Dirty Wars (117 page)

260
“
If you ever get out
”:
James Dao, “Suspect's Lawyer Outlines Defense in Killing of Soldier,”
New York Times
, June 4, 2009.

260
he was investigated
:
Pierre Thomas, Richard Esposito, and Jack Date, “Recruiter Shooting Suspect Had Ties to Extremist Locations,” ABCNews.go.com, June 3, 2009.

260
told police officials
:
Steve Barnes and James Dao, “Gunman Kills Soldier Outside Recruiting Station,”
New York Times
, June 1, 2009.

260
“
a jihadi attack
”:
“Arkansas Recruiting Center Killing Suspect: ‘This Was a Jihadi Attack,'” CNN.com, January 22, 2010.

260
“
might be trying to link himself
”:
James Dao, “Man Claims Terror Ties in Little Rock Shooting,”
New York Times
, January 21, 2010.

261
“
recklessness cloaked in righteousness
”:
Remarks by Richard B. Cheney, American Enterprise Institute, May 21, 2009,
www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/india-pakistan-afghanistan/remarks-by-richard-b-cheney/
.

261
“
doubled down on Bush policy
”:
Author
interview, Joshua Foust, January 2011.

261
“
These guys are scalpels
”:
Author interview, former aide to Special Operations commander, February 2011.

262
fly drones and US helicopters
:
US diplomatic cable 09STATE72112, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to US Embassy in Sana'a, “Eliciting Yemeni Cooperation for Arms Smuggling Interdiction Efforts,” July 9, 2009, released by WikiLeaks,
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/07/09STATE72112.html
. The author relies on this cable for details of Ambassador Seche's talking points.

262
laying the groundwork
:
US diplomatic cable 08SANAA1947, from Ambassador Stephen Seche, US Embassy Sana'a, “Saleh Tells Petraeus: ‘No Restrictions' on CT Cooperation,” August 9, 2009, released by WikiLeaks,
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/08/09SA-NAA1430.html
. The author relies on this cable for details of the meeting.

262
deployed his nephew
:
Gregory D. Johnsen, “The Expansion Strategy of Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula,”
CTC Sentinel
, January 3, 2010,
www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-expansion-strategy-of-al-qaida-in-the-arabian-peninsula-2
.

262
posting a video online
:
Ibid.

263
“
I worry about safe havens
”:
Transcript, “Defense Language Institute All Hands Call,” Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA, August 10, 2009,
www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?id=i230
.

263
“
got free training
”:
Author interview, former aide to Special Operations commander, December 2010.

264
“
Today the world turns upside down
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “Suicide or Martyrdom?” Imam Anwar's Blog, anwar-alawlaki.com, January 22, 2009.

264
“
the greatest terrorists of all
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “An Offer to Retract and Unite,” Imam Anwar's Blog, anwar-alawlaki.com, February 14, 2009.

264
“
speaking to you from Yemen
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “State of the Ummah—Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki,” YouTube video (audio), 48:51, from a lecture delivered by Anwar al Awlaki via teleconference on March 1, 2009, posted by “Moahroah,” July 3, 2012,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpxw2tupdQ
.

265
“
when the president was calling me
”:
Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, January 2012.

265
positioning their vehicles
:
Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, August 2012.

265
“
what the president wants
”:
Ibid.

266
“
I will not allow the Americans
”:
Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, January 2012.

266
“
It was a heated discussion
”:
Author interview, Nasser al Awlaki, September 2012.

266
“
You and the Americans
”:
Author interview, Sheikh Saleh bin Fareed, January 2012.

266
“
What am I accused of?
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “Anwar al-Awlaki May 2010 Interview Video,” transcript of interview with Al-Malahem Media, released May 23, 2010, translation from Public Intelligence, May 26, 2010,
http://publicintelligence.net/anwar-al-awlaki-may-2010-interview-video/
.

266
“
Unguided Rockets into Israel?
”:
Nidal Hasan, e-mail to Anwar al Awlaki, January 16, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
.

266
“
This can assure privacy
”:
Nidal Hasan, e-mail to Anwar al Awlaki, February 16, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
. This was from the first of four e-mails Hasan sent on February 16.

267
“
$5,000.00 scholarship
”:
Ibid., from the third of four e-mails Hasan sent on February 16.

267
“
I pray this message reaches you
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, e-mail to Nidal Hasan, February 16, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
.

267
“
looking for a wife
”:
Nidal Hasan, e-mail to Anwar al Awlaki, February 16, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
. This was from the fourth of four e-mails Hasan sent on February 16.

267
“
Thanks for the offer
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, e-mail to Nidal Hasan, February 22, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
.

267
“
I know your busy
”:
Nidal Hasan, e-mail to Anwar al Awlaki, March 7, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
.

267
“
the issue of ‘collateral damage
'”:
Nidal Hasan, e-mail to Anwar al Awlaki, May 31, 2009, released by Intelwire, July 19, 2012,
http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html
.

268
“
The first face to face fight
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “The Army of Yemen Confronts the Mujahideen,” Imam Anwar's Blog,
anwar-alawlaki.com
, August 1, 2009.

268
“
Surprise of the Season?
”:
Anwar al
Awlaki, “Could Yemen Be the Next Surprise of the Season?” Imam Anwar's Blog,
anwar-alawlai.com
, October 7, 2009.

269
“
If we go back to 2001 or 2002
”:
Author interview, Abdul Rezzaq al Jamal, January 2012.

269
“
I lived in the US
”:
Anwar al Awlaki, “Anwar Al Awlaki's Posthumous Call to Jihad (Part 1),” YouTube video, 12:48, from an address delivered by Anwar al Awlaki in March 2010 and produced by Al-Malahem Media, posted by “ClarionProductions,” December 21, 2011,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcFKofJ5PA
.

270
fewer than one hundred
:
Joshua Partlow, “In Afghanistan, Taliban Leaving al-Qaeda Behind,”
Washington Post
, November 11, 2009.

270
“
a coup attempt
”:
Agence France-Presse, “UN Somalia Envoy Accuses Islamist of Coup Attempt,” May 13, 2009.

270
highly produced videos
:
Agence France-Presse, “Somali Terror Group Raps in English for Recruits,” March 31, 2009.

270
Syrian immigrant
:
Abu Mansuur al-Amriiki, “The Story of an American Jihaadi, Part One,” accessed May 17, 2012,
http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/omar-hammami-abc5ab-maneib9a3c5abr-al-amrc4abkc4ab-22the-story-of-an-amer-ican-jihc481dc4ab-part-122.pdf
. For details of Omar Hammami's life, the author relied on his autobiography, published online under the nom de guerre Abu Mansuur al-Amriiki, unless otherwise noted.

271
“
I made it my goal
”:
Andrea Elliott, “The Jihadist Next Door,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 27, 2010.

271
“
a multinational counterterrorism team
”:
Ibid.

271
federal, terror-related charges
:
Associated Press, “American Is Charged in U.S. for Activities in Somalia,”
Washington Post
, February 14, 2007.

271
a potential asset
:
Elliott, “The Jihadist Next Door.”

271
“
Oh, Muslims of America
”:
Ibid.

271
450 foreign fighters
:
Agence France-Presse, “Lawless Somalia Draws Influx of Foreign Fighters,” March 27, 2009.

271
“
The only reason
”:
Omar Hammami, “A Converted American Who Joined Al Qaeda,” YouTube video, 3:12, from a CNN broadcast featuring an excerpt of the Shabab-produced recruitment video “Ambush at Bardal,” posted by “shahzad-khan007,” July 22, 2009,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvEdB9riT10
.

271
“
If you can encourage
”:
Omar Hammami, “Two Americans in Shabaab,” YouTube video, 3:38, from the Shabab-produced video “Ambush at Bardal” released March 31, 2009, posted by “RabieAbuBakr,” April 15, 2009,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU9Vgix6Eo
.

271
“
We're calling all the brothers
”:
“Somali Terrorist Group Releases Recruitment Video Featuring ‘the American,'” Anti-Defamation League, September 8, 2009,
www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/al_shabaab_video_the_american.htm
.

271
key al Shabab leaders
:
In 2012, Hammami and al Shabab had an apparent falling out, with Hammami charging in two online videos that “friction” with other leaders had put his life in danger. Al Shabab denied the allegations, calling Hammami “narcissistic,” and accused him of “sowing disunity” among the mujahedeen. See Omar Hammami, “urgentmessage,” YouTube video, 1:09, posted by “somalimuhajirwarrior,” March 16, 2012,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAr2srINqks
; The Middle East Media Research Institute, “In Second Urgent Message, American Al-Shabab Commander Hammami Confirms Major Schism Between Somali and Foreign Al-Shabab Fighters, Urges Al-Qaeda Leadership to Intervene,” translation of online video message from Omar Hammami, October 19, 2012,
www.memri.org/report/en/print6766.htm
; HSM Press Office, “Abu Mansur Al-Amriki: A Candid Clarification,” statement from Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen posted on their Twitter feed, December 17, 2012,
www.twitlonger.com/show/kcjrkc
.

271
Shirwa Ahmed
:
Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan, “Feds Probing Possible Minn. Terror Group,” ABCNews.go.com, November 25, 2008.

272
“
fight terrorism with lethal force
”:
Daniel Volman, “Obama, AFRICOM, and U.S. Military Policy Toward Africa,” Working Paper No. 14, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, 2009. Volman cites Senator Obama's written responses to a questionnaire given to the 2008 presidential candidates by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation. The questionnaire—but not the responses—can be found at,
www.afjn.org/focus-campaigns/other/other-continental-issues/82-general/399-presidential-town-hall-meeting-africa-questionnaire.html
.

272
“
just a failed state
”:
Hillary Clinton during confirmation hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, January 13, 2009, transcript by CQ Transcriptions, released via NYTimes.com,
www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
.

272
arms shipments
:
Marina Litvinsky
and Jim Lobe, “Somalia: U.S. Confirms Arms Shipments to Bolster Besieged Gov't,” Inter Press Service News Agency, June 25, 2009.

272
better paid
:
Roland Marchal, “The Rise of a Jihadi Movement in a Country at War; Harakat Al-Shabaab al Mujaheddin in Somalia,” National Centre for Scientific Research, March 2011, p. 8. Al Shabab reportedly paid its recruits' salaries far more regularly than other Somali actors, including the government, although the stated salaries themselves could be comparably modest.

272
double-suicide attacks
:
Edmund Sanders, “Eleven African Soldiers Killed in Somalia,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 23, 2009.

272
“
unprecedented level
”:
“Somali Militants Kill Eleven Burundian Soldiers in Mogadishu,”
Pana Press
, February 23, 2009.

273
“
heaviest of its kind
”:
Mohamed Ibrahim, “Fighting in Somalia Kills at Least Fifteen,”
New York Times
, February 24, 2009.

273
“
walking slowly
”:
Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, “Obama Team Mulls Aims of Somali Extremists,”
Washington Post
, April 11, 2009.