Woolsey, R. James. "World War IV." Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 5-12.Materials arranged chronologically.
Woolsey, R. James. "World War IV." Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 5-12.
The Cold War having been World War III, the war on terrorism is World War IV. The former DCI looks at the enemy, the war at home, and the war abroad. He concludes that we will need to convince the peoples of those countries that are not democracies, particularly in the Middle East, that this is not a war of "us against them," but a war of "freedom against tyranny."
DeYoung, Karen, and Walter Pincus. "Satellite Images, Communications Intercepts and Defectors' Briefings." Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003 "relied heavily on sensitive U.S. intelligence -- satellite images, communications intercepts and defector interviews -- that officials ... agreed to release to make as compelling a case as possible."
Priest, Dana. "Telling Secrets: Not Just What, but How; Speech Is Revealing on Gathering Intelligence." Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2003, A23. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Never had the U.S. government disclosed as much sensitive, recent intelligence as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell did yesterday [5 February 2003] when he released surreptitiously intercepted calls between Iraqi officials and information supplied by Iraqi informants apparently close to Saddam Hussein. Beyond the extraordinary array of U.S. intelligence capabilities put on display for the U.N. Security Council -- signals intercepts, satellite imagery, reports from captives and in-country agents -- 10 foreign intelligence services, both European and Middle Eastern, agreed to allow the United States to disclose classified information they had collected on Iraq."
Tyler, Patrick E. "Intelligence Break Led U.S. to Tie Envoy Killing to Iraqi Qaeda Cell." New York Times, 6 Feb. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"An intelligence breakthrough in the last several weeks made it possible for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to set forth the first evidence of what he said was a well developed cell of Al Qaeda operating out of Baghdad that was responsible for the assassination of the American diplomat Laurence Foley last October."
Eggen, Dan. "Bush Aims to Blend Counterterrorism Efforts." Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2003, A16. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In an appearance at FBI headquarters on 14 February 2003, President George W. Bush announced plans "to place FBI and CIA counterterrorism operations under one roof.... Under the plan, the FBI's entire counterterrorism division would be moved into a secure building with the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center.... [T]he FBI would retain control over its counterterrorism division. [DCI] George J. Tenet ... would run both the counterterrorism and threat centers."
Shanker, Thom, and Eric Schmitt. "Firing Leaflets and Electrons, U.S. Wages Information War." New York Times, 24 Feb. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"[T]he military is starting an ambitious assault [on Iraq] using a growing arsenal of electronic and psychological weapons on the information battlefield. American cyber-warfare experts recently waged an e-mail assault, directed at Iraq's political, military and economic leadership, urging them to break with Saddam Hussein's government. A wave of calls has gone to the private cellphone numbers of specially selected officials inside Iraq, according to leaders at the Pentagon and in the regional Central Command.
"As of last week, more than eight million leaflets had been dropped over Iraq ... warning Iraqi antiaircraft missile operators that their bunkers will be destroyed if they track or fire at allied warplanes. In the same way, a blunt offer has gone to Iraqi ground troops: surrender and live.... Radio transmitters hauled aloft by Air Force Special Operations EC-130E planes are broadcasting directly to the Iraqi public in Arabic with programs that mimic the program styles of local radio stations and are more sophisticated than the clumsy preachings of previous wartime propaganda efforts."
Eggen, Dan. "GAO Criticizes System For Tracking Terrorists: 'Watch Lists' Are Called Incompatible." Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2003, A21. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
A General Accounting Office (GAO) report released on 30 April 2003 describes the government's system of keeping track of suspected terrorists as "disorganized and inefficient.... The GAO report found that the federal agencies that compile watch lists 'do not have a consistent and uniform approach to sharing watch lists,' and that much of the data are not provided to local and state law enforcement."
Byman, Daniel. "Scoring the War on Terrorism." National Interest 72 (Summer 2003): 75-85.
Shannon, Elaine, Timothy J. Burger, and Massimo Calabresi. "FBI Sets Up Shop in Yemen." Time, 9 Aug. 2003. [http://www.time.com]
The Yemeni government "has quietly allowed the FBI to open an office in its capital city, San'a." Along with the CIA and the U.S. military, the FBI "is urgently trying to disrupt efforts" by al-Qaeda fighters "to reconstitute command and control structures in parts of rural Yemen controlled by clans hostile to the government in San'a and sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden." [Clark comment: And the military and CIA cannot do this because they lack the FBI's experience overseas?]
Johnston, David, and Raymond Bonner. "Suspect in Indonesia Bombings Is Captured in Asia." New York Times, 15 Aug. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to Indonesian and U.S. officials, Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian believed to be the mastermind behind the Bali bombings, was captured on 19 August 2003 "in Thailand in an operation" by the CIA. Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, was taken by U.S. authorities "to an undisclosed location in another country where he is being questioned."
Nakashima, Ellen, and Alan Sipress. "Al Qaeda Figure Seized in Thailand: Local Units, CIA Cooperated to Nab Top Asian Terror Suspect." Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Capture in Thailand of Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin.
Jehl, Dounglas. "Two C.I.A. Operatives Killed in an Ambush in Afghanistan." New York Times, 29 Oct. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The CIA announced on 28 October 2003 that William Carlson and Christopher Glenn Mueller, former Special Forces officers and CIA contract employees, were killed near Shkin, in southeastern Afghanistan, on 25 October 2003.
Pincus, Walter. "2 CIA Employees Killed in Ambush: Ex-Special Forces Officers Worked in Eastern Afghanistan." Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2003, A20. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
William Carlson and Christopher Glenn Mueller, "former Special Forces officers working as contract employees in counterterrorism for the CIA[,] were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan" on 25 October 2003. "The two were involved in what became a six-hour firefight between Taliban rebels and U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces."
Farah, Douglas, and Dan Eggen. "Joint Intelligence Center Is Urged: Rep. Wolf Says Information Should Be Shared Globally to Fight Terror." Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2003, A25. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In a letter to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the FBI budget, has asked that "the United States to take the lead in establishing a joint intelligence center modeled on NATO to share information on terrorist money and movements."
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