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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... example, or a more restricted effort against al Qaeda with covert assistance and proxies—would have had limited effect on the group, and americans, along with allies around the world, were prepared for the sacrifice ofa major military ...
... example—but Karzai's name as the potential leader of this fractious group was always at the top of the list of presidential candidates. There is an inordinate amount of public scrutiny today about Karzai, and whether he is up to the ...
... examples of the CIa's strength: figure out what the mission is and deliver, quickly and flexibly, with a minimum of bureaucracy. Dobbins depended heavily on that mission flexibility, and we benefited greatly from agency help during ...
... . Iran has active security services with long experience providing weapons and training to guerrilla forces, with the lebanese hezbollah the most prominent example, followed by the more recent case of Shia allies 15 the 9/11 aftermath.
Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda Philip Mudd. example, followed by the more recent case of Shia allies in Iraq who have proven devastating foes of the american invasion. Ifwe cut them out of the Bonn process we would face the certainty that ...
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 |