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act I
PAKISTAN, 2011
46 The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act II
PAKISTAN, 2011
47 The Tsunami of Change
AUSTRIA AND YEMEN, 2011
48 The Fortress in Abbottabad
WASHINGTON, DC, 2010–2011; PAKISTAN, 2011
49 “We Got Him. We Got Him.”
PAKISTAN, 2011
50 “Now They’re After My Son”
SOMALIA, WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2011
51 “It Was Cold-Blooded”
PAKISTAN, 2011
52 “The US Sees al Qaeda as Terrorism, and We Consider the Drones Terrorism”
YEMEN, LATE 2011
53 The Pink House
WASHINGTON, DC, AND SOMALIA, 2011
54 “Total Savagery Throughout the Country”
SOMALIA, 2011
55 Abdulrahman Vanishes
YEMEN, 2011
56 Hellfire
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2011
57 Paying for the Sins of the Father
WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEMEN, 2011
EPILOGUE: PERPETUAL WAR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
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