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Operation Foxden hit a major roadblock in July 1999 when President Clinton signed an executive order preventing U.S. citizens from doing business with the Taliban. Bayat, with the F.B.I. backing him, sought an exemption but was refused. He urged his Taliban contacts to pursue alternatives. “They wanted to work with him alone, and urged him to do whatever it took to make this possible,” Rose reports. The N.S.A. didn’t give up either. According to Rose, the agency “not only backed the effort but concluded that the project was so promising that it justified a direct N.S.A. investment,Sony HVR-HD1000E, set for around $30 million—a decision that could not have been made without approval by the highest levels of the agency.” Bayat tried to get around the ban by transferring ownership of Afghan Wireless to a company he and his partners set up in Liechtenstein. “Bentham was briefed on the N.S.A.’s continuing interest in Operation Foxden and was told that the agency was seeking ways of evading the legal issues raised by U.S. sanctions,Panasonic HDC-SD1,” Rose reports. “He was also told that the F.B.I. had been given a ‘window of opportunity’ to get the network operational,Thinkpad w510, and that it would ‘coordinate’ the operation with the rest of the U.S. government.”

The final blow for Operation Foxden came in January 2000 when the C.I.A. intervened. “For the next 13 months,Sony HXR-MC2000U, until February 2001,HP EliteBook 8440P XT918UT, the interagency review ground on,Canon Normal EF 50mm f/1.2L USM Autofocus Lens, with a series of fractious meetings involving the F.B.I. and N.S.A. at C.I.A. headquarters,HP EliteBook 8540p XT923UT, in Langley,Sony HDR-SR7, Virginia,Panasonic AG-HMC40,” Rose reports. “Richard Clarke, became personally involved, but neither he nor anyone else seemed able to resolve the impasse. The divisions were not just between agencies; some turf wars were internal as well,” Rose writes. “Thus, while the C.I.A. was seeking overall control of the operation,Canon EOS 7D, there was also an inside fight over which of its sections should take it over.” A former C.I.A. officer tells Rose that the agency did not want British involvement with the project. “We wanted to force them and M.I.6 out, because there was a question of control,” he says. Margaret Bentham recalls that once the C.I.A. got involved,Canon XL1, the British partners were turned away from meetings. “They were told they could have nothing more to do with the F.B.I. and N.S.A.—pending the U.S. review—until further notice,Sony HDR-FX7,” she says.
“Even as Bayat negotiated a license with the Taliban,Thinkpad T420, the F.B.I. agents put out feelers to the N.S.A,” Rose reports. “By building extra circuits into all the new network’s equipment, it would be possible to ensure that anytime anyone used a phone in Afghanistan, the call could be monitored at a ‘duplicate exchange’ at Fort Meade. The N.S.A. would capture the name of the subscriber and the number being called, and the call would be digitally recorded or, if desired, heard by American intelligence officers live,Sony Z133GX/S Silver, in real time.” By May of 1999, the equipment was on the ground in Kabul; in June “the Taliban signed a contract guaranteeing Afghan Wireless a monopoly on ‘all aspects’ of cell-phone traffic in Afghanistan for 15 years,” Rose reports. “The Taliban really wanted telephones. They knew they couldn’t do business without them,” says Alex Grinling,Panasonic HDC-HS900, who had been the in-country manager for Afghan Wireless.
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“There I was in bloody Kabul, wondering where the hell the cell-phone equipment was, fending off inquiries from the Taliban communications minister. But I couldn’t give him answers. It was a nightmare,Canon EOS 5D Mark II, ” says Grinling. A cell-phone network much like the one envisioned in Operation Foxden was eventually built, but not until after 9/11. According to Rose, “the C.I.A. made a direct investment of more than $70 million,SONY VAIO VPCF13CGX/B, which it transferred via a front company based in the British Virgin Islands.”
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Bayat did not respond to Rose’s request for comment. His former British partners,Panasonic AG-DVX100B, Stuart Bentham and Lord Michael Cecil,JVC GY HM700U, are bound by a gag order stemming from a 2003 suit they filed against him that was stopped and sealed under the State Secrets Privilege. “Through interviews with other individuals who are not legally restricted, and through voluminous contemporary documents made available to me, it has been possible to assemble a narrative,Panasonic AG-HMC80,” Rose asserts. Bentham’s wife Margaret, who was present at meetings with Bayat in Britain and America,THINKPAD T400S, was a source for his reporting. “We always thought that this was how they would catch the terrorists,” she tells Rose about Afghan Wireless. “It wasn’t just about making money. We believed we were doing the right thing.”
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