Part and parcel of this success, the men make clear, were the renditions of captured Qaeda terrorists.

Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists.

The videotape is similar to tapes made by other Qaeda terrorists.

On the other hand, Qaeda terrorists "tend to be more focused and lethal to include the use of suicide bombers," he said.

All, he decided, were "enemy combatants" outside the protection of the conventions because they were either Qaeda terrorists or Taliban soldiers.

But the Pakistani Army has conducted successful operations and killed about 700 Qaeda terrorists over the years.

He is the source of the intelligence about the 60 Qaeda terrorists in Biyara carrying out Saddam's assassination plans.

Yet for every Qaeda terrorist we kill, a hundred are poised to replace him.

He goes on to chronicle ties that were subsequently drawn between Qaeda terrorists and the illicit diamond business in West Africa.