Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Author:Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo [Berntsen, Gary & Pezzullo, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, Military History, War, Intelligence & Espionage, Memoir
ISBN: 9780307341198
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2005-12-26T13:00:00+00:00

* Gary Schroen in his CIA-approved book First In refers to several meetings between myself (I’m called Gary 2 in the book) and Engineer Aref. He explains that Engineer Aref occupied Kabul on November 14, 2001, and assumed control of the remnants of the previous intelligence organization, renaming it the National Directorate of Security (NDS), which had a department that worked with the CIA up until 2004.

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Amir

“This I will say for the Afghan—he is a treacherous, evil brute when he wants to be, but while your friend he is a first-rate fellow. The point is you must judge to the second when he is going to cease to be friendly. There is seldom any warning.”

—George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

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Arab-American Amir and blond-haired, blue-eyed Davis, with his hair neatly parted and combed, wound their way slowly down the steep ravine road to the Shomali Plains for their first meeting with warlord ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦. Since members of Gary Schroen’s team had passed ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦, he was our ally for the time-being, which was of questionable merit since he had the reputation of changing sides when it suited him and playing one side against the other. We also knew he was close to Osama bin Laden and could possibly be of help.

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Despite his political ambitions, the elderly warlord had never been able to establish a substantial base of support within Afghanistan, in part because his strict Wahhanism clashed with the Hanafi system of beliefs accepted by most Afghans (including the Taliban). Both he and Ahmad Shah Massoud had been members of the Burhanuddin Rabbani government, which was pushed out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996.

I knew that ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ understood the dynamics of Afghan politics better than I ever would and had ambitions to be part of a post-Taliban government. I also knew that he maintained contacts with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and had talked Massoud into receiving the team of Arab journalists who had assassinated him.

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