ENEMIES: A HISTORY OF THE FBI - GLOSSARY ~ (SPOILER THREAD)

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John Yoo:

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John Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. Between college and law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Yoo joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.

Professor Yoo has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Amsterdam, and he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento, Italy in 2006. He has received research fellowships from the University of California, Berkeley, the Olin Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Professor Yoo also has received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He has testified before the judiciary committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and has advised the State of California on constitutional issues.
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Abu Zabaydah:



Abu-Zubaydah was born 03/12/1971 in Saudi Arabia. He went to Afghanistan, probably not for the first time, in 1995 through Spain, where he met Imad Yarkas before arriving to Afgahnistan. In Afghanistan Abu-Zubaydah associated with Sheikh al-Liby , later the al Khalden training camp commander in Afghanistan.

Abu-Zubaydah became the chief logistic administrator and recruiter of al Qaeda when Osama Bin Laden arrived to Afghanistan in the end of 1996 and became no. 3 in Al Qaeda.

On 12/1999 Jordanian security services foiled a big terror attack destined to the millennium eve 12/31/1999, the JORDANIAN MILLENNIUM, after intercepting a phone call from Abu Zubaydah to the local Jordanian leader of the plot Khader Abu Hoshar. Therefore Abu Zubaydah was sentenced in 2002 to death in absentia in Jordan.

Abu Zubaydah was involved as the coordinator of most al Qaeda plots in the world and among other operations he coordinated also:

A. Ahmed Ressam who was arrested in Port Angeles when he arrived from Canada on 12/14/1999.
B. The foiled attack on USS The Sullivans in the port of Aden, Yemen, on the 01/03/2000 with a bomb-laden boat.
C. The foiled attack to blow up the US Paris Embassy, France on 11/2001.

After Mohammed Atef was killed in operation " Absolute Justice " in Afghanistan in 11/2001 Abu Zubaydah took over the military command of al Qaeda.

Abu Zubaydah managed to escape Afghanistan during operation " Absolute Justice " but was traced through his satellite phone and captured in Faisalabad, Southeast Pakistan on 03/28/2002 along with Alla Bin Ali Ahmed, Ali Abdullah Ahmed and others. Abu Zubaydah was critically wounded by the Pakistani police shooting but his life was saved by American doctors. He was extradited to USA and is today (01/2007) imprisoned in Guantanamo. Ali Abdullah Ahmed was transferred to Guantanamo where, on 06/10/2006, he committed suicide along with two other fellow Guantanamo inmates (see - Gitmo-Suicides)

Abu Zubaydah succeeded to deceive his interrogators in Guantanamo and to fabricate al Qaedas’ plots intended against USA causing several times false general terror alerts.
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Jose Padilla:



Jose Padilla was born on October 18, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He is also known as Muhajir Abdullah. He was sentenced in January 2008 to over 17 years in prison for conspiracy to kill people and fund overseas terrorism. In September 2011 the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the sentence imposed by a Miami federal judge was too lenient and sent the case back for a new sentencing hearing. Jose joined street gangs in Chicago and spent time in jail, where he converted to Islam. He was arrested in 2002, and held as a material witness on the 9-11 attacks upon returning from a trip that had taken him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. He's in prison at ADX Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado.

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James Comey:



On October 3, 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Jim Comey to serve as Deputy Attorney General, he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 9, 2003, and the President signed his commission on December 11, 2003. Prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Comey served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation. From 1996 through 2001, Mr. Comey served as Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Richmond Division of the United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Mr. Comey was educated at the College of William & Mary (B.S. with Honors 1982, Chemistry and Religion majors) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1985). After law school, he served as a law clerk for then-United States District Judge John M. Walker, Jr. in Manhattan, and worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in their New York Office. He next joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he worked from 1987 to 1993, eventually serving as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.

As United States Attorney, Mr. Comey oversaw numerous terrorism cases and supervised prosecutions of executives of WorldCom, Adelphia, and Imclone on fraud and securities-related charges. Mr. Comey also created a specialized unit devoted to prosecuting international drug cartels.

As an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, he handled the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing case, arising out of the June 1996 attack on a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia in which 19 Airmen were killed. He has personally investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including firearms, narcotics, major frauds, violent crime, public corruption, terrorism, and organized crime. In the Southern District of New York, he served as lead prosecutor in United States v. John Gambino et al., a six-month mafia racketeering and murder trial in 1993.

While in Richmond, Mr. Comey also served as an Adjunct Professor of law at the University of Richmond. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's office in Richmond in 1996, he was a partner at McGuireWoods, LLP specializing in criminal defense and commercial litigation.

Mr. Comey is married and has five children.
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Bernard Kerik:



Born Sept. 4, 1955, in Newark, N.J., "Bernie" grew up in a tough neighborhood of Paterson, N.J., a suburb of New York City. His mother abandoned him when he was a boy, and he lived with friends and relatives until his father took custody of him. In his autobiography, Kerik says his mother was a prostitute who might have been killed by her pimp.

• Dropped out of high school in 1974 to join the military police corps. Later worked as a corporate security officer in Saudi Arabia.

• Capitalizing on a relationship with a New Jersey sheriff, became warden of the Passaic County, New Jersey, jail at age 30 — the youngest warden in county history. He quit the post in July 1986 to join the New York Police Department. He worked as an undercover drug officer, donning a long ponytail and earring, and earned numerous awards for his police work, including the department's Medal of Valor.

• Continuing his penchant for befriending powerful people, served as Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bodyguard and driver in 1993. Giuliani appointed him a deputy city corrections commissioner in 1995 and corrections commissioner in 1998, where he became known for making unannounced visits to cell blocks at 2 a.m. and successfully lowered inmate violence and sick-day abuse by guards.
(Read "Can a New York Cop Tame Baghdad?")

• Appointed police commissioner in 2000 by Mayor Giuliani, despite concerns from many aides about Kerik's reputation for flouting rules and his lack of a college degree — a requirement for senior police officers. Along with Giuliani, he won national praise for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He stepped down from the NYPD when Giuliani left office at the end of 2001 and joined Giuliani's consulting firm, where he reportedly earned millions, and published a best-selling memoir in 2001, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice.

• Appointed by President George W. Bush as the interim Iraqi Interior Minister to help train the country's security forces. He would join commandos on late-night raids in Baghdad but left abruptly after 3½ months.

• Nominated by President Bush as the second Secretary of Homeland Security in 2004. He withdrew his nomination a week later after revealing he had not paid taxes related to a nanny who was an illegal immigrant. Kerik's Nannygate, however, was followed by revelations of a flood of more scandalous missteps, including an affair with the publisher of his memoirs, Judith Regan, in an apartment near ground zero intended for weary 9/11 rescue workers. Regan later said she hired a bodyguard after the relationship ended and Kerik continued pursuing her.

• In 2006, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ethics violations committed while serving as corrections commissioner; Kerik admitted accepting $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment from a company accused of having ties to organized crime that sought city business. He paid $221,000 in fines, and under orders from Mayor Mike Bloomberg, his name was removed from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex, a Manhattan jail, which reverted to its original name, the Manhattan Detention Complex.

• Indicted on federal corruption charges in November 2007 and on tax fraud and other charges in May 2009. He was accused of failing to report $200,000 in rental income and failing to disclose a $250,000 loan to White House officials vetting him for the Homeland Security role, among other crimes. His legal troubles would end up damaging Giuliani's 2008 presidential bid.

• His bail was revoked and Kerik was sent to jail on Oct. 20 by an angry federal judge who accused him of leaking legal information to an outside attorney, who later provided that information to the Washington Times, seeking favorable coverage (the newspaper did not print the material). Kerik became Inmate No. 210717 at the Westchester County jail in Valhalla, N.Y.

• Lived in Franklin Lakes, N.J., with his third wife, Hala Matli. He has four children; Giuliani is godfather to two of them.

• Has a black belt in karate.

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Filiberto Ojeda Rios:



Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was the commander-in-chief of the Boricua Popular Army, a clandestine paramilitary organization that considers United States rule over Puerto Rico to be oppressive colonization and advocates the latter's independence.

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Philip Mudd:



As a Senior Research Fellow, Philip Mudd studies issues of counterterrorism, intelligence, and homeland security with the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative.

Mr. Mudd joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in South Asia and then the Middle East. He began work in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center in 1992 and then served on the National Intelligence Council as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia (1995-98). After a tour as an executive assistant in the front office of the Agency’s analytic arm, Mr. Mudd went on to manage Iraq analysis at the CIA (1999-2001).

He began a policy assignment at the White House in early 2001, detailed from CIA to serve as the Director for Gulf Affairs on the White House National Security Council. He left after the September 11 attacks for a short assignment as the CIA member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government for Afghanistan, and he returned to CIA in early 2002 to become second-in-charge of counterterrorism analysis in the Counterterrorist Center. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the Center in 2003 and served there until 2005.

At the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Branch in 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed Mr. Mudd to serve as the Branch’s first-ever deputy director. He received a Presidential nomination to become Undersecretary of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security in early 2009 but later withdrew his nomination, returning to the FBI as its Senior Intelligence Adviser. Mr. Mudd resigned from government service in March 2010.

Mr. Mudd is the recipient of numerous CIA awards and commendations, including the Director’s Award; the George H.W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism; the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal; the first-ever William Langer Award for excellence in analysis; and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards.

During his assignments at CIA and the FBI, Mr. Mudd has commented about terrorism in open and closed Congressional testimony, and he has been featured on all major networks and in print media as a specialist in counterterrorism.

Mr. Mudd graduated cum laude from Villanova University with a B.A. in English Literature (1983), and he earned an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia (1984).
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Liberty City Seven:

were seven members of a small Miami, Florida-based religious group who called themselves the Universal Divine Saviors. Described as a "bizarre cult," the seven were arrested and charged with terrorism-related offenses in 2006 after a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting investigation. The members of the group operated out of a small warehouse in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City.

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