To Be a Friend Is Fatal (46 page)

US Embassy in,
226

Defense Base Act,
150

Denmark,
252

Dershowitz, Alan,
299

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
,
87

DeVry University, Keller School of Management,
306

Dewey, Arthur,
177

Dina (wife of Hayder),
135
,
136
,
137
,
149
,
230

in Amman, Jordan,
149
,
226
,
227

child born,
141

fears for Hayder,
143
,
147

life in America,
306
–8

dissociative fugue state,
96
–97,
118
–19,
174
,
175

Dobriansky, Paula,
229
,
230

Dominican Republic,
93
,
95
–96

Johnson's fugue state and injuries in,
95
–102,
242

Johnson's ring lost/found in,
96

DSM-IV
(
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
),
118

Dubai, UAE,
162

Dumford, Dick,
58

Durbin, Dick,
155

Dwight, Ronald,
148
,
227

Egypt:

Halliburton-KBR in,
221

Iraqi refugees in,
220
–21,
230

Islamist “pulp” writings,
20

Johnson on Fulbright scholarship in,
20

mukhabarat
(secret police),
189

Zaid tortured in,
189

Eighty-Second Airborne,
144
–45,
149
,
228
,
281

Eikenberry, Karl,
303

electricity and Iraq,
94

American failure to restore power,
32
,
141

American invasion and loss of,
29

Bechtel assessments of,
125

belief that Americans would restore,
30

entrepreneurs and fatalities,
58

MOAG and,
58
–61

as overriding need,
57
,
139

Saddam Hussein's policy,
57

unrest and lack of,
57
–61

USAID and Bechtel contract for,
58

Eliot, T. S.,
265

Eva (US-affiliated Iraqi),
219
,
220

Faisal, King,
134

Fallujah, Iraq,
58
,
69
,
73
–75

assassination of Sheikh Kamal in,
129

battle and siege of,
73
–74

burning of Blackwater mercenaries,
74
,
298

Camp Fallujah,
77
,
80
,
87
,
94
,
113

citizens of,
83

Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) in,
81
,
83
–86,
89
,
90
,
187

contractors and subcontractors in,
78

convoy runs,
81
–83

getting PUC'd up (person under control) in,
86
–87

“ink-spot” approach to,
75

insurgency in,
83
–84,
85

Iraqis return to,
235

irrigation canal project in,
92

Johnson in, as “regional coordinator for reconstruction,” USAID,
75
,
76
,
77
–80,
81
,
84
–86,
89
–94,
187

Johnson's quarters in,
77
,
87
,
93

mayor's office furniture,
78
,
90

poetry festival in,
85
–86

police force,
83

“restive city of,”
78

rubble removal in,
80
,
86
,
89
–90,
92
–93

slaughterhouse in,
91

sniper in,
84
,
85
,
86

solatia (condolence payments),
84
–85

tensions in,
84

veterinary clinic and supplies,
78
,
90
–92

wasted US money and fraud in,
89
–92

“Fallujah Tragedy, The,”
85
–86

Farahidi Institute,
210

FedEx: Iraqis employed by,
170
,
173
,
174

First Marine Expeditionary Force,
93

Folsom, John,
304

Ford, Gerald,
232
,
265
,
267

Fox News,
108
,
256

Franklin, Benjamin,
298

General Accounting Office (GAO),
85

Genesis 11:5–7,
297
–98

Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees,
150

non-refoulement
principle,
150

Gonzales, Alberto,
156

Green Zone (Baghdad, Iraq):

body armor hierarchy in,
47
–48

Bunker Bar,
55

car bombs detonated in,
259

convention center,
56

electricity in,
57

fortifications,
3
,
55

Hammurabi Office Building,
160
,
258

Iraqis employed in,
62
–66

Johnson leaves,
75
–76

Jordanians in,
66

life in,
47
,
55
,
76

Nepalese employed in,
3
,
47
,
256

NOB (New Office Building),
45

private security firms and,
55
–56

Rhino Runner,
56
,
255
,
259

shelling of,
48
,
55
,
62

USAID compound,
3
,
45
,
76
,
160

US Embassy in,
160
,
238

US housing in,
3

Voice of God,
48

“White house,”
3

Zone Washington,
43

Gregory, David,
236

Groningen, Netherlands,
15

Grotberg, John,
9
–10

Guam option,
253
,
254
,
270
–74,
275
,
276
,
280

Gulf War,
25
,
74

Shi'a uprising following,
25
–26

Habib, Philip,
263
–64

Haifa (wife of Yaghdan),
3
,
27
,
32
,
33
,
160
,
161
,
173
,
226
,
241

in Syria,
189
,
240

threats and,
159

in the UAE,
161
–62

US bombing of Baghdad and,
28
–29

as naturalized US citizen,
306

Halliburton-KBR,
47
,
62
,
213
,
244
,
255

Hammurabi,
156

Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, The
,
87

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
250

Hastert, Dennis,
11
,
154
–58,
167
,
190
,
237

Iraqi refugee plight and,
169

Hastings, Alcee,
272
,
274

Hastings Amendment (National Defense Authorization Act of 2010),
274
,
275
,
276
,
278

Al-Hayat
newspaper,
20

Hayder “Homeboy” (US-affiliated Iraqi),
133
–51,
303

American invasion and,
136
–37,
138

amputation and disabilities,
147
,
227
–28

application for refugee status,
149
–50,
226
–28,
230

childhood in the UK,
133

courtship and marriage,
135

danger and risks faced by,
142
–43

Dora as home,
136
,
137
,
142
–43

Eighty-Second Airborne and,
144
–45,
149
,
228
,
281

epilogue written by,
307
–8

family's return to Iraq,
134

father of,
133
–34,
135
,
147
,
148

as “Homeboy,”
140

Iran–Iraq War and,
134

Johnson and,
227
–28

in Jordan,
149
–50,
227
,
230

LA Times
article on,
149

lawsuit against AIG and compensation,
151

lawyer (Dwight) and,
148
,
227

life in America,
306
–8

love of Americans,
141

as refugee in Jordan,
150

son Ali,
141
,
230

Titan Corporation and,
148
–50

T. Miller and,
148
,
149
,
150

as translator for US military,
139
–40

in Tunis quarter,
133
,
135

wife, Dina,
135
,
136
,
137
,
141
,
143
,
147
,
149
,
226
,
230

wounding of,
144
–46

Hellermann, Brian,
144
–45

Herrington, Stuart,
267

Hezbollah,
155

hijab (women's headscarf),
3
,
207
,
213

Hoekstra, Peter,
157

Holbrooke, Richard,
269
–70

Holland and Knight, LLP,
200
,
202
,
204
,
205
,
225
,
255
,
302

Homs, Syria,
189
,
240

“Hot in Herre” (Nelly),
139

Hussein, Saddam,
20
–21,
62
,
73
,
74
,
133
,
207
,
215
,
233

Ba'ath Party executions (1979),
23

control of media,
136

electricity policy,
57

fall of,
29

infrastructure reconstruction, US firms,
24

invasion of Kuwait (1990),
24
–25

Iran–Iraq War and,
23
–24

Mujahedeen-e Khalq and,
77

9/11 terrorist attacks and,
136

Republican Guard,
26

Shi'a uprising crushed (1991),
26

trial of,
204

Western world's support of,
24

Iceland,
20
–21

Viking saga,
71
–72

IEDs (improvised explosive devices),
3
,
43
,
74
,
82

amounts paid to children and,
79

detainees and,
87

informant about,
217

Zina's Humvee and,
218

Immigration and Nationality Act,
252

Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act,
267

insurgency,
31
,
47
,
55
,
63
,
64
,
75
,
76

American attitudes toward,
68
,
79

economy of,
79
–80

electricity problems and,
61

in Fallujah,
83
–84,
85

Green Zone and,
62
,
68

payments by,
79

al-Zarqawi as leader,
73

International Organization for Migration,
199

International Republican Institute,
244

Iran:

Iraqi refugees in,
26

revolutionary government,
24

Iran–Iraq War,
23
–24,
74
,
133
,
157

Kuwait's bankrolling of,
24

Iraq:

American attitudes toward Iraqis,
38
–40,
43
,
46
–47,
62
–66,
79
,
92
,
109
,
160

American companies in,
24
,
29
–30,
32
–33,
47
,
61
,
62
,
87
,
125
,
148
–49,
150
,
213
,
214
,
244
–45,
290

American names for roads,
82

American dollars wasted in,
58
–61,
79
,
89
–92,
233

Arab naming conventions and,
87

Awakening movement,
234
,
246

“axis of evil” and,
136
,
236

Camp Victory,
94
,
95
,
255
–56

civil war,
108
–9,
155
,
157
,
168
,
245

Coalition Provisional Authority,
57
,
121

culture of,
3
,
38
–39,
92
,
135
,
140
–41,
207
,
209