Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al QaedaOn September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government's effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA's rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd's role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign. |
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... Pashtun ethnic group of southern and eastern afghanistan. everywhere we went, people talked about the same man: his name, hamid Karzai, cropped up in every capital. It was like manna from heaven. we had only weeks to assess and then ...
... Pashtun tribals. and Karzai, viewed by the northerners as a southerner. and not only leadership rivalries from Day One, with both sides coming out of decades of mistrust and war, but also questions about how to divide the “power ...
... Pashtun, arrayed across the south and southeast. To forge a new sense of nationality, Dobbins and the U.S. government pressed for cooperation among the ethnic factions, a government under Karzai that would be representative of different ...
... Pashtuns, who had lived under Taliban rule for halfa decade. without a census that was even close to current or accurate, parceling out posts based on population was out of the question, and probably a potentially dangerous precedent ...
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Contents
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2 A Return to Langley | 27 |
Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda | 70 |
The Intelligence Problem of Iraq | 90 |
Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center | 104 |
6 The Years of Threat | 135 |
The FBI Calls | 145 |
Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security | 191 |
Index | 199 |