George John Tenet is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency,as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to 2015. Within SAC there are two separate groups:SAC/SOG for tactical paramilitary operations and SAC/PAG for covert political action.
Joseph Cofer Black is an American former CIA officer who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding the September 11th attacks,and was later appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department by President George W. Bush,serving until his resignation in 2004. Prior to his roles combatting terrorism,Black served across the globe in a variety of roles with the Directorate of Operations at the CIA.
The Inter-Services Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering,processing,and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant to Pakistan's national security. As one of the principal members of the Pakistani intelligence community,the ISI reports to its Director-General and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the Pakistani government.
Gary Charles Schroen was an American Central Intelligence Agency field officer who was in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan in September 2001 to topple the Taliban regime and to destroy Al-Qaeda.
In late 2001,the United States and its close allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban government. The invasion's aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda,which had executed the September 11 attacks,and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban government from power. The United Kingdom was a key ally of the United States,offering support for military action from the start of invasion preparations. The invasion came after the Afghan Civil War's 1996–2001 phase between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance groups,resulting in the Taliban controlling 80% of the country by 2001. The invasion became the first phase of the 20-year-long War in Afghanistan and marked the beginning of the American War on Terror.
The Bin Laden Issue Station,also known as Alec Station,was a standalone unit of the Central Intelligence Agency in operation from 1996 to 2005 dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden and his associates,both before and after the 9/11 attacks. It was headed initially by CIA analyst Michael Scheuer and later by Richard Blee and others.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Mission Center forCounterterrorism was established in 1986,and is a division of the CIA's Directorate of Operations. It was renamed during an agency restructuring in 2015,and is distinct from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),which is a separate entity. The most recent publicly known Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Mission Center was Chris Wood who led the organization from 2015 to 2017.
After the Central Intelligence Agency lost its role as the coordinator of the entire Intelligence Community (IC),special coordinating structures were created by each president to fit his administrative style and the perceived level of threat from terrorists during his term.
The Afghanistan conflict began in 1978 and has coincided with several notable operations by the United States (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The first operation,code-named Operation Cyclone,began in mid-1979,during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. It financed and eventually supplied weapons to the anti-communist mujahideen guerrillas in Afghanistan following an April 1978 coup by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and throughout the nearly ten-year military occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). Carter's successor,Ronald Reagan,supported an expansion of the Reagan Doctrine,which aided the mujahideen along with several other anti-Soviet resistance movements around the world.
The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist guerrilla insurgent group,built around the family of the same name,that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s,and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government in the 21st century. It is considered to be a "semi-autonomous" offshoot of the Taliban. It has been most active in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in north-west Pakistan.
Between 2004 and 2018,the United States government attacked thousands of targets in Northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division. Most of these attacks were on targets in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Northwest Pakistan. These strikes began during the administration of United States President George W. Bush,and increased substantially under his successor Barack Obama. Some in the media referred to the attacks as a "drone war". The George W. Bush administration officially denied the extent of its policy;in May 2013,the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time that four US citizens had been killed in the strikes. In December 2013,the National Assembly of Pakistan unanimously approved a resolution against US drone strikes in Pakistan,calling them a violation of "the charter of the United Nations,international laws and humanitarian norms."
The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30,2009. One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan. Seven American CIA officers and contractors,an officer of Jordan's intelligence service,and an Afghan working for the CIA were killed when al-Balawi detonated a bomb sewn into a vest he was wearing. Six other American CIA officers were wounded. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years.
Mohammed Atef was the military chief of al-Qaeda,and was considered one of Osama bin Laden's two deputies,the other being Ayman Al Zawahiri,although Atef's role in the organization was not well known by intelligence agencies for years. He was killed in a US airstrike in November 2001.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Afghanistan.
Events in the year 2017 in Afghanistan.
Michael D'Andrea is a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer who played an instrumental role in American counterterrorism efforts during the War on Terror. He served nine years as director of Counterterrorism Center (CTC),and held a major role in the manhunt for Osama bin Laden. His 42-year career has been described as among the most consequential in the recent history of the CIA,and he has been called the most lethal leader in the U.S. government for his tenure. He is widely credited with revolutionizing the CIA's terrorist-hunting efforts,and vastly expanding the program of targeted killings by drone strike used heavily against Al-Qaeda. "If he was a combatant commander,he would have been sitting in the gallery for the State of the Union,he would have had all the accolades,and then some,that David Petraeus ever had," said one former senior CIA official. "He ran that war."
Gregory W. Vogle is an American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the National Clandestine Service from January 29,2015 until August 2017. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross,the nation's highest intelligence award for valor,often described as a Medal of Honor equivalent,for his actions to defend Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his troops against an attack on their position by the Taliban in Tarinkot,Afghanistan.
Henry "Hank" A. Crumpton is a retired Central Intelligence Agency operations officer,in his 24 year career he was appointed deputy director of the Counterterrorism Center and head the CIA's National Resources Division,which focuses on operations in the United States. He played an instrumental role in the early days of the invasion of Afghanistan,leading CTC Special Operations paramilitary forces as some of the first people with boots on the ground in pursuit of the Taliban and al-Qaeda just weeks after 9/11. Gary Schroen's seven man Northern Alliance Liaison Team (NALT) forged alliances and established camp in the mountains,while Crumpton crafted a plan for a larger incursion alongside others like Greg Vogle and Chris Wood. He went on to be appointed by President George W. Bush as Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State with the rank of Ambassador-at-large on August 2,2005. He is an author and co-founder,co-Chairman,and co-CEO of the business intelligence firm Martin+Crumpton Group LLC.
Ayman al-Zawahiri,the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda,was killed by a United States drone strike on 31 July 2022 in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was the successor of Osama bin Laden,who was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. Al-Zawahiri,who had helped to plan the September 11 attacks against the U.S.,had gone into hiding following the attacks,and was located by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before his death. After receiving authorization from U.S. President Joe Biden to initiate the strike,the CIA fired two Hellfire missiles at the balcony of al-Zawahiri's house,killing him.
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