To Be a Friend Is Fatal (48 page)

Al-Jazeera,
56
,
135
–36,
172

John (defense contractor),
87

Johnson, Carolyn (sister-in-law),
97
,
98
,
99

Johnson, Derek (brother),
7
,
12
,
13
,
16
,
97
–98,
99
,
100
,
233
,
285

Johnson, Kirk W.,
7
,
15

ABC World News
interview,
191
–92

American Amnesia
(blog),
153

apartment in New York City,
224
,
245

Arabic fluency and studies,
18
–19,
21
,
156
,
169
,
298

arrival in Baghdad,
42
–43

basketball aspirations,
16
–17

in Brighton,
166
,
171
,
174
,
182
,
197

Caribbean vacation,
93
–96

checklist following accident,
117
,
125
,
132

childhood,
12
–14,
233

code name,
76

Congressional testimony (2010),
272
–74

danger faced in Iraq,
81
–83,
86
,
94

dating,
174
–75

disillusionment,
67
,
68

dissociative fugue state and,
95
–97,
118
–19,
174
–75,
181
–82,
304

Egypt trip and interest in Arabic,
18

email from Zina,
223
–24

failed wrist surgery,
125
–27

in Fallujah, as “regional coordinator for reconstruction,”
75
,
76
,
77
–80,
81
,
84
–86,
89
–94,
125
,
187

Fallujah convoy runs,
81
–83

Fallujah flight,
76
–77

Fallujah quarters,
77
,
87
,
93

Fallujah return, desire for,
114
–15,
117
,
120
,
125
–26

family history,
15
–16

family of, taking in refugees,
239
,
240

father and,
9
–12,
14
,
40
–41,
97
–103,
120
,
158
,
240
,
241

feeling of failure,
129
,
132
,
154

flashbacks/nightmares,
113
–14

Fulbright scholarship, Egypt,
20

grandmother, Henrietta, and,
16
–18

Green Zone life,
56

as “grenade swatter,”
82

Hastert and,
154
–58,
190

hate mail,
194
–95

Hayder and,
227
–28

HELO playlist of,
179
,
255

home in West Chicago,
12
–13,
14
,
101
–3,
111
–31

IDU
and,
51
–53,
67
,
76
,
185
,
258

injuries of 2005, treatment, and recovery,
1
–2,
97
–103,
111
,
113
–31,
175
,
190
,
242
,
246
,
304
–5

insurgency fantasy of,
127
–29

Iraqi workers, relationship with,
42
–43,
48

Iraq War, decision to go to,
21

journalists' interest in refugees and,
190
–91

Kennedy and,
192
–94

Kirkuk visit and MOAG,
59
–60

law school and,
37
,
132
,
153
–54,
158
,
171
,
174
,
182
,
204
,
205

list created by,
174
,
175
,
179

as List Project director,
224
,
228
–29,
235
,
245
,
260
–62

M240G machine gun practice,
80
–81

medical bills,
127
,
130

mother and,
17
,
18
,
40
–41,
93
,
95
,
116
,
124
,
126
,
154

motivations of,
68
–69,
76
,
89
,
93
,
166
,
167
,
171
,
305

Negroponte meeting with,
235

New York Times
interview,
169

as
New York Times
Middle East bureau intern,
20
,
21

NSA recruitment,
20

Nugent and,
200
–201,
203
–5,
255
,
257

Obama and,
250
–51

op-ed piece for
Los Angeles Times
,
167
–69,
229
,
302

op-ed piece for
New York Times
,
281
–82

op-ed piece for
Washington Post
,
279

Packer and,
186
–87,
250

as
persona non grata
,
186
,
301

piano/organ playing,
56
,
118

pleas for help emailed to,
162
,
166
,
170
–73,
185
,
190
,
198
–99,
227
–28,
283
–96,
305

Power, NSC meetings, and,
153
,
250
,
251
,
253
,
254
,
279
–81,
282

pre-deployment, time with family,
40
–41

public's offers of support for US-affiliated Iraqis sent to,
194
–95

refugee assistance begun,
167
,
169
–75

Refugee Bureau meeting, first,
179
–81

return to Iraq (2009),
254
–59

return to USAID, Baghdad (2009),
258
–59

Sauerbrey and,
194
,
231

search for support for Iraqi asylum cases,
200

Second Marine Expeditionary Force and,
80
–83

State Department call to, with complaint,
198
–200

stress and,
94
,
95
–96

stress and migraine,
197
–98

UN summit on the Iraqi refugee crisis and,
300
–301

USAID hires,
37

USAID housing, Green Zone,
43
,
76
,
258

USAID meeting in Washington (2007),
182
–85

USAID PAO, Baghdad,
45
–48,
50
–53,
56
,
67

USAID phones returned,
129
–30

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

USAID's email system and,
117
–18

USAID training,
37
–38

USAID transfer request,
69

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and,
158

Vietnam War, lessons of and,
265
–68

Yaghdan and,
53
,
57
,
162
,
166
,
173
,
204
,
240
–42

Zaid and,
169
,
171
,
172
,
173

Johnson, Soren (brother),
7
,
12
,
13
,
16
,
18
,
99

Johnson, Tom (father),
237

political campaign of,
9
–12,
158

son's deployment to Iraq and,
40
–41

son's fugue state and injuries,
97
–103

son's recuperation and,
120

as state representative,
14

taking in refugees and,
239
,
240

in Vietnam,
13
,
41
,
76

Johnstone, Craig,
266
,
273
–74

Jordan:

Iraqi refugees in,
108
,
109
,
150
,
172
,
227
,
230
,
259

MOAG rerouted through,
59

pencils ferried to Iraq,
26

US Embassy in,
149
,
227

Kafka, Franz,
243

Kaguyutan, Janice,
200

Kamal, Sheikh (head of Fallujah City Council),
129

Kamen, Al,
65

Kanafani, Ghassan,
19

Karbala', Iraq,
26
,
28
,
29
,
161

Kaufmann, Marlene,
275

Kawkaz, Mohammed Khalil,
85
–86

Kazakhstan,
20
–21

KBR.
See
Halliburton-KBR

Kennedy, Edward “Ted,”
192
–93,
200
,
238
,
242
,
244
,
246
,
302

Kennedy, John F.,
49

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
250

Kerik, Bernie,
171
–72

Kerr-McGee Chemical Company,
14

Khalilzad, Zalmay,
107

kharze zarqas
(amulets),
135

kidnappings,
31
,
79
,
209
,
212
,
225
,
257
,
293

Kimmitt, Gen. Mark,
73

Kirkuk, Iraq,
287
,
290

Camp Warrior,
295

MOAG and,
59

Omar assassinated in,
292
–93

Kissinger, Henry,
172
,
263
–64,
265

Koppel, Ted,
49

Kosovar refugees (1999),
252

Kurds,
26
,
57

Kuwait,
141
,
259

Ali Al-Salem air base,
255

British and,
25

Iran's war debt to,
24

Iraq invasion (1990),
24
–25

Laos,
271

Hmong in,
268

Lawrence, T. E.,
87
–88

Libya,
280

Lindsay Light Company,
13
–14

List Project (to Resettle Iraqi Allies),
197
–205,
237

ABC World News
and,
192

Afghani requests to,
303
,
305
–6

Basma as staff,
302

bureaucratic stalling and,
269
–70,
302
,
303

Congressional hearings,
272
–74

Congressional support,
237
–38

difficulties of (2008),
246

first win of,
240

funding for,
204
,
224
,
228
,
245
,
304

“the Guam option” proposed,
253
,
254
,
270
–74,
275
,
276
,
280

Hayder and,
226
–28

interpreters' pleas to,
247

Johnson as director,
205
,
224
,
228
–29,
235
,
245
,
260
–62

Johnson makes a list,
174
,
175
,
195

Johnson meets with US-affiliated Iraqis in Baghdad (2009),
257
–59

Johnson's new strategy,
262

Johnson's vision for,
228

Johnson takes his list to the DOS,
179
–81

Johnson takes his list to the Refugee Bureau,
276
–77

launching of,
205
,
224

law firms' support for,
203
–4,
205
,
224
–25,
254
,
260
,
281
,
302

new applications to,
302

nonprofit status,
204
–5

number of Iraqis helped,
254
,
260
,
271
,
282

number of names,
238
,
251
,
254
,
260
,
265

Omar (US-affiliated Iraqi) and,
283
–96,
299

Omar's family asylum request and,
295
–96

opposition to,
235
–37

protest against interpreters' mask ban,
246

refugees becoming US citizens,
306
,
307

Tides Foundation grant,
204
–5,
256

Tona and Amina as staff,
205
,
224
,
225
,
302

Tragedy on the Horizon: A History of Just and Unjust Withdrawal
,
272

Vanderbilt law students and,
271

Wisner added to board of,
267