Chuck Hagel, Blake Hall, Ishmael Jones, Eric Joyce, Nicholas Karnaze, Juliette Kayyem, John McLaughlin, Renny McPherson, David Mesrobian, Cameron Middleton, Heba Morayef, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, John Paine, Piers Platt, Jessica Reitz, Richard Russell, and James Wolfe. Special thanks go to Mieke Eoyang, Matt Bennett, Sean Gibbons, Jill Pike, and Bill Rapp at Third Way for their support of this project.
Finally, I (Aki) would like to thank my wonderful wife, Dana, who stayed up night after night to edit draft upon draft of this book. Without her assistance and encouragement, Find, Fix, Finish would not have seen the light of day.
APPENDIX I: LIST OF ACRONYMS
AFRICOM Africa Command
AQAP Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
AQI Al-Qaeda in Iraq
AUMF Authorization for Use of Military Force
BSS British Security Service
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
COS Chief of Station
CSG Counterterrorism Security Group
CTC Counterterrorism Center
DCI Director of Central Intelligence
DEVGRU Naval Special Warfare Development Group
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DITSUM Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary
DNI Director of National Intelligence
EIJ Egyptian Islamic Jihad
EIT Enhanced Interrogation Technique
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FM Field Manual
GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters
GID General Intelligence Department
HAMAS Harakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islamiyyah
HUMINT Human Intelligence
HVD High Value Detainee
HVT High Value Target
IC Intelligence Community
ICU Islamic Courts Union
IIS Iraqi Intelligence Service
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRTPA The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
ISI Inter-Services Intelligence
JAG Judge Advocate General
JeM Jaish-e-Mohammed
JSOC Joint Special Operations Command
JTAC Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre
JTJ Jama’at a-Tawhid wa Jihad
JTTF Joint Terrorism Task Force
KSM Khalid Shaykh Mohammed
LeT Lashkar-e-Taiba
LIFG Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
MI5 Military Intelligence-5
MI6 Military Intelligence-6
MNF-I Multi-National Force–Iraq
MON Memorandum of Notification
NCA&T North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
NCTC National Counterterrorism Center
NIC National Intelligence Council
NIE National Intelligence Estimate
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
NSA National Security Agency
NSC National Security Council
NYPD New York Police Department
ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence
OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom
OLC Office of Legal Counsel
OSP Office of Special Plans
PCTEG Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group
PDB President’s Daily Brief
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
QJBR Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad Fi Bilad al-Rafidayn
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
SCIRI The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
SDR Surveillance Detection Route
SEAL Sea, Air, and Land Teams
SF Special Forces
SIGINT Signals Intelligence
SIS Secret Intelligence Service
SOCOM Special Operations Command
SOF Special Operations Forces
SSCI Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
SSE Sensitive Site Exploitation
TATP Triacetone Triperoxide
TFG Transitional Federal Government
TTP Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
TTP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UCMJ Uniform Code of Military Justice
UNSC United Nations Security Council
USA-PATRIOT Act Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
APPENDIX II: IBN SHAYKH AL-LIBI TIMELINE
• September 11, 2001—Al-Qaeda attacks NYC and Washington DC
• September 20, 2001—President Bush declares “war on terror”
• October 2001—US-led coalition invades Afghanistan
• October 2001—USA-PATRIOT Act passes Congress
• November 2001—Al-Libi is captured in Pakistan
• December 2001—Pakistan turns
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