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18 Mahle, Denial and Deception, pages 247–48.
19 Author interview, 2003.
20 Author interview, 2010.
21 See Robert Baer, See No Evil: The True Story of a Good Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism (New York: Crown, 2002), page 270. Baer does not specify Qatar in his book.
22 Mahle, Denial and Deception, page 13.
CHAPTER 7: MEETING BIN LADEN
1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 276.
2 Author interview with Mary Jo White, June 30, 2010.
3 Ibid.
4 Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (New York: The Berkeley Publishing Group, 2003), page xxx.
5 Maria Ressam, CNN.com
6 Peter L. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press, 2006), page 300.
7 “Trail on bin Laden Grows Cold on South America’s Triple Frontier,” by Henry Orego, Agence France-Presse, May 4, 2003. The article is datelined: Ciuidad del Este, Paraguay.
8 Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), page 235.
9 Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, page 300.
10 Wright, The Looming Tower, page 235.
11 Ibid., page 236.
12 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 150.
13 Ibid., page 148.
14 Author interview with a European intelligence source.
15 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 149.
16 Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), page 175.
17 “Unheeded Warnings: A Special Report; Before Bombings, Omens and Fears,” by James Risen and Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, January 9, 1999, page 1.
18 Ibid.
19 “1st Gunfire: Then Explosion: Toll Rises: Survivors Give Details of Attack,” by Hugh Delios, Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1998, page 1. Note: This is from the “Chicagoland Final Edition” and is datelined Nairobi, Kenya.
20 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 149.
21 Ibid., page 150.
CHAPTER 8: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
1 “Terror Suspect Arrest Yields Names of al-Qaeda Cell Members: Official,” Agence France-Presse, March 2, 2003.
2 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 150.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., page 154.
7 Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), page 308.
8 Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding, Masterminds of Terror—The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2003), page 127.
9 “Al-Qaeda’s Master Killer; The Man Who Plotted the Sept 11 Attacks, Khalid Posed the Single Biggest Threat to Global Security,” by Shefali Rekhi, The Straits Times (Singapore), March 10, 2003.
10 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 234.
11 Ibid.
12 Richard Miniter, Losing bin Laden—How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003), page 95.
13 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 234.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid., page 235.
19 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004.
20 Substitution for the Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. U.S. v. Moussaoui. Defendant’s Exhibit 941.
21 Peter L. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press, 2006), page 304.
22 “The Nation: The 9/11 Commission Report: The Terrorist Plot,” by Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2004, page 1.
23 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 260.
24 Ibid., page 236.
25 Wright, The Looming Tower, pages 307–8.
26 Ibid., page 307.
27 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 167.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid., page 219.
30 John R. Schindler, Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad (St. Paul, Minn.: Zenith Press, 2007), page 281.
31 The 9/11 Commission Report, August 2004, page 219.
32 Ibid., page 224.
33 Ibid., page 236.
34 Dominic Kennedy, Sunday Times (U.K.), September 9, 2002.
35 “Arrested al Qaeda Operative May Tell Secrets,” CNN Saturday Morning News, September 14, 2002, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/14/smn.09.html.
36 Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, page 304.
CHAPTER 9: THE DANIEL PEARL MURDER
1 “Former FBI Investigator on Daniel Pearl,” by Robert Windrem and Richard Greenberg, NBC News, June 22, 2007. Omar Sheikh: “Well, he’s [Osama bin Laden] out there living off the land, so he doesn’t have McDonald’s and he doesn’t have Kentucky Fried Chicken, doesn’t eat a lot of meats and gravies and starches. But there’s one guy who’s operating north of here and one guy who’s here in Karachi who are like the left and the right hand of Osama bin Laden.”
2 “Al Qaida ‘Kingpin’ Says Attack at 2002 World Cup Planned,” Japan Economic Newswire, February 14, 2004. The article is datelined Tokyo.
3 “The News: Karachi Page,” Dawn Karachi, February 15, 2002.
4 “Daniel Pearl Bio,” retrieved from www.DanielPearlFoundation.com, June 2010.
5 Tariq Ali, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (New York: Scribner, 2008), page 150.
6 “NewsHour Update: Missing Reporter Masour Interview,” PBS Online, January 29, 2002.
7 Author interview, July 2010.
8 “In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Extract: How We Found Pearl Buried in Ten Pieces,” by Pervez Musharraf, The (London) Times, September 26, 2006.
9 “Former FBI Investigator,” Windrem and Greenberg.
10 Robert Sam Anson, “The Journalist and the Terrorist,” Vanity Fair, August 2002.
11 “Missing Reporter Masour Interview.”
12 Anson, “The Journalist and the Terrorist.”
13 “Missing Reporter Masour Interview.”
14 Peter L. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press, 2006), page xv.
15 Anson, “The Journalist and the Terrorist.”
16 “Missing Reporter Masour Interview.”
17 Anson, “The Journalist and the Terrorist.”
18 Ibid.
19 Washington Post, February 23, 2002.
20 “Underworld Where Terror and Security Meet,” by Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, July 16, 2002.
21 “Bomb Probe Eyes Pakistan Links,” by Farah Stockman, Boston Globe, January 6, 2002.
22 Anson, “The Journalist and the Terrorist.”
23 “A Murder’s Aftermath: Killing of Pearl Fit Into Pakistani Web of Radical Islam,” by Steve LeVine, Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2003.
24 “Karachi Page,” February 15, 2002.
25 “Where Terror and Security Meet,” McCarthy, July 16, 2002.
26 “Who Really Killed Danny Pearl?” by Asra Q. Nomani, Salon, October 22, 2003.
27 “Daniel Pearl—A Timeline of Events,” Gather, June 20, 2007.
28 “Daniel Pearl Timeline,” CNN.com, February 21, 2002.
29 “Karachi Page, February 15, 2002.”
30 “Timeline: Daniel Pearl Kidnap,” BBC News, South Asia, July 15, 2002.
31 “Daniel Pearl,” Gather, June 20, 2007.
32 “Daniel Pearl: 1963–2002,” Time, February 21, 2002.
33 “Karachi Page, February 15, 2002.”
34 “Daniel Pearl’s Killers Still on Loose,” by Joel Roberts, CBS News, January 22, 2003.
35 “Former FBI Investi
gator,” Windrem and Greenberg.
36 Ibid.
37 “Daniel Pearl ‘Refused to Be Sedated Before His Throat Was Cut’; Harrowing Details of the Killing of Journalist Fuel Police Anger That 12 Suspects Have Not Been Charged,” by Massoud Ansari, The Sunday Telegraph , May 9, 2004.
38 Ibid.
39 “A Murder’s Aftermath: Killing of Pearl Fit Into Pakistani Web of Radical Islam,” by Steve LeVine, Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2003.
40 Ibid.
41 “The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl, ” videotape, February 21, 2002.
42 Pervez Musharraf, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir (New York: Free Press 2006), page 228.
43 “New Allegations Emerge in Case of Slain Wall Street Journal Reporter That Could Complicate Case,” by Afzal Nadeem, Associated Press, August 18, 2002.
44 Amir Mir, The True Face of Jehadis: Inside Pakistan’s Network of Terror (New Delhi: Roli Books, 2006), page 40.
45 “Karachi Page,” February 15, 2002.
46 “Daniel Pearl Kidnap,” BBC News.
47 Mir, The True Face of Jehadis, page 40.
48 “Who Really Killed Danny Pearl?” Nomani.
49 Musharraf, In the Line of Fire, page 228.
50 Verbatim transcript of combatant status review tribunal hearing for ISN 10024, conducted March 10, 2007, onboard U.S. Naval Base Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
CHAPTER 10: EXPLOSIONS IN PARADISE
1 “Summary of Jose Padilla’s Activities with Al Qaeda.”
2 “Terror Suspect’s Path from Streets to Brig,” by Deborah Sontag, New York Times, April 25, 2004.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 “Summary of Jose Padilla’s Activities with Al Qaeda.”
8 Ibid.
9 Mujahideen Data Form/New Applicant Form, “The Military Administration Personnel Branch, Guesthouse Management,” Al Farouq Training Camp, Afghanistan, July 24, 2000.
10 “Summary of Jose Padilla’s Activities with Al Qaeda.”
11 “Guesthouse Management,” Al Farouq Training Camp, Afghanistan, July 24, 2000.
12 Peter L. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press: 2006), page xi.
13 Ibid., page 346.
14 “Summary of Jose Padilla’s Activities with Al Qaeda.”
15 Ibid.
16 Tim McGirk, “Anatomy of a Raid,” Time, April 8, 2002. It is datelined Faisalabad, Pakistan.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 “Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure,” by Scott Shane, New York Times, April 17, 2009.
21 Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), page 117.
22 Ibid., page 118.
23 “Al Qaeda Threatens Attack on the U.S.; Leader Takes Credit for Synagogue Bombing,” by Rawya Rageh, Associated Press, May 19, 2002.
24 “Deadly Attack Keeps World on Alert,” by Giles Tremiett in Djerba and Rabat, Rory McCarthy in Karachi, Luke Harding in Kabul, Julian Borger in Washington, John Aglionby in Jakarta, Michael Howard in northern Iraq and John Hooper in Berlin, The Guardian (U.K.), September 4, 2002.
25 “Tunisian Killed in Synagogue Blast Was Unlikely Convert to Militancy,” by Chris Hedges, New York Times, June 9, 2002, page 22.
26 Michael Elliott, et al., “Al Qaeda Now; Is It behind the Newest Attacks Worldwide? How the Damaged Network May Be Plotting the Next Big One,” Time, June 3, 2002.
27 “Deadly Attack Keeps World on Alert,” Tremiett, et al.
28 “Terror Suspect’s Path,” Sontag, April 25, 2004.
29 Ibid.
30 “We’ll Hit You: Pre-Bali Alert,” by Marian Wilkinson, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), November 16, 2002, page 1.
31 Ibid.
32 “Trial of Alleged Key Bali Bomber Begins,” by Tim Palmer, ABC News (Australia), April 27, 2004.
33 Maria A. Ressa, Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia (New York: Free Press, 2003), page 184.
34 “Judge Quotes Koran as Bali Mastermind Screams Defiance; Eye for an Eye: Samudra to Die,” by Wayne Miller, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), September 11, 2003, page 1.
35 “In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time,” by Rob Crilly and Ian Bruce, The Herald (Glasgow), November 30, 2002, page 8.
CHAPTER 11: “RECOGNIZE US YET?”
1 Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), page 102.
2 Ibid.
3 Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding, Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack the World Has Ever Seen (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2003), page 37.
4 Peter L. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press, 2006), page 302.
5 Ibid., page 303.
6 Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, page 133.
7 Ibid., page 102.
8 Fouda and Fielding, Masterminds of Terror, page 37.
9 Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, page 138.
10 Ibid., page 139.
11 “Threats and Responses: Karachi; Karachi Radical Provides Hint of Qaeda’s Rise in Pakistan,” by David Rohde, New York Times, September 15, 2002, page 1.
12 Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, page 156.
13 Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, pages 204–5.
14 “The Capture: Qaeda Suspect Sound Asleep at Trail’s End, Offers No Resistance,” by Erik Eckholm and David Johnson, New York Times, March 3, 2003.
15 Mir, The True Face of Jehadis, page 26.
16 Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, page 156.
17 “Prime 9-11 Suspect Nabbed; No. 3 Leader in al Qaida,” by Martin Merzer, Jessica Guynn, and Dave Montgomery, Knight Ridder Newspapers, March 2, 2003.
CHAPTER 12: KSM AND OBAMA: THE MASTERMIND’S LAST LAUGH
1 Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know (New York: Free Press, 2006), page 276.
2 Chris Mackey and Greg Miller, The Interrogators (New York: Back Bay Books, 2004), pages 178–81.
3 “Navy SEAL’S Mom Rejoices in His Acquittal in Iraq,” Breaking Chicago News from WGN and the Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2010, 12:41 P.M.
4 “Soldier Acquitted in Afghan Prisoner Abuse,” by Alicia Caldwell, AP Online, February 24, 2006.
5 Mackey and Miller, The Interrogators, page 181.
6 Marc A. Thiessen, Courting Disaster (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2010), page 45.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid., page 46
9 Ibid.
10 Richard Miniter, Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), page 87.
11 Thiessen, Courting Disaster, page 46.
12 “Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation,” by Scott Shane, New York Times, June 22, 2008.
13 “Security Profiles; Black Hawk Down,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/black_hawk_down.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
14 “Security Profiles; Saudi National Guard Bombing,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/saudi_national_guard_bombing.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
15 “Security Profiles; East African Embassy Bombings,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/saudi_national_guard_bombing.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
16 “23 U.S. Troops Die in Truck Bombing in Saudi Base,” by Philip Shenon, New York Times, June 26, 1996.
17 “Security Profiles; East African Embassy Bombings,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/east_african_embassy_bombings.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
18 “Security Profiles; Millenium Plot,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/s
ecurity/ops/millenium-plot.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
19 “Security Profiles; USS Cole Bombing,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/uss_cole_bombing.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
20 “Official 9/11 Death Toll Climbs By One,” CBN News, New York, July 10, 2008.
21 “Security Profiles; Bali Nightclub Bombing,” Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/bali_nightclub_bombing.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
22 “Security Profiles; 3-11 Madrid Train Bombings,” Global Security .org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/3-11_madrid_train_bombings.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
23 “Security Profiles; London Transit Bombings,” Global Security .org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/7-7_london_transit_bombings.htm, retrieved April 17, 2010.
24 “Raided Family of Microbiologist Denies Official Version of al-Qaida Arrests,” by Rory McCarthy, The Guardian (U.K.), March 3, 2003.
25 “Bin Laden Threatens Americans,” Al Jazeera, March 25, 2010; transcript, The Middle East Media Research Institute, March 25, 2010, http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2432.htm.
26 Thiessen, Courting Disaster, page 42.
27 Ibid., page 43.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid., page 44.
30 Ibid., page 53.
31 “A Deadly Kindness,” by Richard Miniter, New York Post, September 15, 2006.
32 Ibid.
33 “ACLU Taps Top Legal Talent to Defend Accused 9/11 Plotters,” by Carol Rosenberg, McClatchey Newspapers, April 4, 2008.
34 Ibid.
35 “I Want to Be a Martyr, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Tells Guantánamo Tribunal,” by Tim Reid, New York Times, June 6, 2008.
36 Ibid.
37 “Five 9/11 Suspects Defiant in Court,” by Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2008.
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Jane Mayer, “The Trial: Eric Holder and the Battle of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,” The New Yorker, February 15, 2010.
43 “Five 9/11 Suspects Defiant in Court,” Williams.
44 “9/11 Accused to Get Laptops in Cells,” by Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, October 12, 2008.
45 “Goodbye Gitmo: 9/11 War Crimes Trial Adjourns for What Could Be the Last Time,” Associated Press, January 20, 2009.