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Prologue -- "There was concern ... that we not create an American hit list" : Washington, DC 2001-2002 -- Anwar Awlaki : an American story : the United States and Yemen, 1971-2002 -- Find, fix, finish : the rise of JSOC : Washington, 1979-2001 -- The Boss : Ali Abdullah Saleh : Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001 -- The enigma of Anwar Awlaki : the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yemen, 2002-2003 -- "We're in a new kind of war" : Djibouti, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2002 -- Special plans : Washington, DC, 2002 -- Survival, evasion, resistance, escape : Washington, DC, 2002-2003 -- The troublemaker : Stanley McChrystal : the United States, 1974-2003, Iraq 2003 -- "Their intention and our intention is the same" : Somalia, 1993-2004 -- "A defeated enemy is not a vanquished one" : Yemen, 2003-2006 -- "Never trust a nonbeliever" : United Kingdom, 2003 -- "You don't have to prove to anyone that you did right" : Iraq, 2003-2005 -- "No blood, no foul" : Iraq, 2003-2004 -- The Death Star : Iraq, 2004 -- "The best technology, the best weapons, the best people-- and plenty of money to burn" : Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, 2003-2006 -- "A lot of it was of questionable legality" : Source : "Hunter" -- The imprisonment of Anwar Awlaki : Yemen, 2004-2007 -- "America knows war. They are war masters" : Somalia, 2004-2006 -- Prison break : Yemen, 2006 -- Hot pursuit : Pakistan, 2006-2008 -- "Every step taken by the US benefited al Shabab" : Somalia, 2007-2009 -- "If your son does not come to us, he will be killed by the Americans" : Yemen, 2007-2009 -- "Obama is set to continue the course set by Bush" : United States, 2002-2008 -- Obama's signature strikes : Pakistan and Washington, DC, 2009 -- Special Ops want to "own this shit like they did in Central America in the '80s" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009 -- Suicide or martyrdom? : Yemen, 2009 -- Obama embraces JSOC : Somalia, early 2009 -- "Let JSOC off the leash" : Saudi Arabia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, late 2009 -- Samir Khan, an unlikely foot soldier : the United States and Yemen, 2001-2009 -- Blowback in Somalia : Somalia and Washington, DC, 2009 -- "If they kill innocent children and call them al Qaeda, then we are all al Qaeda" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009 -- "The Americans really wanted to kill Anwar" : Yemen, late 2009-early 2010 -- "Mr. Barack Obama ... I hope that you reconsider your order to kill ... my son" : Washington, DC, and Yemen, early 2010 -- One night in Gardez : Washington, DC, 2008-2010 ; Afghanistan, 2009-2010 -- The Year of the Drone : Yemen and the United States, 2010 -- Driving Anwar Awlaki to hell : Yemen, 2010 -- The CIA's dating service : Denmark and Yemen, 2010 -- "The auction of the assassin" : Washington, DC, 2010 -- "Martyrdom is why we came here, my brother" : Yemen, 2009-2010 -- The persecution of Abdulelah Haider Shaye : Yemen, summer 2010 -- The President can write his own rules : Washington, DC, and Yemen, late 2010 -- Al Qaeda's "foothold in Somalia has probably been facilitated" : Somalia, 2010 -- "Anwar Awlaki ... definitely has a missile in his future" : Yemen, 2011 -- The curious case of Raymond Davis : Act I : Pakistan, 2011 -- The curious case of Raymond Davis : Act II : Pakistan, 2011 -- The tsunami of change : Austria and Yemen, 2011 -- The fortress in Abbottabad : Washington, DC, 2010-2011 ; Pakistan, 2011 -- "We got him. We got him" : Pakistan, 2011 -- "Now they're after my son" : Somalia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 -- "It was cold-blooded" : Pakistan, 2011 -- "The US sees al Qaeda as terrorism, and we consider the drones terrorism" : Yemen, late 2011 -- The Pink House : Washington, DC, and Somalia, 2011 -- "Total savagery throughout the country" : Somalia, 2011 -- Abdulrahman vanishes : Yemen, 2011 -- Hellfire : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 -- Paying for the sins of the father : Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 -- Epilogue: Perpetual war. |