18. “Taliban Leader Baitullah Mehsud Escapes U.S Missile Strike,” Trends Updates, June 24, 2009.
19. “US Drone Kills Scores of People in Tribal Zone,” Times (London), June 25, 2009.
20. “Missile Attack Kills Fifty in South Waziristan,” Dawn, June 24, 2009.
21. Nick Schifrin, “CIA Drone Strike Kills Wife of Pakistani Taliban Chief,” ABC News, August 5, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8258637&page=1.
22. Ismail Khan, “Good Riddance, Killer Baitullah,” Dawn, August 8, 2009.
23. Ibid.
24. “Baitullah Mehsud Dead,” Paklinks.com, August 6, 2009, http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/339128-baitullah-mehsud-dead.html.
25. “Taleban Commander Baitullah Mehsud Killed in US Missile Strike,” Times, August 8, 2009.
26. Jane Mayer, “The Predator War: What Are the Risks of the C.I.A.’s Covert Drone Program?” New Yorker, October 26, 2009.
27. Ishtiaq Mahsud, “New Pakistani Taliban Leader Vows Revenge,” SFGate, October 6, 2009, http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Pakistani-Taliban-leader-vows-revenge-3284609.php.
28. “New Taliban Leader Vows to Carry on War,” Sky News, September 18, 2009, http://news.sky.com/story/725368/new-taliban-leader-vows-to-carry-on-war.
29. “Pakistan Taliban Says Leader Injured in Attack,” CNN, January 15, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/15/pakistan.taliban/index.html.
2. A HISTORY OF THE PASHTUN TRIBAL LANDS OF PAKISTAN
1. Mary Anne Weaver, Pakistan: Deep Inside the World’s Most Frightening State (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 69.
2. “Pakistan Air Force/Pakistan Fiza’ya,” http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article14.html (accessed on January 27, 2011).
3. “The Pakistani US Relationship,” Defense Journal, April 1998.
4. “Frenemies,” Newsweek, May 23, 2011.
5. Peter Bergen, Holy War Inc. (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 73.
6. The Pashtuns make up about 40 percent of Afghanistan.
7. “CIA Tried to Have Bin Laden Killed,” New York Times, September 30, 2001.
8. “Officials: U.S. Missed Chance to Kill Bin Laden,” Associated Press, June 23, 2003.
9. Daniel Schorr, “Reviewing the Presidential Ban on Assassinations,” National Public Radio, September 17, 2001, http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/essays/010917.schorrcommentary.html.
3. ENTER THE PREDATOR
1. Bill Yenne, Birds of Prey: Predators, Reapers and America’s Newest UAVs in Combat (North Branch, MN: Specialty Books, 2010), 15.
2. Linda D. Kozaryn, “Predators Bound for Bosnia,” American Forces Press Service, U.S. Department of Defense, February 8, 1996, http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=40516.
3. Michael R. Thirtle, Robert Johnson, and John Birkler, The Predator ACTD: A Case Study for Transition Planning to the Formal Acquisition Process (Washington, DC: Rand, 1997), 24–25.
4. Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2005), 529.
5. Ibid.
6. Norman Polmar, The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005), 479.
7. Yenne, Birds of Prey, 43.
8. Peter Singer, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 33.
9. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), 189–90.
10. David Ensor, “Drone May Have Spotted Bin Laden in 2000,” CNN, March 17, 2004, http://articles.cnn.com/2004-03-17/world/predator.video_1_bin-senior-al-predator-drone-aircraft; George Tenet, Written Statement for the Record of the Director of Central Intelligence before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, March 24, 2004, 15, http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/tenet_statement.pdf.
11. Klaus Brinkbaumer and John Goetz, “Obama’s Shadowy Drone War,” Der Spiegel, October 12, 2010.
12. Ibid.
13. Walter Boyne, “How the Predator Grew Teeth,” Air Force Magazine 92, no. 7 (July 2009): 2–17.
14. Yenne, Birds of Prey, 45.
15. Ted Bridis, “Officials: U.S. Slow on Bin Laden Drones,” Associated Press, June 24, 2003.
16. Barton Gellman, “A Strategy’s Cautious Evolution,” Washington Post, January 20, 2002.
17. “Officials: U.S. Missed Chance to Kill Bin Laden,” Associated Press, June 23, 2003.
18. Ibid.
19. Scott Shane, “CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan,” New York Times, December 3, 2009.
20. Coll, Ghost Wars, 581.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, 9/11 Commission Report, chap. 6, 210–14, for a discussion of this debate.
24. George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 143.
25. Mayer, “Predator War.”
26. Avery Plaw, Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), 2, 117, 119–20, 210.
27. “Officials: U.S. Missed Chance.”
28. Singer, Wired for War, 35.
4. OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
1. Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 23.
2. Bob Woodward and Dan Baltz, “Combating Terrorism: ‘It Starts Today,’” Washington Post, February 1, 2002.
3. “Bring Me the Head of Bin Laden,” BBC News, May 4, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4511943.stm.
4. “The Yemen Strike: The War on Terror Goes Global,” Chicago Tribune, November 24, 2002.
5. Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign against Al Qaeda (New York: Times Books, 2011), 4.