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Abstract: -- The Way of the Knife This new approach to war has been embraced by Washington as a lower risk, lower cost alternative to the messy wars of occupation and has been championed as a clean and surgical way of conflict. But the knife has created enemies just as it has killed them. It has fomented resentments among allies, fueled instability, and created new weapons unbound by the normal rules of accountability during wartime. Mark Mazzetti tracks an astonishing cast of characters on the ground in the shadow war, from a CIA officer dropped into the tribal areas to learn the hard way how the spy games in Pakistan are played to the chain-smoking Pentagon official running an off-the-books spy operation, from a Virginia socialite whom the Pentagon hired to gather intelligence about militants in Somalia to a CIA contractor imprisoned in Lahore after going off the leash. At the heart of the book is the story of two proud and rival entities, the CIA and the American military, elbowing each other for supremacy. The CIA, created as a Cold War espionage service, is now more than ever a paramilitary agency ordered by the White House to kill off America?s enemies?in the mountains of Pakistan and the deserts of Yemen, in the tumultuous civil wars of North Africa and the chaos of Somalia. For its part, the Pentagon has become more like the CIA, dramatically expanding spying missions everywhere. Sometimes, as with the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, their efforts have been perfectly coordinated. Other times, including the failed operations disclosed here for the first time, they have not. For better or worse, their struggles will define American national security in the years to come
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FOR LINDSAY AND MAX
CONTENTS
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)
Charles Allen, Assistant Director, Collection, 19982005
J. Cofer Black, Director, Counterterrorist Center (CTC), 19992002
Dennis Blair, Associate Director, Military Support, 19951996; Director of National Intelligence, 20092010
Richard Blee, Chief, Alec Station (bin Laden Unit of Counterterrorist Center), 19992001
William Casey, Director, 19811987
Duane Dewey Clarridge, operations officer and founder of the Counterterrorist Center
Raymond Davis, CIA contractor, arrested in Pakistan in 2011
Porter Goss, Director, 20042006
Robert Grenier, Chief of Station, Islamabad, 19992002; Director, Counterterrorism Center, 20042006
Michael Hayden, Director, 20062009
Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director, 20062010
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, 20092011
James Pavitt, Deputy Director, Operations, 19992004
David Petraeus, Director, 20112012; Commander, United States Central Command, 20082010
Enrique Prado, operations officer working the Counterterrorist Center and later a Blackwater employee
Jose Rodriguez, Director, Counterterrorist Center, 20022004; Deputy Director, Operations, 20042007
George Tenet, Director, 19972004
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Robert Andrews, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, 20012002
Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 20032007
Michael Furlong, Defense Department official involved in information operations who eventually oversaw private spying operation
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, 20062011
General Stanley McChrystal, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 20032008
Admiral William McRaven, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 20082011
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 20072011
Thomas OConnell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, 20032006
Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, 20112013
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 20012006
THE WHITE HOUSE
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, 20092013
Richard Clarke, Counterterrorism Coordinator, 19982001
PAKISTAN
Shakil Afridi, Pakistani physician hired to spy for the CIA
Lt. General Mahmud Ahmed, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 19992001
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, 20012004
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, 20042007; 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, 20012003
Cameron Munter, United States Ambassador in Islamabad, 20102012
Lt. General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence, 20082012
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, 19902012
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 Qaedas 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 werent gradual and they werent gentle either.... John le Carr, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyE 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.
Youre from America and you belong to the American embassy?
Yes, the anxious American voice boomed above the chatter. My passportat the site I showed the police officer... Its somewhere. Its 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 whats the name?
Raymond Davis, the officer responded.
Raymond Davis, the American confirmed. Can I sit down?
Please do. Give you water? the officer asked.
Do you have a bottle? A bottle of water? Davis asked.
Another officer in the room laughed. You want water? he asked. No money, no water.
Behind the chair where Davis had taken a seat, another policeman walked into the room and asked for an update.
? And he just killed two men?
Raymond Allen Davisa former high school football and wrestling star from western Virginia, a retired Army Green Beret and onetime private soldier for Blackwater USA, and now a clandestine CIA operative in Pakistanhad hours earlier been navigating dense traffic in Lahore, his thick frame wedged into the drivers seat of a white Honda Civic. A city once ruled by Mughals, Sikhs, and the British, Lahore is Pakistans cultural and intellectual capital, and for nearly a decade had been on the fringes of Americas secret war in Pakistan.
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