76. Ibid.
77. Yousuf Ali, “Most Bajaur Victims Were under 20,” News (Pakistan), November 5, 2006.
78. Ibid.
79. Christine Fair, The Militant Challenge in Pakistan (Washington, DC: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010), 125.
80. “Pakistan School Raid Sparks Anger.”
81. Dan Gillmor, “Suicide Blast Kills 42 Pakistani Soldiers,” Guardian, November 8, 2006.
82. “Pakistan Says Planes Used in Raid,” BBC News, January 19, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6280153.stm.
83. Bill Roggio, “The Pro-Osama Meeting in Bajaur,” Long War Journal, October 29, 2006, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2006/10/the_proosama_meeting.php.
84. Associated Press, “Missile Strike in Pakistan Kills 4,” Washington Post, April 27, 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042701056.html.
85. Griff Witte, “Blast Kills at Least 20 in Pakistan,” Washington Post, June 20, 2007.
86. Barbara Sude, Al-Qaeda Centraclass="underline" An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group Headquartered on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Policy Paper (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, February 25, 2010).
87. Schmitt and Shanker, Counterstrike, 100.
88. “Musharraf Vows War on Militants,” BBC News, July 12, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6896179.stm.
89. “Scores Killed in Pakistan Attacks,” BBC News, July 19, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6905808.stm.
90. Ismail Khan, “Missile Kills 5 in Northwest Pakistan: U.S. Denies Attack,” New York Times, November 3, 2007.
91. Katherine Hubbard, Strategic Concerns, Historical Ties Make Pakistan Unwilling to Take On Haqqani Network (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 3, 2010).
92. Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, “Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say,” New York Times, August 1, 2008.
93. Elizabeth Rubin, “In the Land of the Taliban,” New York Times, October 22, 2006.
94. “Mullah Akhtar Usmani Named Successor to Mullah Omar,” Rediff.com, November 19, 2001, http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/nov/19ny7.htm.
95. Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: The US and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (New York: Viking, 2008), 370.
6. THE DRONE WAR BEGINS
1. Greg Miller and Judie Tate, “CIA Focus Shifts to Killing Targets,” Washington Post, August 30, 2011.
2. Brian Glyn Williams, “Cheney Attack Reveals Taliban Suicide Bomber Targeting Patterns,” Terrorism Monitor 5, no. 4 (March 1, 2007): 2–5.
3. “A Strike against Al Qaeda,” Economist, February 1, 2008.
4. “Al Qaeda’s New Leadership,” Washington Post, September 8, 2007.
5. “Top Al Qaeda Commander Killed,” BBC News, February 1, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7220823.stm; Jon Boone and Jason Burke, “Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed in Afghanistan,” Guardian, January 31, 2008.
6. “Missile Strike Near Pakistan Border Kills 13, Injures 7,” Gulf News, February 28, 2008.
7. Ibid.; “Many Die in Pakistani Missile Strike,” Al Jazeera, February 28, 2008.
8. “16 Dead in Pakistan Missile Strike,” Agence France-Presse, March 16, 2008.
9. Candace Rondeux, “Airstrike Kills 18 in Pakistan,” Washington Post, March 17, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031600840.html.
10. Sanger, Inheritance, 235.
11. Schmitt and Shanker, Counterstrike, 119.
12. Mark Hosenball, “With a Quiet Blessing, U.S. Attacks on Al Qaeda Spike,” Newsweek, March 22, 2008.
13. David Sanger and Eric Schmitt, “Pakistan Shift Could Curtail Drone Strikes,” New York Times, February 22, 2008.
14. Sanger, Inheritance, 235.
15. David Cloud, “CIA Drones Have Broader List of Targets,” Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2010.
16. Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Julian Barnes, “US Tightens Drone Rules,” Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2011.
17. Sanger, Inheritance, 236.
18. Marcy Wheeler, “‘Pattern of Life’ Drone Strikes,” Empty Wheel (blog), May 6, 2010, http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/05/06/pattern-of-life-drone-strikes/.
19. Noah Shachtman, “No-Name Terrorists Now CIA Drone Targets,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, May 6, 2010, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05/no-name-terrorists-now-cia-drone-targets/.
20. Schmitt and Shanker, Counterstrike, 102–3.
21. “Claim Pakistan ‘Supports Taliban,’” BBC News, October 26, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15456858.
22. Matthew Aid, Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight against Terror (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), 108–9.
23. Jeremiah Gertler, US Unmanned Aerial Systems, CRS Report for Congress (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, January 3, 2012), 35.
24. “MQ-9 Reaper/Hunter Killer UAV,” Defense Update, July 2009, http://defense-update.com/products/p/predatorB.htm.
25. Tom Vanden Brook, “Faster, Deadlier Pilotless Plane Bound for Afghanistan,” USA Today, August 27, 2007.
26. “Reaper Scores Insurgent Kill in Afghanistan,” Air Force Times, October 29, 2007.
27. Anwarullah Khan, “12 Killed in Drone Attack on Damadola,” Dawn, May 14, 2008.
28. Jason Burke, “Al Qaeda Chief Dies in Missile Strike,” Guardian, June 1, 2008.
29. Zahid Hussain and Michael Evans, “US Airstrike Kills 11 Pakistani Soldiers in ‘Cowardly and Unprovoked Attacks,’” Times, June 12, 2008.
30. Bill Roggio, “Pakistani Leader Killed in March 2008 Predator Strike,” Long War Journal, May 19, 2008, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/05/pakistani_al_qaeda_l.php.
31. Declan Walsh, “US Bomb Kills Eleven Pakistani Troops,” Guardian, June 12, 2008.
32. “US Missile Strike Kills One in S Waziristan,” Daily Times, June 15, 2008.
33. “Al Qaeda Chemical Expert Killed,” BBC News, July 28, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7529419.stm.