The Story (57 page)

Hamilton, Lee,
19
,
311

Hamza, Khidhir Abdul Abas,
157
,
159

Handelman, Stephen,
338
n1

Hannah, John P.,
341
n1

Harb, Sheikh Ragheb,
71

Harlow, Bill,
215
,
304

Harvey, Derek,
314
–15

Harvey, Frank,
168
,
343
n11

Hashim, Ahmad,
124

Hashimi, Tariq al-,
28

Hatfill, Steve,
342
n4

Hedge, Chris,
207

Helms, Laili,
141
–44

Hersh, Seymour,
56

Hezbollah,
78
,
128
,
149

Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq
(Duelfer),
250

Hijazi, Ihsan,
69
,
70
,
73
,
78

Hikmat, Fouad,
20

Hiltermann, Joost,
16

Hindawi, Nissar,
203

Hogan, Thomas F.,
241
,
251
,
255
,
258
,
264
,
271
,
272
,
279
–80,
288

Hoge, Warren,
106

Holbrooke, Richard,
61
,
336
n1

Holocaust,
88
–91,
337
n6

Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development,
303
,
304

Horrock, Nick,
55
–56

Huffington, Arianna,
267
–68,
286
,
351
n4

Huffington Post,
267

Hurt, Harry, III,
261

Husayni, Fadil Abbas al-,
180
–84,
190
,
230
,
235
–37,
344
n5,
349
n6

Hussein, King of Jordan

Miller and,
84

Saddam and,
103
,
154

Ibrahim, Saad Eddin,
77

Indian Springs, Nevada,
31

Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,
243
,
263
,
351
n1

Iran

American hostages in,
5
–6

biological weapons sought by,
123
,
124
,
197

Islamic Jihad and,
67

Lebanon and,
71
–72,
336
n3

population of,
5

revolutionary government,
5

Revolutionary Guard,
71

Saddam Hussein and,
3
–4

strengthening of,
27

terrorists backed by,
73
,
108

terrorist training by,
76
,
78

WMD programs,
124
–25

Iran-Iraq War

cost to Iraq,
102

Miller covers,
5

Saudi funding,
13

US position of “realist” foreign policy,
5
–6

Iraq.
See also
Iraq War; Saddam Hussein

Abu Ghraib prison,
178

Al Hakam (main germ production facility),
119
,
120

Al Qaeda and,
18
,
27
,
181
,
210

Al Qaim,
219

American abandonment of Shiites in,
16
–17

Arab nationalism and,
5

Ba'ath Party,
5
,
15
,
28

biological weapons,
2
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
133
,
197
–98,
338
n2

Chalabi and,
154
–58

chemical weapons,
xii
,
2
,
6
,
26
,
178
,
179
,
236
,
344
n4

Clinton air strikes against,
26
,
132
,
133
–34

democracy in, goal of,
xiii

Erbil,
174
–75

fate of, US withdrawal and,
23
,
25
–26,
28

ISIS in,
28

Kurds in,
8
,
15
–17,
19
,
22
,
23
–25,
26
,
28
,
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,
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,
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,
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–75,
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,
332
n15,
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n16,
333
–34n22,
334
n24

Lake Habbaniyah,
21

Miller in Baghdad, detention by authorities in 1985,
8
–11

Miller in Baghdad, hotel under fire in 1985,
6
–7

Miller's first visit in 1976,
4

Mukhabarat (secret police),
9
,
157

no-fly zones established,
16
–17,
23
–24

nuclear program,
xii
,
2
,
157
–58,
159

oil resources,
26

Ramadi,
1
,
17
–18,
19
–20,
28

recovery of secret documents from in 1993,
15

Shia of,
8
,
16
,
18
,
27
,
28

Sunnis in,
2
,
18
,
19
,
28
,
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n11

UN inspectors in,
133

US Security Agreement and,
27
–28

WMD and,
119
,
133
–34,
155
–56,
159
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
211
,
215
,
242
,
243
,
283
,
307
,
342
n6,
347
–48n17,
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n16

Iraqi National Congress (INC),
155
,
156
,
159
,
161
,
208

Baghdad headquarters,
190
,
232
,
233

CIA and,
175
,
213

defectors and,
249

Defense Department and,
190

Erbil meeting,
174
–75

media information and,
232

US military and,
189
,
190

Iraqi Officers Movement,
213

Iraq Liberation Act (1998),
156

Iraq War,
xii
.
See also
US Army

Abu Ghraib prison,
26

Abu Mahal tribe, Al Qaim and,
332
n17

American casualties,
17
,
18
,
25

American misspending in,
22

Anbar Awakening (Sahawa al-Anbar),
18
–19,
21
,
27
,
332
n17,
333
n18

Anbar Province,
1
–2,
17
–22,
28
,
332
n17

Basra, search for WMD at,
3

Bayji, search for WMD at,
3

Britain and,
168
,
195
–96,
203

Bush administration and decision for invasion,
17
,
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,
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,
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,
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–66,
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,
169
,
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,
272
,
282
,
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,
291
,
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,
322
,
342
n6

Camp Ramadi,
1
,
2

CFLCC (Coalition Forces Land Component Command),
178

Congressional support,
166
,
167
,
210
,
284
,
342
n6,
343
n11

embedded reporters in,
174
,
353
–54n7

Fallujah,
28

IED (improvised explosive device),
18

Iraqi allies in,
18
–19,
332
n17

Iraqi casualties,
25

media faulted for “warmongering,”
xiii
,
xiv
,
188
–90,
199
–202,
205
–23,
225
–26,
229
–31

Miller embedded with the
75
th XTF,
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,
1
–3,
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–84,
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,
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,
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–91,
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–202,
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,
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–33,
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,
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–44n1,
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–54n7

Miller's concerns about,
194
–95

Miller's list of story ideas and,
194

MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) transport,
18

neocons and,
154
,
167
,
168

opponents of,
19
,
168
,
284
,
311
,
313
,
343
n12,
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n15

“realists” and,
167

regime “red line” Al Kut,
178

“the surge,”
xiii
,
19
,
25
,
27
,
311
,
313
–15,
333
n18,
358
n11

undermining of faith in the press and,
323

US costs,
25

US misspending in,
22
,
333
n20

US mistakes,
22
,
27

US successes in,
25
–26

US withdrawal,
xiii
,
1
–2,
322

WMD aluminum tubes intelligence,
212
–20,
348
n18,
349
–50n7

WMD attack concerns,
178
–79

WMD intelligence failures,
217
,
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WMD mobile biolabs,
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,
209
,
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n8

WMD search,
xi
–xii,
xiii
,
1
–3,
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–84,
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,
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,
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,
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–4,
210
–11,
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,
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–46n10,
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n7,
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n8,
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n14

ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham),
28
,
322
,
323

Islamic Group,
149

Islamic Jihad,
66
–67,
68
,
73
,
75
,
149

Islamic militancy.
See also
Al Qaeda;
specific acts of terror; specific countries

Bush war on terror and,
149

Dar al Islam
(Abode of Islam),
71

funding of,
108
–11,
136

goals of,
77

God Has Ninety-nine Names
(Miller) and,
336
n4

Iran and,
76

journalist safety and,
73
–74

Miller interviews Massoud and jihadists in 2000,
139
–40

Miller's first interview with an Islamic militant in 1983,
71

Miller's
Times
front page analysis of, in 1983,
76
–77

oil and,
77

spread of,
322

surge in, 1980s,
74

terrorism against the West, start in Lebanon,
69

terrorist training by,
140

US HUMINT lacking on,
78
–79

war against America,
79
,
82
,
139
,
146

WMD threat from,
132

Israel

“agenda for peace” with Jordan,
111

Egypt and,
67

Gulf War and,
107

Hamas and,
107
–8

Kurdistan and,
24

Lebanon occupation,
67
,
69
–70,
72
–73

Miller visits in 1972,
45
,
335
n5

Oslo Accords,
107
,
111
–12

Saddam Hussein and,
3
–4

Shiite animosity toward,
71

Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency),
108

Ivins, Bruce,
342
n4

Jagger, Mick,
45

Jeffress, William,
308

Jehl, Doug,
180
,
337
n2

Jemaah Islamiyah,
149

Jenkins, Brian,
74

Jennings, Peter,
111

Jervis, Robert,
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,
346
n2,
348
n18

Johnston, David,
152
,
207
,
234
–35,
347
n10

Jordan

“agenda for peace” with Israel,
111

Chalabi and,
154

Iran oil and,
103

Miller and Epstein visit to Petra in 1990,
103
–4

Miller's first visit in 1972,
45

Joseph, Robert,
213
,
216
,
217
–18,
222
,
344
n5

Jubeir, Adel al-,
13

“Judith Miller: Was She Really So Bad?” (Stanage),
317

Jungk, Robert,
32

Kaiser, Robert,
222

Kamel, Hussein,
119
–20

Karkhi, Baha'a al- (Ramadi police chief),
22

Kay, David,
222
,
237
,
345
n8,
348
–49n2

Kazakhstan,
115

Semipalatinsk nuclear test site,
126

smallpox outbreak in,
198