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thinking about the “war on terror.” Thanks to Juliette Kayyem for introducing me to Ash Carter at Harvard’s Kennedy School and to Ash for hiring me to teach a class there in 2008. A particular thank you is due to teaching assistant Hope LeBeau without whom I could not have taught the class. Thanks also to all the students in that class. Also thanks to Sunil Khilnani, who hired me to teach at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins in 2003, and to the students I have taught there over the years.
    Thanks to Bruce Hoffman for involving me in his scholarly journal,
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
and for our work together for the National Security Preparedness Group, and to its co-chairs Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, and director Michael Allen. And thanks to Susan Glasser, Blake Hounshell, and Rebecca Frankel of
Foreign Policy
for their collaboration on the AfPak Channel. And thanks to Katherine Tiedemann for her key work on that project. Thanks also to Marin Strmecki of the Smith Richardson foundation, Nancy Chang of the Open Society Institute, and Barmak Pazhwak of the United States Institute of Peace for their funding of our counterterrorism work at the New America Foundation.
    Thanks to Chris Clifford of Keppler Speakers, Clark Forcey, and Steve Sadicario of NS Bienstock for their advice and help over the years. Thanks also to Shaun Waterman, Eason Jordan, Walter Purdy, Gregory Saathoff, Brent Stirton, Tim Hetherington, Scott Wallace, Richard Parry, Gina Bennett, George P. Luczko, Oubai Shahbandar, Thomas W. Collins, and Erroll Southers.
    Thanks to Martha Levin and Dominick Anfuso of Free Press for commissioning and publishing my work since 1999. The contract for this book was signed in 2004. Martha and Dominick have waited patiently since then for the appearance of this book. In between came another book,
The Osama bin Laden I Know
, which mushroomed into a much larger project than was initially conceived. Thanks to Dominick, who edited both books and had a number of valuable ideas about how this book should be shaped. Maura O’Brien, Dominick’s assistant, was a great help. Thanks to Carol de Onís for overseeing the complicated copy edit, Tom Pitoniak for his excellent work on that copy edit, Elisa Rivlin for her legal review, Carisa Hays for her always sage advice, and Jill Siegel. Thanks also to Gene Thorp for the handsome maps and to Keith Sinzinger.
    My agent Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit has been a joy to work with since 2001, both as a friend and as an intellectual sounding board. Also at Janklow, thanks to Svetlana Katz.
    Thanks to my family: Tom Bergen—who died before he could read this—Sarah Bergen, Katherine Bergen, and Con Coughlin—in whose house some of this book was written—Margaret Bergen and the McCanns: Charlotte (who helped to organize some of my research), Isabel and Brendan. Thanks also to all the Mabile family: Clebert and Alberta Mabile; Donnavan, Denise, Ahsly, Mia, and Reese Mabile; Heidi, Clay, Andrew, and Bella Gould—in whose house I wrote some of this book—and Daphane, George, and Ian Takacs.
    Above all, thanks to my wife, Tresha Mabile. I apologize for all the missed weekends and vacations and promise to make it up. Thanks for reading this book many times over and constantly steering me away from the trivial to focus on the important, as you have done in the widest sense possible in all spheres of life. This book is dedicated to you with admiration and with love.

About the Author
 
    Peter Bergen is the author of
Holy War, Inc.
, which has been translated into eighteen languages, and
The Osama bin Laden I Know
. They were both named among the best non-fiction books of the year by
The Washington Post
and documentaries based on the books were both nominated for Emmys. Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation and New York University’s Center on Law & Security. He is a contributing editor at
The New