To Be a Friend Is Fatal (49 page)

Yaghdan and,
226

Zina and,
225

Long, Breckinridge,
269
,
292

Los Angeles Times
,
66
,
148
,
149
,
150

first to publish on plight of US-affiliated Iraqis,
168

Johnson op-ed piece,
167
–69,
229
,
302

Luayy (Iraqi friend),
76

Lugar, Richard,
238

M240G machine gun,
80
–81

Maack, Marcia,
224
,
281
,
302

Mahdi Army,
189
,
209
–10,
212
,
240

Maimonides,
298

al-Maliki, Nouri,
23
,
155
,
156
,
246
,
247

speech before Congress,
156
–57

Mamaux, Lale,
275

Mamet, David,
113

Mansfield, Dr.,
38
–40

Marshall Plan,
49

Martin, Graham,
263
,
265
,
266

Maryam (US-affiliated Iraqi),
170
,
173

Mashael (US-affiliated Iraqi),
106

Mather, Increase,
298

May (US-affiliated Iraqi),
171
–72,
173

Mayer Brown, LLP,
224
,
281
,
302

McCain, John,
156

McDonald, James,
269

Miller, T. Christian,
66
,
148
–49,
150
,
167
–68

“Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting” (1975),
263
–64

MOAG (Mother of All Generators),
58
–61,
66

Mouayyad (US-affiliated Iraqi),
137
,
140
,
303

Muhammara, Iraq,
134

Mujahedeen-e Khalq,
77

Mustafa, Farouk,
19

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(Bremer),
121
,
122

Najaf, Iraq,
26
,
28
–29

National Democratic Institute,
244

National Public Radio,
85

National Security Agency (NSA),
20

Natsios, Andrew,
49

Nazar, Dr. (Fallujah veterinarian),
90
–92

NBC
Nightly News
,
109

Negroponte, John,
235

neoconservatives,
53
,
109
,
121
,
234

New Republic
,
187

New Yorker
,
186
–87

Packer's article “Betrayed,”
190
,
192
,
250

New York Times
:

Arango article on Obama administration disregarding the Hastings amendment,
278

editorial opposing Sauerbrey nomination,
178

Johnson as intern, Middle East Bureau,
20

Worth interview with Johnson,
169

Nightline
,
49

9/11 terrorist attacks,
19
,
74
,
135
–36,
194

Constitutional principles eroded and,
298
–99

delays in visa processing and,
232
,
250

narrowness of thought in Washington and,
262

shutdown of US Refugee Admissions Program and,
177

US reluctance to resettle Muslims after,
235
–36,
261

Nouri (US-affiliated Iraqi),
201

Nugent, Chris,
200
–201,
202
,
203
,
302

List Project and,
203
–4,
302

trip to Iraq with Johnson,
255
,
257

Yaghdan and,
226

Obama, Barack,
17
,
153
,
156
,
178
,
179
,
238
,
270

announcement of Iraq War end,
281
,
286

appointees,
253

excerpt, “Turning the Page in Iraq,”
249
,
251

Hastings bill and,
274
,
278

Johnson's hopes for,
250
–51

Libyan rebels airlifted,
280

Power (Samantha) and,
250
,
253
–54

2013 National Defense Authorization Act,
304

US-affiliated Iraqis and,
249
,
253
,
258
,
259
,
265
,
300

withdrawal from Iraq and,
251
,
273

Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI),
78
–79

funding,
78

rubble removal,
78
–79,
80

Oil Training Institute of Baghdad,
135

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

assassination of,
292
–93

brother of threatened,
294

bureaucratic stalling and,
292

family's request for asylum,
294
,
295

threat letter sent to,
288
–89

wife and child threatened,
293

101st Airborne,
137
,
140
,
307

Charlie Company,
143

Hayder as interpreter for,
139
–40,
142
–45,
147

Operation Baghdad Pups,
303
–4

Packer, George,
186
–87,
190
,
192
,
200
,
231
,
250
,
251

Parsons Corporation,
290
,
295

Paul, Rand,
278

Pelosi, Nancy,
155

Petraeus, David,
234
,
246

Philip, Pate,
11
–12

Poland,
252

Power, Samantha,
153
,
250
,
251
,
270
–71,
275

backpedaling by,
279
–80

NSC meetings,
253
,
260
,
279
–81,
282

Primitivo (Haitian worker),
96
–98,
99

private security firms,
38
,
52
,
55
–56,
59
,
61

Blackwater,
38
,
73
,
298

Problem from Hell, A: America and the Age of Genocide
(Power),
153
,
275

Projects and Contracting Office (PCO),
49

Proskauer Rose LLP,
204
,
225

protection security detail (PSD),
60

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder),
95
–97,
304

Question 19,
165

Refugee Admissions Program,
271
,
277
,
278

Refugee Bureau.
See
US Department of State

Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act,
238
,
244

Refugees and Rescue
(McDonald),
269

Reid, Harry,
155

Republican Guard,
26
,
45

Rhodes, Ben,
251

Rice, Condoleezza,
185

Rijal fi'il-shams
(
Men in the Sun
) (Kanafani),
19

Rolling Stone
magazine,
280

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
270

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
269

Rosen, Nir,
85

Rosenblatt, Lionel,
266

Roskam, Peter,
237

Rumsfeld, Donald,
105
,
156
,
169

al-Sadr, Muqtada,
173
,
189
,
209
,
240

Sadr City, Iraq,
62
,
68

“Safeguarding Our Allies” (Johnson),
168
–69

Safe Report
,
55
–56

“Saga of Njáll Burned Alive,”
71
–72

Salem witch trials,
298

Samarra, Iraq,
107
–9,
162
,
168
,
178

Santorum, Rick,
157

Saudi Arabia,
207

Shi'a refugees in,
26

Voice of the South radio station in,
25

Sauerbrey, Ellen,
177
–78,
229
,
253
,
275

ABC World News
profile and,
194
,
229

denies Refugee Bureau has Johnson's list,
194
,
229

Johnson as
persona non grata
with,
194

testimony before House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
231
,
231
–32

Schlesinger, James R.,
264

Schlosser, Julie,
228

Schwartz, Eric,
253
,
273
,
275
,
276
,
278

Second Marine Expeditionary Force,
76
,
84
,
93

Civil Affairs Group,
80
,
89

Fallujah convoy runs,
81
–83

Johnson and,
80
–83

med packs,
81
–82

Seneca,
166

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(Lawrence),
87
–88

shemagh (men's headcovering),
3

Shi'a,
23

in Basrah,
207
,
209

Iraq government dominated by,
247

Iraq uprising late 1970s,
23

militia,
212
,
257

refugees (1991),
26

sharia law instituted by,
234

in Southern Iraq,
57

Sunni attack on Al-Askari Shrine,
107
–8

uprising following Gulf War,
25
–26

Short Guide to Iraq, A
(US Army, 1943),
35
–36

Siemens,
61

60 Minutes
,
27

60 Minutes II
,
62

Skanninge, Stockholm,
15

Smith, Gordon,
238

Snake (US-affiliated Iraqi),
219

Snow, Tony,
109

solatia (condolence payments),
84
–85,
86

Special Immigrant Visa (SIV),
238
,
242
,
244
,
253
,
274

expiration of,
302

killing of program,
245

poor performance of,
271
,
278

waiver of “original signature,”
281

Stearman, William,
264

Stevens, Ted,
155

Stover, Col. Steven,
246

Suhair,
32
,
65
,
66

Sunnis,
23

in Baghdad,
57

as Basrah minority,
207
,
209

militants, attack on Al-Askari Shrine,
107
–8

the
Sahwa
(“Awakening”) and,
234
,
246

Sweden: Iraqi refugees in,
189

Syria:

Iraqi refugees in,
108
,
109
,
162
,
168
,
189
,
240
,
259

Mahdi Army in,
189

US sanctions on,
59

Tara (sister of Zina),
207

application for refugee status,
230

at Camp Taji, Pod
23
,
215
,
216

danger and risks faced by,
218

in Egypt,
230

flight from Iraq,
220

Halliburton-KBR and,
213
–14

life in America,
306

Titan Corporation and,
214

Tarmiyah province, Iraq,
216

Mushahada,
217

reimbursements to,
218

violence in,
218
–19

Tartous, Syria,
59

Thieu, Nguyen Van,
265

Thompson, James “Big Jim,”
11

Tides Foundation,
204
–5,
256
–57

Time
magazine,
131
,
250

Titan Corporation,
148
–50

interpreters working for,
214

Iraqi employees, slain/injured list,
299
–300

Tobias, Randall,
182

Tona (US-affiliated Iraqi),
106
–7,
160
,
184

claims asylum in the US,
201

employed by the List Project,
205
,
224
,
225

Tonga,
20
–21

Tragedy on the Horizon: A History of Just and Unjust Withdrawal
(List Project),
272

Turkey,
136

Iraqi refugees in,
26
,
290

“Turning the Page in Iraq” (Obama),
249
,
251

United Arab Emirates,
5
,
161

United Kingdom:

affiliated Iraqis assassinated,
252

British withdrawal from Iraq,
252

Iraqis granted refugee status,
252

United Nations:

High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
149
,
150
,
172
,
177
,
181
,
199
,
221
,
226
,
228
,
232