The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps (42 page)

10.
Robert Marquand and Peter Ford, “A New Doctrine and a Scud Bust,”
Christian Science Monitor,
December 12, 2002, http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1212/p01s03-woap.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

11.
Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.

12.
CBSNews.com, “Hezbollah: ‘A-Team of Terrorists,’” April 18, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/printable550000.shtml (accessed December 3, 2006).

13.
Ibid.

14.
Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence, “Iran and Syria as Strategic Support for Palestinian Terrorism,” September 30, 2002, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/9/Iran%20and%20Syria%20as%20 Strategic%20Support%20for%20Palestinia (accessed December 3, 2006).

15.
DEBKA
file
, “Tehran Plots Second Anti-U.S. War Front Deploying Syria, Hizballah, Palestinians,” September 3, 2002, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=167 (accessed December 3, 2006).

16.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Hizbullah Attacks Along Israel’s Northern Border May 2000–June 2006,” July 12, 2006, http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published (accessed December 3, 2006).

17.
Guy Dinmore, “Iraqi Opposition Leaders Meet in Tehran,” IranReporter.com, December 9, 2002, http://www.iranreporter.com/story.asp?id=407 (accessed December 3, 2006).

18.
Yossef Bodansky,
The Secret History of the Iraq War
(New York: Regan Books, 2004), 142.

19.
Ibid.

20.
Mark Hosenball, “Intelligence: A Double Game,”
Newsweek,
May 10, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4881157/ (accessed December 3, 2006).

21.
John Diamond, “Israel Reportedly Helping With U.S. War Preparation,”
USA Today,
November 3, 2002, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-11-03-israel-usat_x.htm (accessed December 2006).

22.
DEBKA
file
, “Arafat’s New Terror Weapon: Exploding Toy Planes,” January 14, 2003, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=239 (accessed December 3, 2006).

23.
WorldTribune.com, “Israel Gets the Word: Won’t Fight in Iraq War,” December 22, 2002, http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2002/ss_israel_12_20.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

24.
David Rudge, “North on Alert After Car Bomb, Hizbullah Attack,”
Jerusalem Post
, January 22, 2003, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/279406881.html?dids=279406881:279406881&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS: FT&date=Jan+22%2C+2003&author=DAVID+RUDGE&pub=Jerusalem+ Post&desc=North+on+alert+after+car+bomb%2C+Hizbullah+attack.

25.
Milton Viorst, “The Wisdom of Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario,”
New York Times
, September 12, 2002, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50C1FF739550C718DDDA00894DA404482 (accessed December 3, 2006).

26.
Associated Press, “Text of Bush Speech on Iraq: President Gives Saddam Hussein a 48-Hour Deadline,”
CBS News Online,
March 17, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/17/iraq/main544377.shtml (accessed: October 31, 2006).

C
HAPTER
F
IVE:
T
HE
R
EAL
B
ATTLE FOR
I
RAQ
B
EGINS

1.
Chris Hamilton, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006.

2.
Dani Yatom, personal interview with Mike Evans, July 23, 2006.

3.
World Tribune,
“Hussein Given Safe Haven in Belarus?” April 25, 2003, as quoted by Truth Seeker, http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=729 (accessed December 3, 2006).

4.
The Online NewsHour, “Officials Investigate Shooting Attack on Russian Convoy,” April 7, 2003, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/convoy.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

5.
Air Force Association special report, “Gulf War II: Air and Space Power Led the Way,” (Arlington, VA: Aerospace Education Foundation, 2003), 20, viewed at http://www.afa.org/media/reports/GulfWar.pdf (accessed February 22, 2007).

6.
Steven Stalinsky, “Leading Egyptian Islamic Clerics on Jihad Against U.S. Troops in Iraq: March–August 2003,” Middle East Media Research Institute, Inquiry and Analysis series, August 14, 2003, no. 145, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA14503 (accessed December 6, 2006).

7.
Bodansky,
The Secret History of the Iraq War,
250.

8.
Nazila Fathi, “Aftereffects: Tehran; Iran Opposes U.S. Accord With Fighters Based in Iraq,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2003, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50D14FF3C580C718CDDAC0894DB404482.

9.
Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest, “U.S. Planners Surprised by Strength of Iraqi Shiites,”
Washington Post,
April 23, 2003, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17886-2003Apr22?language=printer (accessed January 26, 2007).

10.
WashingtonPost.com,
“Administration Comments on Saddam Hussein and the Sept.11 Attacks,” May 1, 2003, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/9-11_saddam_quotes.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

11.
Kathy Gannon, “Alleged Bin Laden Tape Calls for Jihad,”
CBS News
, April 8, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/11/attack/main540168.shtml (accessed December 6, 2006).

12.
Douglas Farah and Dana Priest, “Bin Laden Son Plays Key Role in Al Qaeda,”
Washington Post
, October 14, 2003, A1.

13.
IslamistWatch.org, “Al Qaeda Communique,” attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri, on or about May 20, 2003, http://www.islamistwatch.org/texts/comms/zawahiri05-20-03.html/ (accessed March 1, 2007).

14.
Washington Post,
“U.S. Soldiers, Civilians Held Overnight by Iranians,” June 3, 2003, A18.

15.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, “Core Principles for a Free Iraq,”
Opinion Journal,
from
Wall Street Journal
editorial page, May 27, 2003, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003545 (accessed January 29, 2007).

16.
The White House, “President Bush, Prime Minister Blair Hold Press Availability,” news release, March 27, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030327-3.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

17.
Ibid.

18.
Uzi Landau, “A Map to National Disaster,”
Ha’aretz,
April 11, 2003, as quoted by Tom Gross, “The Road Map Is a Huge Prize for Terror,” Mideast Dispatch Archive, April 24, 2003, http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000611.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

19.
Harry de Quetteville, “Will Iraqis Stand By and Watch Their Country Be Hijacked, Too?”
Telegraph
(UK), online version, December 31, 2003, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/12/31/do3101.xml (accessed December 17, 2006).

C
HAPTER
S
IX:
T
HE
W
ORLD
W
AR
A
GAINST
T
ERRORISM

1.
Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.

2.
Associated Press, “Al-Qaida in Iraq: 4,000 Foreign Fighters Killed: Attacked Urged During Ramadan in Tape Purportedly From Group’s Leader,” MSNBC.com, September 28, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15044435/ (accessed December 1, 2006).

3.
Bodansky,
The Secret History of the Iraq War,
9.

4.
Con Coughlin, “Saddam Killed Abu Nidal Over al-Qa’eda Row,”
Telegraph
(UK), online version, August 25, 2002, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/25/wnidal25.xml (accessed January 26, 2007); also, see Bodansky,
The Secret History of the Iraq War,
14–15.

5.
Michael R. Gordon, “After the War: Falluja; U.S. Troops Put on a Show of Military Force in a Center of Hard-Core Resistance,”
New York Times
, June 8, 2003, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res= F30A13FB3F5D0C7B8CDDAF0894DB404482 (accessed December 12, 2006).

6.
Ellen Knickmeyer and Omar Fekeiki, “Iraqi Shiite Cleric Pledges to Defend Iran: Sadr, With Powerful Militia, Vows to Respond to Attack by West on Neighbor,”
WashingtonPost.com
, January 24, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301701.html (accessed January 26, 2007); GlobalSecurity.org, “Al-Mahdi Army/Active Religious Seminary/Al-Sadr’s Group,” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-Sadr.htm (accessed January 26, 2007); GlobalSecurity.org, “Muqtada al-Sadr,” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-Sadr.htm (accessed January 26, 2007); and Bryan Bender, “US Believes Iran Is Aiding Iraqi Militias,”
Boston Globe,
April 9, 2004, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/09/us_believes_iran_is_aiding_iraqi_militias/ (accessed January 26, 2007).

7.
Charles Nash, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix F.

8.
Jane Arraf, “Iraq Insurgents’ Bombmaking Gets More Lethal,”
NBC News
, December 8, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16110075/ (accessed December 12, 2006).

9.
James Woolsey, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix D.

10.
Liz Neisloss and Matthew Chance, “UN: Sanctions Loom, Iran Keeps Enriching,”
CNN.com,
August 31, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/31/iran.deadline/index.html (accessed November 1, 2006).

11.
Nasser Karimi, “Ahmadinejad: Iran’s Nuke Capability Up,” Breitbart.com, October 23, 2006, http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/23/D8KUD2EG2.html (accessed November 1, 2006).

12.
Nasser Karimi, “Iran Doubles Nuke Enrichment Capacity,”
ABC News International
, October 27, 2006, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear (accessed November 2, 2006).

13.
BBCNews.com,
“Bush Condemns Iran Nuclear Move,” October 27, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6092540.stm (accessed November 2, 2006).

14.
Ehud Olmert, interview on
CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
, May 21, 2006, online transcript, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/21/le.01.html (accessed December 17, 2006).

15.
BBCNews.com,
“Iran Bomb ‘Within Next 10 Years,’” June 2, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5039956.stm (accessed November 2, 2006).

16.
Wikipedia.org, s.v. “1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut_barracks_bombing (accessed November 12, 2006).

17.
Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.

18.
Walid Shoebat, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 26, 2006.

19.
Hyscience.com, “Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi,” May 5, 2005, http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/05/ahmadinejad_and.php (accessed December 14, 2006).

20.
Moshe Ya’alon, personal interview with Mike Evans, June 2006.

C
HAPTER
S
EVEN:
F
UMBLING
O
UR
A
LLY
, I
RAN

1.
Gerald Warner, “High Time for Dubya to Take Hard Line With the Nuclear Mullahs,”
Scotland on Sunday
, June 19, 2005, http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=674332005 (accessed January 24, 2007).

2.
Gary Sick,
All Fall Down
(Lincoln, NE: Author’s Guild, 2001), 193–194.

3.
University of Tehran Web site, “UT Overview,” http://www.ut.c.ir/en/main-links/overview.htm (accessed December 8, 2006).