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Dirty wars : the world is a battlefield

Scahill, Jeremy. (Author).
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Special operations (Military science) > United States > History > 21st century.
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  • ISBN: 156858671X
  • ISBN: 9781568586717
  • Physical Description xxiv, 642 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher New York : Nation Books, [2013]

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Dirty Wars : The World Is a Battlefield

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
A Note to the Readerp. xxiii
Prologuep. 1
1"There Was Concern...That We Not Create an American Hit List": Washington, DC, 2001-2002p. 3
2Anwar Awlaki: An American Story: The United States and Yemen, 1971-2002p. 31
3Find, Fix, Finish: The Rise of JSOC: Washington, DC, 1979-2001p. 48
4The Boss: Ali Abdullah Saleh: Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001p. 61
5The Enigma of Anwar Awlaki: The United Kingdom, the United States And Yemen, 2002-2003p. 67
6"We're in a New Kind of War": Djibouti, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2002p. 75
7Special Plans: Washington, DC, 2002p. 81
8Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape: Washington, DC, 2002-2003p. 85
9The Troublemaker: Stanley McChrystal: The United States, 1974-2003; Iraq, 2003p. 102
10"Their Intention and Our Intention Is the Same": Somalia, 1993-2004p. 118
11"A Defeated Enemy Is Not a Vanquished One": Yemen, 2003-2006p. 130
12"Never Trust a Nonbeliever": The United Kingdom, 2003p. 134
13"You Don't Have to Prove to Anyone That You Did Right": Iraq, 2003-2005p. 138
14"No Blood, No Foul": Iraq, 2003-2004p. 147
15The Death Star: Iraq, 2004p. 162
16"The Best Technology, the Best Weapons, the Best People-and Plenty of Money to Burn": Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, 2003-2006p. 167
17"A Lot of It Was of Questionable Legality": Source: "Hunter"p. 180
18The Imprisonment of Anwar Awlaki: Yemen, 2004-2007p. 184
19"America Knows War. They Are War Masters.": Somalia, 2004-2006p. 191
20Prison Break: Yemen, 2006p. 210
21Hot Pursuit: Pakistan, 2006-2008p. 215
22"Every Step Taken by the US Benefited al Shabab": Somalia, 2007-2009p. 219
23"If Your Son Does Not Come to Us, He Will Be Killed by the Americans": Yemen, 2007-2009p. 230
24"Obama Is Set to Continue the Course Set by Bush": United States, 2002-2008p. 244
25Obama's Signature Strikes: Pakistan And Washington, DC, 2009p. 248
26Special Ops Want to "Own This Shit Like They Did in Central America in the '80s": Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009p. 254
27Suicide or Martyrdom?: Yemen, 2009p. 264
28Obama Embraces JSOC: Somalia, Early 2009p. 270
29"Let JSOC Off the Leash": Saudi Arabia, Washington, DC, And Yemen, Late 2009p. 278
30Samir Khan: An Unlikely Foot Soldier: The United States and Yemen, 2001-2009p. 285
31Blowback in Somalia: Somalia And Washington, DC, 2009p. 294
32"If They Kill Innocent Children and Call Them al Qaeda, Then We Are All al Qacda": Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2009p. 303
33"The Americans Really Wanted to Kill Anwar": Yemen, Late 2009-Early 2010p. 314
34"Mr. Barack Obama...I Hope That You Reconsider Your Order to Kill...My Son": Washington, DC, and Yemen, Early 2010p. 325
35One Night in Gardez: Washington, DC, 2008-2010; Afghanistan, 2009-2010p. 328
36The Year of the Drone: Yemen and The United States, 2010p. 350
37Driving Anwar Awlaki to Hell: Yemen, 2010p. 356
38The CIA's Dating Service: Denmark and Yemen, 2010p. 364
39"The Auction of the Assassin": Washington, DC, 2010p. 367
40"Martyrdom Is Why We Came Here, My Brother": Yemen, 2009-2010p. 375
41The Persecution of Abdulelah Haider Shaye: Yemen, Summer 2010p. 382
42The President Can Write His Own Rules: Washington, DC, and Yemen, Late 2010p. 386
43Al Qaeda's "Foothold in Somalia Has Probably Been Facilitated": Somalia, 2010p. 393
44"Anwar Awlaki...Definitely Has a Missile in His Future": Yemen, 2011p. 398
45The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act I Pakistan, 2011p. 103
46The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act II Pakistan, 2011p. 414
47The Tsunami of Change: Austria And Yemen, 2011p. 430
48The Fortress in Abbottabad: Washington, DC, 2010-2011; Pakistan, 2011p. 434
49"We Got Him. We Got Him.": Pakistan, 2011p. 444
50"Now They're After My Son": Somalia, Washington, DC, And Yemen, 2011p. 451
51"It Was Cold-Blooded": Pakistan, 2011p. 458
52"The US Sees al Qaeda as Terrorism, and We Consider the Drones Terrorism": Yemen, Late 2011p. 460
53The Pink House: Washington, DC, and Somalia, 2011p. 469
54"Total Savagery Throughout the Country": Somalia, 2011p. 487
55Abdulrahman Vanishes: Yemen, 2011p. 495
56Hellfire: Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011p. 498
57Paying for the Sins of the Father: Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011p. 507
Epilogue: Perpetual Warp. 513
Acknowledgmentsp. 523
Acronyms And Abbreviationsp. 259
Notesp. 531
Indexp. 615
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