Authors: Jeremy Scahill
and US citizens, assassination strike against,
314
â316,
325
â326
and US citizens, assassination strike against, and Awlaki lawsuit against,
369
â374,
392
and US embassy bombings,
236
,
277
West Point speech of,
301
and Yemen, downplay of US role in,
321
â322
and Yemen, expansion of SOFs in,
261
â263
and Yemen, focus on,
269
,
285
â287
and Zinjibar siege,
464
Obama, Michelle,
513
Obama administration and Afghanistan war,
258
and al Qaeda, in Yemen,
268
and AQAP,
321
and clandestine action,
282
â283
and detainee policy, legality of,
519
and detainee policy, violation of,
453
and Saleh regime, weakening of,
465
and SOFs, expansion of,
283
â284
and Yemen, assistance to,
386
O'Connell, Thomas,
141
Office of Combating Terrorism,
117
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict,
170
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (aka Night Stalkers),
51
,
443
O'Neill, John,
63
O'Neill, Paul,
13
Operating Base Alpha,
139
Operation Black Hawk,
120
â121
Operation Cannonball,
176
Operation Desert Shield,
102
Operation Desert Storm,
102
Operation Eagle Claw,
49
,
50
,
103
Operation Enduring Freedom,
23
,
104
Operation Gothic Serpent,
125
Operation Honey Badger,
49
Operation Infinite Reach,
126
Operation Just Cause,
53
Operation Neptune Spear,
440
,
441
Operation Red Dawn,
141
Operation Troy,
499
Oversight,
16
â17,
23
â24.
See also
Congressional
and Abbottabad compound
(see under
Bin Laden, Osama) al Qaeda in,
114
,
217
â218,
255
â256
Blackwater-CIA-JSOC covert action in,
251
â253,
406
â413
and Davis incident,
403
â407
drone strikes in,
177
,
248
â252,
255
,
352
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406
,
411
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412
,
413
,
421
â422,
459
,
519
earthquake (2005) in,
176
HVTs in,
175
â177
insurgency in,
332
kill/capture operations in,
406
â408,
410
,
411
SOFs in,
215
â218
and Special Ops/CIA reassigned to Iraq,
139
Taliban and al Qaeda targets in,
217
â218
and US, relationship between,
427
and US “hot pursuit” arrangement,
216
US outsourcing of war in,
177
US spy programs in,
250
See also
Inter-Services Intelligence
Panetta, Leon
and Afghanistan,
282
and Awlaki, Anwar, targeted killing of,
503
and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound,
435
,
436
,
441
,
442
,
446
and CIA,
352
and CIA-JSOC divide,
297
and Davis incident,
425
â426
and Pakistan, drone strikes in,
249
and secret prisons/black sites,
294
Pasha, Ahmad Shuja,
413
Paul, Ron,
503
Pavitt, James,
133
Pentagon
and Camp NAMA,
156
â157,
157
â158
and CIA, conflict between,
30
and CIA, conflict between, and Iraq and 9/11-Saddam and al Qaeda connection,
81
â84
and CIA, conflict between, and Pakistan,
217
luncheon, February 2002,
45
and Pakistan, HVTs in,
175
Perry, Jeff (pseud.),
152
,
155
â156,
156
â157
Personnel Recovery Academy (JPRA),
87
PET.
See
Danish Intelligence Service
Petraeus, David,
427
and Afghanistan,
282
and al Qaeda HVTs, strikes against,
236
and AQAP, in Yemen,
258
â259
and bin Laden at Abbottabad compound,
443
as CIA director,
498
as commander of CENTCOM,
236
and counterterrorism policy, expansion of,
261
and Iraq, destruction of,
179
and Iraq insurgency,
164
and JSOC operations, expansion of,
297
and Majalah massacre,
323
and McChrystal, replacement for,
349
and McChrystal, resignation of,
349
and Obama administration,
258
resignation of,
513
and Saleh, Ali Abdullah, meeting between,
322
â323
and Salvadorization of Iraq,
165
and SOFs, authorization of direct actions by,
282
â283
and Special Police Commando Unit,
165
and Yemen, aid to,
322
and Yemen, AQAP in,
262
Phillips, Richard,
274
â276
Phoenix Program, in Vietnam,
114
Piracy industry, in Somalia
and
Maersk Alabama,
hijacking of,
273
â276,
482
â483
and privatized counterpiracy company,
481
â485
and Puntland region,
483
â484,
485
and
SV Quest,
capture of,
482
â483
Plausible deniability,
91
PNAC.
See
Project for the New American Century
Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, CIA,
15
Political Security Organization (PSO),
185
,
359
Pope Air Force Base,
51
Posse Comitatus Act,
52
Powell, Colin
and Cheney, conflict between,
57
and Cheney, defense plan of,
8
diplomatic agenda of,
57
â58
and Iraq and 9/11âSaddam and al Qaeda connection,
14
â15
and Iraq war, case for,
29
and Rumsfeld, conflict between,
57
and SOFs,
99
and Somalia,
122
and Zarqawi,
113
Presidential authority,
9
,
11
,
24
â25
Presidential power
and Cheney, assumption of,
59
and war,
3
â4
and war, right to declare,
19
â20
and privatized counterpiracy company in Somalia,
481
â485
and Saracen International,
484
,
485
Prine, Carl,
109
Prisoners
protection and treatment of,
29
â30
See also
Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal
Private military contractors,
23
.
See also
Mercenary companies
Project for the New American Century (PNAC),
7
,
8
,
19
Project Icon,
95
Prosper, Pierre-Richard,
484
PSO.
See
Political Security Organization
Qanyare, Mohamed Afrah,
191
,
192
,
193
,
194
and CIA-backed alliance,
118
â121,
124
,
127
defeat of,
201
and Fazul,
199
and ICU, and US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia,
208
and kill and capture campaign,
127
â129
Qaradawi, Sheikh Yusuf al-,
39
Qasaylah, Ali Mahmud al-, assassination of,
230
Qirbi, Abu Bakr al-,
313
,
363
,
465
QRF.
See
Quick Reaction Force
Quick Reaction Force (QRF),
98
Qusay Hussein,
111
Qutb, Sayyid,
188
â189
Rage, Ali Mohamud,
299
,
301
,
395
,
396
,
487
,
491
and Daynile offensive,
492
Rahman, Atiya Abdul.
See
Mahmud, Shaykh Rahman, Omar Abdel,
36
Ramadan offensive (Al Shabab),
396
â397
Rangers,
51
,
102
â103,
108
,
115
,
138
,
143
,
144
,
145
,
159
,
175
,
450
rules of engagement of,
169
Reagan, Ronald
and assassination ban,
5
and JSOC,
51
and presidential authority,
11
Reagan administration,
11
Real Time Regional Gateway, NSA,
162
“Rebuilding America's Defenses,”
19
Red Cross (International Committee of the Red Cross)
and Camp NAMA,
148
and Camp NAMA report,
158
and detainee policy, violation of,
453
and interrogation and torture/techniques,
89
â90
Reed, Jack,
469
Rehman, Ibadur,
419
Reid, Harry,
509
â510
Reid, Richard (aka “Shoe Bomber”),
28
,
320
of Islamic Jihad members,
125
and JSOC,
182
See also
Secret prisons
Reno, Janet,
108
Republican Guard (Iraq),
165
Republican Guard (Yemen),
33
,
211
,
462
Republican Party,
xv
,
9
,
18
,
26
,
36
,
76
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89
,
109
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110
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161
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169
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319
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320
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353
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503
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515
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516
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517
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520
Republicans, and Obama, attack on,
320
â321
Rhodes, Ben,
446
Rice, Condoleezza,
94
and al Qaeda, lethal action against,
18
and al Qaeda/bin Laden,
14
and al Shabab,
226
and Awlaki, Anwar, imprisonment of,
186
and covert action, in Afghanistan,
16
and covert action, in Pakistan,
411
and drone strikes, in Yemen,
78
and interrogation and torture/techniques,
88
Rice, Susan,
324
Richer, Robert,
141
Riggle, Robert,
482
â483
Rimi, Qasim al-,
210
,
230
â231,
324
,
356
as detainee at Guantánamo,
254
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al Qaeda attacks in,
130
Rizzo, John,
25
Robow, Mukhtar,
492
Rocca, Christina,
409
â410
Rodriguez, Alberto,
421
and interrogation and torture/techniques,
89
and Iraq and 9/11âSaddam and al Qaeda connection,
83
Rolling Stone
magazine,
349