A Note To The Reader xxiii
Prologue 1(2)
1 "There Was Concern... That We Not Create an American Hit List"
Washington, DC, 2001-2002
3(28)
2 Anwar Awlaki: An American Story
The United States And Yemen, 1971-2002
31(17)
3 Find, Fix, Finish: The Rise Of Jsoc
Washington, DC, 1979-2001
48(13)
4 The Boss: Ali Abdullah Saleh
Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001
61(6)
5 The Enigma Of Anwar Awlaki
The United Kingdom, The United States And Yemen, 2002-2003
67(8)
6 "We're In A New Kind Of War"
Djibouti, Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2002
75(6)
7 Special Plans
Washington, DC, 2002
81(4)
8 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape
Washington, DC, 2002-2003
85(17)
9 The Troublemaker: Stanley Mcchrystal
The United States, 1974-2003; Iraq, 2003
102(16)
10 "Their Intention And Our Intention Is The Same"
Somalia, 1993-2004
118(12)
11 "A Defeated Enemy Is Not A Vanquished One"
Yemen, 2003-2006
130(4)
12 "Never Trust A Nonbeliever"
The United Kingdom, 2003
134(4)
13 "You Don't Have To Prove To Anyone That You Did Right"
Iraq, 2003-2005
138(9)
14 "No Blood, No Foul"
Iraq, 2003-2004
147(15)
15 The Death Star
Iraq, 2004
162(5)
16 "The Best Technology, The Best Weapons, The Best People---And Plenty Of Money To Burn"
Afghanistan, Iraq And Pakistan, 2003-2006
167(13)
17 "A Lot Of It Was Of Questionable Legality"
Source: "Hunter"
180(4)
18 The Imprisonment Of Anwar Awlaki
Yemen, 2004-2007
184(7)
19 "America Knows War. They Are War Masters."
Somalia, 2004-2006
191(19)
20 Prison Break
Yemen, 2006
210(5)
21 Hot Pursuit
Pakistan, 2006-2008
215(4)
22 "Every Step Taken By The Us Benefited Al Shabab"
Somalia, 2007-2009
219(11)
23 "If Your Son Does Not Come To Us, He Will Be Killed By The Americans"
Yemen, 2007-2009
230(14)
24 "Obama Is Set To Continue The Course Set By Bush"
United States, 2002-2008
244(4)
25 Obama's Signature Strikes
Pakistan And Washington, DC, 2009
248(6)
26 Special Ops Want To "Own This Shit Like They Did In Central America In The '80s"
Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2009
254(10)
27 Suicide Or Martyrdom?
Yemen, 2009
264(6)
28 Obama Embraces Jsoc
Somalia, Early 2009
270(8)
29 "Let Jsoc Off The Leash"
Saudi Arabia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, Late 2009
278(7)
30 Samir Khan: An Unlikely Foot Soldier
The United States and Yemen, 2001-2009
285(9)
31 Blowback In Somalia
Somalia and Washington, DC, 2009
294(9)
32 "If They Kill Innocent Children And Call Them Al Qaeda, Then We Are All Al Qaeda"
Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009
303(11)
33 "The Americans Really Wanted To Kill Anwar"
Yemen, Late 2009-Early 2010
314(11)
34 "Mr. Barack Obama...I Hope That You Reconsider Your Order To Kill...My Son"
Washington, DC, and Yemen, Early 2010
325(3)
35 One Night In Gardez
Washington, DC, 2008-2010; Afghanistan, 2009-2010
328(22)
36 The Year Of The Drone
Yemen and The United States, 2010
350(6)
37 Driving Anwar Awlaki To Hell
Yemen, 2010
356(8)
38 The Cia's Dating Service
Denmark and Yemen, 2010
364(3)
39 "The Auction Of The Assassin"
Washington, DC, 2010
367(8)
40 "Martyrdom Is Why We Came Here, My Brother"
Yemen, 2009-2010
375(7)
41 The Persecution Of Abdulelah Haider Shaye
Yemen, Summer 2010
382(4)
42 The President Can Write His Own Rules
Washington, DC, and Yemen, Late 2010
386(7)
43 Al Qaeda's "Foothold In Somalia Has Probably Been Facilitated"
Somalia, 2010
393(5)
44 "Anwar Awlaki...Definitely Has A Missile In His Future"
Yemen, 2011
398(5)
45 The Curious Case Of Raymond Davis: Act I
Pakistan, 2011
403(11)
46 The Curious Case Of Raymond Davis: Act II
Pakistan, 2011
414(16)
47 The Tsunami Of Change
Austria And Yemen, 2011
430(4)
48 The Fortress In Abbottabad
Washington, DC, 2010-2011; Pakistan, 2011
434(10)
49 "We Got Him. We Got Him."
Pakistan, 2011
444(7)
50 "Now They're After My Son"
Somalia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011
451(7)
51 "It Was Cold-Blooded"
Pakistan, 2011
458(2)
52 "The Us Sees Al Qaeda As Terrorism, And We Consider The Drones Terrorism"
Yemen, Late 2011
460(9)
53 The Pink House
Washington, DC, and Somalia, 2011
469(18)
54 "Total Savagery Throughout The Country"
Somalia, 2011
487(8)
55 Abdulrahman Vanishes
Yemen, 2011
495(3)
56 Hellfire
Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2011
498(9)
57 Paying For The Sins Of The Father
Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2011
507(6)
Epilogue: Perpetual War 513(10)
Acknowledgments 523(6)
Acronyms And Abbreviations 529(2)
Notes 531(84)
Index 615