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The Way of the Knife

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Copyright © Mark Mazzetti, 2013

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FOR
LINDSAY
AND
MAX

CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
PROLOGUE:
THE WAR BEYOND
1:
PERMISSION TO KILL
2:
A MARRIAGE AMONG SPIES
3:
CLOAK-AND-DAGGER MEN
4:
RUMSFELD’S SPIES
5:
THE ANGRY BIRD
6:
A TRUE PASHTUN
7:
CONVERGENCE
8:
A WAR BY PROXY
9:
THE BASE
10:
GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS
11:
THE OLD MAN’S RETURN
12:
THE SCALPEL’S EDGE
13:
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
14:
THE UNRAVELING
15:
THE DOCTOR AND THE SHEIKH
16:
FIRE FROM THE SKY
EPILOGUE:
A SPY IN LEISURE WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON SOURCES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)

Charles Allen, Assistant Director, Collection, 1998–2005
J. Cofer Black, Director, Counterterrorist Center (CTC), 1999–2002
Dennis Blair, Associate Director, Military Support, 1995–1996; Director of National Intelligence, 2009–2010
Richard Blee, Chief, Alec Station (bin Laden Unit of Counterterrorist Center), 1999–2001
William Casey, Director, 1981–1987
Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, operations officer and founder of the Counterterrorist Center
Raymond Davis, CIA contractor, arrested in Pakistan in 2011
Porter Goss, Director, 2004–2006
Robert Grenier, Chief of Station, Islamabad, 1999–2002; Director, Counterterrorism Center, 2004–2006
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Michael Hayden, Director, 2006–2009
Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director, 2006–2010
Art Keller, operations officer in Pakistan, 2006
Mike, Director, Counterterrorism Center, 2006–
Ross Newland, operations officer in Latin America and Eastern Europe; later, top official at CIA headquarters
Leon Panetta, Director, 2009–2011
James Pavitt, Deputy Director, Operations, 1999–2004
David Petraeus, Director, 2011–2012; Commander, United States Central Command, 2008–2010
Enrique Prado, operations officer working the Counterterrorist Center and later a Blackwater employee
Jose Rodriguez, Director, Counterterrorist Center, 2002–2004; Deputy Director, Operations, 2004–2007
George Tenet, Director, 1997–2004

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Robert Andrews, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, 2001–2002
Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 2003–2007
Michael Furlong, Defense Department official involved in information operations who eventually oversaw private spying operation
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, 2006–2011
General Stanley McChrystal, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 2003–2008
Admiral William McRaven, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 2008–2011
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2007–2011
Thomas O’Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, 2003–2006
Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, 2011–2013
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001–2006

THE WHITE HOUSE

John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, 2009–2013
Richard Clarke, Counterterrorism Coordinator, 1998–2001

PAKISTAN

Shakil Afridi, Pakistani physician hired to spy for the CIA
Lt. General Mahmud Ahmed, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 1999–2001
Lt. General Ali Jan Aurakzai, Pakistani military commander responsible for operations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Raymond Davis, CIA contractor arrested in Lahore in 2011
Lt. General Ehsan ul Haq, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence, 2001–2004
Jalaluddin Haqqani, leader of criminal network based in Pakistani tribal areas who has carried out attacks against American troops in Afghanistan
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence, 2004–2007; Chief of Army Staff, 2007–
Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani Taliban leader after the death of Nek Muhammad Wazir
Brigadier-General Asad Munir, ISI station chief in Peshawar, 2001–2003
Cameron Munter, United States Ambassador in Islamabad, 2010–2012
Lt. General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence, 2008–2012
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, head of Lashkar-e-Taiba (“Army of the Pure”)
Nek Muhammad Wazir, Pakistani Taliban leader in tribal areas

YEMEN

Ibrahim al-Asiri, master bomb maker for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, son of Anwar al-Awlaki
Anwar al-Awlaki, radical preacher and member of AQAP who was an American citizen
Ali Abdullah Saleh, President, 1990–2012

SOMALIA

Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, early leader of al Shabaab
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, leader of Islamic Courts Union
Michele “Amira” Ballarin, American businesswoman and government contractor
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, Kenyan member of al Qaeda’s East Africa cell killed in 2009
Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), collection of CIA-funded Somali warlords
Al Shabaab (“The Youth”), armed wing of Islamic Courts Union

PROLOGUE:
THE WAR BEYOND

“Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness. The scalphunters were the exception to his own rule. They weren’t gradual and they weren’t gentle either. . . .”
—John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

E
scorted by Pakistani policemen, the burly American spy was brought into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi, and English, the investigator tried to decipher the facts of the case.

“America, you from America?”

“Yes.”

“You’re from America and you belong to the American embassy?”

“Yes,” the anxious American voice boomed above the chatter. “My passport—at the site I showed the police officer . . . It’s somewhere. It’s lost.”

On the jumpy video footage of the interrogation, he reached beneath his checkered flannel shirt and produced a jumble of identification badges from a lanyard around his neck. It was one of the few things he had managed to hold on to after the chaotic scene at the traffic circle.

“This is an old badge. This is Islamabad.” He showed the badge to the man across the desk and then flipped to a more recent badge proving his employment in the American consulate in Lahore.

A telephone rang, and one of the officers in the crowded room dispatched with the call quickly. “We arrested an embassy man. I will call you back.” The interrogation resumed.

“You are working at the consulate general in Lahore?”

“Yes.”

“As a . . . ?”

“I, I just work as a consultant there.”

“Consultant?” The man behind the desk was skeptical. He paused for a moment and then shot a question in Urdu to another policeman. “And what’s the name?”

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