3. Fisk, “Anti-Soviet Warrior Puts His Army on the Road to Peace.”
4. “Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Plan in Yemen, Egypt, and Gulf,” Al Watan Al-Arabi, 27 December 1996; Al-Ayyash and Najm, “Behind the Scenes of the American Strike against Bin Laden’s Secret Cells.”
5. “Bin Laden Took Advantage of the Situation,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat; Hisham Mubarak, “The Battle between the Blind Man and the Captive,” Rose al-Yusuf, 24 August 1992, 22–24.
6. Salah, “Secret of the Relationship between al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden,” 30, 31; Al-Ibrushi, “Interview with Abu Hamzah al-Masri,” 16–17.
7. Najm, “The Destruction of the Base.”
8. Muhammed Salah, “Cairo: ‘Returnees from Albania’ Case Is Biggest Blow to Jihad Groups,” Al-Hayah, 20 April 1999, 3.
9. Muhammed Salah, “The Main Defendant Confirms the Islamists’ Determination to Retaliate against United States,” Al-Hayah, 5 February 1999, 5.
10. Salah, “Cairo: ‘Returnees from Albania’ Case Is Biggest Blow to Jihad Groups,” 3.
11. “Militant Leader Urges Holy War on U.S., Israel,” Al-Rai Al-Amm, 9 July 1998.
12. Salah, “Secret of the Relationship between al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden.”
13. “Jihad Group Threatens to Take Revenge against United States,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 2 November 1998, 8.
14. “Fundamentalists Emphasize that al-Islambouli Did Not Accompany Bin Laden,” Al-Hayah, 26 February 1999, 6.
15. Arnett, “Osama Bin Laden: The Interview.”
16. Khamran Khan, “Palestinian Unveils Osama’s International War against U.S., News.”
17. Sa’id al-Qaysi, “Bin Laden’s New ‘Islamic Front,’” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 6 June 1998, 26–27; Mubarak, “The Battle between the Blind Man and the Captive,” 22–24.
18. “Text of World Front’s Statement Urging Jihad against Jews and Crusaders,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
19. Al-Qaysi, “Bin Laden’s New ‘Islamic Front.’”
20. Muhammed al-Shifai’i, “Egyptian ‘Armed Vanguards of Conquest’ Calls on ‘Islamic Front’ to Expand Membership,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 26 February 1998, 4.
21. “Interview with Sa’d al-Faqih,” Frontline Online.
22. Timmerman, “This Man Wants You Dead.”
23. Wa’el al-Ibrushi, “Afghanistan’s Extremists Disclose the Secrets of the Financier of Terrorism: Bin Laden Was Made by U.S. Intelligence,” Rose al-Yusuf, 24 August 1998, 16–17.
24. Wajid Abassi, “Interview with Lashkar-I-Tayyaba Chief, Professor Hafiz Muhammed Saeed,” Ausaf, 3 January 2000, 11, 12; Owais Tohid, “Azhar Calls for Jihad against India First, Then U.S.,” AFP, 6 January 2000.
25. Al-Qaysi, “Bin Laden’s New ‘Islamic Front.’”
26. Sharaf-al-Din, “Surprises from the Trial of the Largest International Terrorist Group in Egypt,” 5; John F. Burns, “Yemen on Delicate Path in Bin Laden Hunt,” New York Times, 15 December 2000.
27. “Jailed Egyptian Islamist Warns of Anti-U.S. Attacks,” AFP, 6 March 1999; “Jihad, Bin Laden Involved in Bombing of U.S. Embassies,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Internet version), 2 May 1999.
28. Sharaf-al-Din, “Surprises from the Trial of the Largest International Terrorist Group in Egypt.”
29. Nick Hopkins et al., “U.S. on Terrorist Alert as Revenge Targets Named,” Sydney Morning Herald (Internet version), 24 August 1998.
30. Macleod, “The Paladin of the Jihad”; Fisk, “Anti-Soviet Warrior Puts His Army on the Road to Peace.”
31. “Interview with Larry C. Johnson,” Frontline Online.
32. “Fiji Police Searching for Suspects with Terrorists Links,” Internet Fiji Live, 4 May 1999; Levy and Scott-Clark, “Bin Laden’s Mercenaries Gather for Kashmir’s Jihad”; “Australians Being Recruited for Bin Laden Jihad,” AFP, 29 April 1999; Peter Chen, “Osama Said Recruiting Muslims in Melbourne for Jihad,” Taiwan Central News Agency (Internet version), 30 April 1999; Maki Pulido, “Military Monitoring New Philippine Terrorist Group,” GMA-7 Radio-Television Arts Network, 27 October 1998; “World; Africa: Suspect Bin Laden Associate Arrested,” BBC Online Network, 5 March 1999; “Suspected Bin Laden Supporters Held in Mauritania,” AFP, 5 March 1999; “Mauritania Holds Man with Suspected Bin Laden Link,” Reuters, 4 March 1999; Bob Drogin and Tracy Wilkinson, “Bin Laden Followers Indicted over Alleged Terrorist Plot,” Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2000, A-3; “Duo Cites Bin Laden in Bangladesh Attack,” Washington Times, 30 January 1999, A-9; “Secrets of Meetings between Iranians and Fundamentalists,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 7 March 1997.
33. “Will Bin Laden End Up in China? Taliban Makes Afghan Arabs Wage Jihad in Xinjiang,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 23 May 1997; “Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Plan in Yemen, Egypt, and Gulf,” Al Watan Al-Arabi; “Nairobi Bombing Suspect Eludes FBI,” Reuters, 17 September 1998; “Jihad, Bin Laden Involved in Bombing of U.S. Embassies,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat; Muhammad al-Shafa’i, “Britain’s Fundamentalist Movements Open Training Camps for Their Members in the United States and Others in Northern Nigeria,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 4 July 2000, 3; Peter Foster and Maurice Weaver, “Young Britons Heed Call to Arms for Holy War,” Daily Telegraph (Internet version), 29 December 2000; Miroslav Lazanski, “The American Seed,” Veernje, 6 December 1998, 6.
34. Miller, “Greetings America: My Name Is Osama Bin Laden.”
35. “Sources View Options on Bin Laden’s Whereabouts,” Al-Ittihad (Internet version), 17 February 1999; “Americans Are Paper Tigers,” Der Spiegel.
36. “Bin Laden Trained Ugandans,” New Vision, 1.
37. Al-Ayyash and Najm, “Behind the Scenes of the American Strike.”
38. For example, see “Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Plan in Yemen, Egypt, and Gulf,” Al Watan Al-Arabi.
39. “Americans Are Paper Tigers,” Der Spiegel.
40. “Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Plan in Yemen, Egypt, and Gulf,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi; “Information on Bin Laden’s Plans to Set Up Base in Somalia,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Internet version), 1 May 1999.
41. Al-Ayyash and Najm, “Behind the Scenes of the American Strike.”
42. “Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Plan in Yemen, Egypt, and Gulf,” Al Watan Al-Arabi.
43. “Information on Bin Laden’s Plans to Set Up Base in Somalia,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
44. Maurizio Molinari, “Bin Laden Has Bases in Somalia,” Le Stampa, 19 June 1999, 10; “Israelis Invading ‘Somaliland’: Strategic Location, Natural Wealth, and Uranium,” Al-Wasat, 2 April 2001, 16–19.
45. Al-Ayyash and Najm, “Behind the Scenes of the American Strike”; Benjamin Weiser, “Prosecutors Portray the Strands of a Bin Laden Web of Terror,” New York Times, 23 January 2000, A-4.
46. Yusef Khazim, “Islamists Regroup Their Forces after Ethiopian Preemptive Strikes,” Al-Wasat Magazine, 17–23 May 1999, 30–33.
47. Sa’id al-Qaysi, “Report on U.S. Embassy Bombing Probe,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 30 October 1998, 26, 27.
48. Khazim, “Islamists Regroup Their Forces after Ethiopian Preemptive Strikes.”
49. Weiser, “Prosecutors Portray the Strands of a Bin Laden Web of Terror”; Molinari, “Bin Laden Has Bases in Somalia.”
50. Aremio Enracia Jr., “Khalifah Denies Links with Bin Laden,” Philippine Daily Inquirer (Internet version), 21 December 1998.
51. “CIA Report on Bin Laden’s Filipino Links,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat; Gerth and Miller, “Terror Money: A Special Report; Funds for Terrorists Traced to Persons, Gulf Businesses”; Canares and Balana, “Spy Chief Claims Info on Bin Laden in Mindanao.”
52. Weaver, “Blowback”; “Secrets of the Worldwide Campaign Chasing Osama Bin Laden,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi; “CIA Report on Bin Laden’s Filipino Links,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat; “Taliban Expelling Arab Muslim Fundamentalists: Egypt,” AFP, 27 December 1996.
53. Michael Sadim, “Bin Laden Said to Be Giving Military Aid to MILF,” Manila Times (Internet version), 13 February 1999; Weaver, “Blowback”; Burgos, “Mindanao Cops Have Photos of Saudi Tycoon.”
/> 54. Risen, “Bin Laden Was Target of U.S. Raid Plans since Spring”; Mu’in, “European Security Organs Get Ready to Dismantle Bin Laden’s Network”; Jerry Esplanada, “Four Suspected Foreign Financiers of Abu Sayyaf Identified,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, 22 April 1995, 18.
55. Khan, “Palestinian Unveils Osama’s International War against U.S.”
56. Sadim, “Bin Laden Said to Be Giving Military Aid to MILF.”
57. Pulido, “Military Monitoring New Philippine Terrorist Group.”
58. “Philippine Muslim Rebels Await Afghan Arms Shipment,” AFP, 21 February 1999.
59. Anthony Davis, “Islamic Guerrillas Threaten the Fragile Peace of Mindanao,” Jane’s Intelligence Review 10, no. 5 (May 1998): 30–35; N. P. Aquino and M. S. Villamor, “Filipino DefSec Reports on Arms Buildup by MILF,” Business World (Internet version), 14 March 2000.
60. “Philippines’ MILF Reveals Bin Laden Link,” Philippine Star (Internet version), 10 February 1999.
61. Bennet, “U.S. Cruise Missiles Strike Sudan and Afghan Targets Tied to Terrorist Network”: “U.S. Has Long Blamed Sudan for Harboring Terrorists,” Associated Press, 20 August 1998; Alan Sipress, “Sudan, N. Korea Cited for Gains on Terrorism,” Washington Post, 1 May 2000, A-8.
62. Louise Tunbridge, “Islam Crusade Warning for U.S. ‘Enemy,’” Daily Telegraph, 15 August 1995, 8.
63. “Rebels Say Attack on Juba Imminent,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 16 February 1998, 1.
64. “Osama Bin Laden Sends Message to Anti-U.S. Conference,” Al-Akhbar, 7, 8.
65. “Islamist Leader Bin Laden Urges Muslims to Kill Britons,” AFP; “World Front for Fighting the Jews and the Crusaders, Statement No. 4,” Al-Hayah.
66. Olimpio, “Saddam’s Latest Challenge”; “Story of Cooperation between Iraq and Both Taliban and Bin Laden; It Started before Operation Desert Fox,” Al-Majallah, 10–16 January 1999, 25; Ahmad Muwaffaq Zaydan, “Amid Conflicting Reports on Expansion of His Current Contacts and Scarcity of His Resources, Washington Is Pursuing Bin Laden’s Network in India in Anticipation of a New Strike by Him,” Al-Hayah, 22 January 1998, 6; Timmerman, “This Man Wants You Dead”; “Unattributed Biography of Osama Bin Laden,” Frontline Online.
67. Yusufzai, “World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.”
68. “Bin Laden: Afghanistan’s Inclusion on U.S. ‘Terrorism List’ Is ‘Certificate of Good Conduct’ for Taliban,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 18 May 1998, 3.
69. Fisk, “Arab Rebel Leader Warns the British: ‘Get Out of the Gulf.’”
70. Miller, “Greetings America: My Name Is Osama Bin Laden.”
71. “Secrets of the Worldwide Campaign Chasing Osama Bin Laden,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi; Michael Grunwald, “Bin Laden Associate Indicted for Perjury,” Washington Post, 22 September 1998, A-12; Nicholas Blanford, “Rebels from ‘Islamist Internationale’?” Daily Star (Internet version), 3 January 2000; “Afghans and Algerians in North Lebanon Battles,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Internet version), 3 January 2000; Subhi Yaghi, “Bin Laden Said Funding Islamists Fighting Lebanese Army,” Al-Nahar (Internet version), 5 January 2000; Ahmad Khalid, “Lebanese Islamists Link to Bin Laden Probed,” Al-Shira’, 17 January 2000, 23–25; “Al-Murr: No Bases for Bin Laden or the ‘Afghans’ in Lebanon,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 26 January 2000, 5; Muhammed Salah-al-Din, “The Phenomenon of Profiting from Terrorism,” Al-Madinah, 25 January 2000, 2; Wa’el al-Ibrashi, “Story of the Two Most Famous Egyptian Prisoners in London, the Faxed Fingerprint that Proved Connection between Egyptian Lawyer and Bin Laden, Umar Bakri on Differences with Bin Laden on Sectarianism and Fatwa to Kill American Women and Children,” Rose Al-Yusuf, 4 November 2000, 34–36; Sa’id al-Qaysi, “Bin Laden Reportedly Setting Up Camp in Lebanon,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 18 August 2000, 16, 17.
72. “Osama Says Taliban Rejected US Billions for Arrest,” Ausaf, 1, 7; Milt Bearden and Larry Johnson, “A Glimpse at the Alliances of Terror,” New York Times (Op-Ed), 7 November 2000; Chris Kozlow, “The Bombing of Khobar Towers: Who Did It? And Who Funded It?” Jane’s Intelligence Review 9, no. 12 (December 1997); Abd-al-Rahim, “Bin Laden’s New York Activities,” 18–22; “Report on the Threat to Arab Countries by Terrorist Bin Laden,” Sawt al-Mar’ah.
73. “Interview with Roland Jaquard, Monitor of International Terrorism,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi.
74. “Unattributed Biography of Osama Bin Laden,” Frontline Online.
75. “Declaration of Jihad against the Americans,” Al-Islah; Miller, “Exclusive Interview with Osama Bin Laden,” “Osama Bin Laden, Letter from Kandahar.”
76. Philip Shenon, “House Votes $1.4 Billion for Embassy Security,” New York Times, 22 July 1999, A-9; “Report on Bin Laden’s Activities, Wealth,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 23-28.
77. Muhammed Salah, “Fundamentalist Source: Bin Laden Front Purchased Chemical Weapons from Eastern Europe,” Al-Hayah, 20 April 1999, 1.
78. Stefan Leader, “Osama Bin Laden and the Terrorist Search for WMD,” Jane’s Intelligence Review 11, no. 6 (June 1999): 34–37.
79. “Bin Laden Congratulates Pakistan on Its Possession of Nuclear Weapon,” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 2.
80. Azeem Siddiqui, “Interview with Osama Bin Laden Reported,” Al-Akhbar, 31 March 1998, 1, 8.
81. Ismail, “Bin Laden Urges Attacks against U.S., UK Interests.”
82. Francois Soudan, “Thus Spoke Osama Bin Laden,” Jeune Afrique, 8–26 January 1999, 20–21; “No Lack of Candidates for Embassy Bombings,” Reuters, 7 August 1998; “What Does Israel’s Acknowledgment of Possessing Nuclear Weapons Mean?” Al-Jazirah (Editorial), 21 January 2000, 3.
83. Guido Olimpio, “Islamic Cell Preparing Chemical Warfare, Toxins, Gases against West,” Corriere della Sera, 8 July 1998, 8.
84. For example, see Ibid.; Guido Olimpio, “In Osama’s Lair,” Sette Magazine, 3 September 1998; Mann, “Bin Laden Linked to Nuclear Effort,” 58; Ahmad Muwaffaw Zaydan and Shafiq al-Asadi, “Information about Nuclear Weapon for Bin Laden from Central Asia,” Al-Hayah, 6 October 1998, 1, 6.
85. Olimpio, “Islamic Cell Preparing Chemical Warfare, Toxins, Gases against West”; Timmerman, “This Man Wants You Dead.”
86. Olimpio, “Islamic Cell Preparing Chemical Warfare, Toxins, Gases against West.”
87. Ibid.
88. Riyad Alam-al-Din, “Iraq, Bin Laden Ties Examined,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 1 January 1999, 16–18; Miller, “Greetings America: My Name Is Osama Bin Laden.”
89. Olimpio, “Islamic Cell Preparing Chemical Warfare, Toxins, Gases against West.”
90. Olimpio, “In Osama’s Lair.”
91. John McWethy, “Osama Bin Laden Plans Attacks on United States,” ABC World News Tonight, 16 June 1999; “U.S. Intelligence Cites Iraqi Ties to Sudan Plant,” Associated Press, 25 August 1998; Alam-al-Din, “Iraq, Bin Laden Ties Examined.”
92. Olimpio, “Islamic Cell Preparing Chemical Warfare, Toxins, Gases against West”; Svitlana Bulaneko, “Yuriy Volodymyrovych Zemlyanskyy Wave of Terrorism Awaits World in Third Millennium, “ Segodnya, 9 February 2000, 14, 15 (Zemlyanskyy is deputy head of the Ukrainian State Security Service); Gannon, “Suspected Terrorists Enjoy Taliban Protection”; Paul Daley, “Report Says UBL-Linked Groups Possess ‘Deadly’ Anthrax and Plague Viruses,” Age (Internet version), 4 June 2000.
93. Zaydan and al-Asadi, “Information about Nuclear Weapon for Bin Laden from Central Asia.”
94. Sharaf-al-Din, “Surprises from the Trial of the Largest International Terrorist Group in Egypt.”
95. Salah, “Fundamentalist Source: Bin Laden Front Purchased Chemical Weapons from Eastern Europe.”
96. Auster, “An Inside Look at Terror Inc”; Waller, “Inside the Hunt for Osama,” 32; Pino Buongiorno et al., “Alarm over Russia: All Clinton’s and Blair’s Next Moves,” Milan Panorama (Internet version), 14 May 1998.
97. “el. Ma.,” “Osama Bin Laden in Tirana Offices,” 12; Robert D. Kaplan, “The Lawless Frontier,” Atlantic Monthly (September 2000): 66; Julian West, “Atomic Haul Raises Fears of Bin
Laden Terror Bomb,” Sunday Telegraph (Internet version), 23 April 2000.
98. Zaydan and Al-Asadi, “Information about Nuclear Weapon for Bin Laden from Central Asia”; Abd-al-Rahim, “Bin Laden’s New York Activities.”
99. Riyad Alam-al-Din, “Report Links Bin Laden, Nuclear Weapons,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 13 November 1998; Riyad Alam-al-Din, “Major Terrorist Plot against Dubai Revealed,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi, 10 April 1998, 30, 31; “Interview with Roland Jaquard, Monitor of International Terrorism,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi.
100. Alam-al-Din, “Report Links Bin Laden, Nuclear Weapons.”
101. Ibid.
102. Ibid.
103. Olimpio, “A Secret Pact with Bin Laden, the Terror Shaykh,” 7; Nabil Abu-Sutayt, “International Intelligence Conference Draws Up Three Scenarios for Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Terrorist Attacks in the Middle East,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 11 November 1999, 3.
104. Guido Olimpio, “Osama Bin Laden Disappears from Kabul, and Baghdad Pops Up in the Terror Shaykh’s New Travels,” Corriere della Sera, 14 February 1999, 10.
105. Alam-al-Din, “Report Links Bin Laden, Nuclear Weapons”; Najm and Al-Ayyash, “Report Views Bin Laden Operations, Counterterrorism Efforts.”
106. McWethy, “Osama Bin Laden Plans Attack on United States”; “Bin Laden Threatens Terrorism Hit in U.S.,” CBS Evening News, 6 August 1999; Burke and Baweja, “Target … India”; Leslie Stahl, “Interview with Richard Clarke,” Federal News Service, 24 October 2000; Peter Baker, “Pakistani Scientist Who Met Bin Laden Failed Polygraphs, Renewing Suspicions,” Washington Post, 3 March 2002, 1.
Chapter 13
1. Miller, “Exclusive Interview with Osama Bin Laden.”
2. Mufti Jamil Khan, “Bin Laden: Expel Jews, Christians from Holy Places,” Jang, 18 November 1998, 1, 7.
3. Amba, “Saudi Militant’s Wish: To Die Fighting America.”
4. Edward T. Renehan Jr., The Lion’s Pride. Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), xii, 289.
5. Miller, “Greetings America: My Name Is Osama Bin Laden.”
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