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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the help of numerous
individuals. Nathan Chandler provided key research support and
was intimately involved in building and revising the data set. His role
was fundamental, and his fingerprints are on virtually every page of
the document. Daniel Byman and Lindsay Clutterbuck provided thorough
reviews, which significantly improved the quality of the document.
Bruce Hoffman, Gary Berntsen, and James Dobbins provided
useful information and critiques. Audrey Kurth Cronin and Timothy
Crawford offered excellent comments at the American Political Science
Association conference in 2007. We owe a special debt of gratitude to
those government officials from the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Iraq, India, Canada, and European countries who took time out of
their busy schedules to provide us critical information about al Qa’ida
and counterterrorism efforts. In the United States, these included individuals
at the National Ground Intelligence Center, Defense Intelligence
Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Office of the
Secretary of Defense, U.S. Agency for International Development, and
U.S. Department of State. Most did not want to be identified because
of the sensitivity of the information they provided, so we cannot thank
them by name.
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