12 Giraldi: Philip Giraldi, “Suskind Revisited,” 8/7/08, www.amconmag.com
13 “manufactured”: int. Paul Pillar for Frontline: “The Dark Side,” www.pbs.org
14 “Unfortunately”/It’s my belief: press release, 6/5/08, http://intelligence.senate.gov, Report, cited above.
15 reputable estimates re deaths: www.iraqbodycount.org, http://icasualties.org. In addition to the American military casualties, more than three hundred non-U.S. troops had died as of early 2012 (Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, www.icasualties.org).
CHAPTER 35
1 “led and financed”: Richard Falkenrath, “The 9/11 Commission Report,” International Security, Vol. 29, Winter 04
2 only three nations: CR, 122
3 “Pakistani military”/“held the key”: CR, 63–.
4 financial transactions: Known 9/11-related money transfers were handled out of Dubai in the UAE. In anticipation of pursuit in the wake of the attacks, the al Qaeda agents involved headed for Pakistan.
5 Rawalpindi, headquarters: Fouda & Fielding, 181
6 Defense Society: ibid., 15
7 Zubaydah caught: ibid., 20, int. John Kiriakou
8 “Pakistani people”: Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 121
9 “We found”: ed. Lawrence, 71
10 “As for Pakistan”: Rashid, 138
11 called on the faithful: Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 121.
12 “the most complicated”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10
13 Kashmir: CR, 58, 63–, Coll, Ghost Wars, 292. China also controls part of Kashmir. The region is a tinderbox.
14 Hamid Gul: Rashid, 129
15 trained in camps: CR, 67, Clinton, 799, Rashid, 137, Coll, Ghost Wars, 341
16 “Whatever”: Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 121
17 security system: Coll, Ghost Wars, 341
18 “shoehorned”: Time, 8/19/08
19 “always” support: Foreign Policy Journal, 9/20/10
20 “actually were”: MFR 03012967, 10/8/03
21 additional cash: Coll, Ghost Wars, 296
22 “the most influential”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10, Salon, 10/18/03, Napoleoni, 82
23 “shadow government”: Coll, Ghost Wars, 296, NYT, 5/12/11
24 “helplessness”/tensions: MFR 04021470, 12/12/03
25 commando operation: WP, 12/19/01
26 Clinton visit/“the moon”: WP, 12/20/01, CR, 183, 503n64
27 “people who”/“not persuasive”: WP, 12/19/01
28 Sheehan: Benjamin & Simon, 515
29 “influential”: Clarke to Rice, 1/25/01
30 “loss of urgency”: Tenet, 139
31 “Full Monty”: NYT, 5/12/11.
32 foreknowledge: The authors have seen no evidence of Pakistani involvement in 9/11. Soon after publication of the 9/11 Commission Report, however, the distinguished reporter Arnaud de Borchgrave reported that—according to an “unimpeachable source”—former Pakistani intelligence officers knew beforehand all about the September 11 attacks.” This information, de Borchgrave wrote, had reached the Commission only as its report was being printed. UPI, 8/3/04.
33 “Stone Age”: Musharraf, 201.
34 demands: There are differences between the language of Washington’s demands as rendered in Musharraf’s memoir—seemingly verbatim—and the version reproduced in the 9/11 Commission Report. Musharraf found a demand to help “destroy” bin Laden illogical, he remembered. How could the United States be so sure that bin Laden and al Qaeda were behind 9/11, he wondered, if it was still searching for evidence? Musharraf, 205, CR 331, 558n37.
35 reservations/cooperated: CR, 331, Musharraf, 206
36 “We have done”: Musharraf, 223
37 3,021: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10
38 some 700/369 handed over/bounty: Musharraf, 237, 369
39 Grenier: NYT, 5/12/11
40 best-known: Musharraf, 237–, 220, 240–.
41 “destroy”/“We have done”: Musharraf, 205, 220.
42 “still visiting”: MFR 03012967, 10/8/03
43 McFarland: Fox News, 1/7/11
44 “I’m convinced”: “Whatever Happened to bin Laden?,” http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com
45 “You in the West”/poll: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10
46 S Section: NYT, 5/12/11
47 “They were very”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 3/8/08
48 Better to do/officials: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10, Fox News, 1/7/11
49 “We will kill”: transcript, 2nd presidential debate, 10/7/08
50 no statements: NYT, 10/2/10
51 “I think”: transcript, Meet the Press, NBC News, 8/15/10
52 audio messages/still shaped: NYT, 10/2/10
53 “senior NATO”: CNN, 10/18/10
54 “sightings”/“years”: NY Daily News, 10/18/10.
55 intelligence: In late November 2010, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki said in an interview that he thought bin Laden was moving to and fro across the Pakistani/Afghan border, communicating by messenger, and still giving orders. “I think they should find him,” Turki said, “I think the United States should call the countries that are of interest, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, China, and set a plan in motion to capture or—or eliminate him.” Transcript, int. of Turki, Situation Room, CNN, 11/17/10.
56 “launched”: Courrier International (France), 5/5/11
57 bulletin/Post: breaking news alerts, WP, 5/1/11
58 Tonight/Jubilant: text of Obama address, Telegraph (U.K.), 5/2/11, WP, 5/2/11
59 long article: New Yorker, 8/8/11
60 Qadir: ints./corr. Shaukat Qadir, “Operation Geronimo,” draft paper by Shaukat Qadir, The National (Pakistan), 3/16/12, Daily Beast, 3/30/12
61 commission: CNN, 4/18/12
62 Abbottabad: Musharraf, 39–, Independent (U.K.), 5/4/11, Weekly Standard, 5/2/11, AP, 5/2/11
63 “involved”/“inconceivable”/“whether there”: Financial Times, 5/4/11, Spectator, 5/7/11, LAT, 5/8/11
64 “was not anywhere”: Independent (U.K.), 5/4/11
65 “a bit amazing”: AP, 5/2/11
66 al-Kuwaiti: e.g., New Yorker, 8/8/11
67 Musharraf on al-Libi: Musharraf, 258–, 221
68 “made a”: The National (Pakistan), 3/16/12
69 “It was decided”: Irish Times, 5/5/11
70 “a few minutes”: AP, 5/2/11
71 under surveillance?: Telegraph (U.K.), 5/4/11.
72 Bush/Musharraf deal reported, et seq.: Guardian (U.K.), 5/9/11. The authors are unaware of any response by either the U.S. administration or Prime Minister Gilani to the report that there had been a deal in place. The All Pakistan Muslim League, however, posted a legal notice denying the reported deal by Musharraf (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150198113099339).
73 Musharraf denial: Indian Express, 5/10/11.
74 OBL death: Readers seeking the most up-to-date, authoritative, independent account should consult Peter Bergen’s 2012 book Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden—from 9/11 to Abbottabad (NY: Crown, 2012), which reached the authors only as this paperback edition was going to press.
AFTERWORD
1 “We are sure”: Miller & Stone with Mitchell, 187
2 “the noblest”: AP, 9/23/09
3 “Palestine”: ed. Lawrence, 9
4 “Crusaders’ ”: ibid., 17
5 “theft”/“paltry”: ibid., 163
6 “have surrendered”: ibid., 163, 171, and Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 155
7 “Rage against”: excerpt from Rock the Casbah, in NYT, 8/1/11
8 $144: AP, 9/28/01, NYT, 10/14/01
9 $100: ed. Lawrence, 272
10 $146: BBC News, 7/3/08
11 $103: Detroit Free Press, 4/24/12
12 permitted: Lacey, Inside the Kingdom, 291, Guardian (U.K.), 4/30/03
13 a constant: see ed. Lawrence, 4, & refs., Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 99, 153, & refs.
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br /> 14 motivation: see pp. 233, 276–77, and 279–80
15 “We wanted”: Bergen, OBL I Know, 225
16 bled: ibid., 316, bin Ladens & Sasson, 177, CR, 191
17 “I am rejoicing”: ed. Lawrence, 208
18 90,000, etc.: BBC, 5/17/12
19 second only: NYT, 7/24/10, CNN, 7/20/10
20 Brown: http://costofwar.org
21 some believe: e.g., “Bin Laden Is a Dying Brand,” 1/7/10, www.businessinsider.com
22 Pew: “Muslim Publics Divided on Hamas and Hezbollah,” 12/2/10, http://pewglobal.org
23 Aulaqi: Guardian, 9/30/11
24 same fate: “The Year of the Drone,” www.newamericafoundation.net
25 were arraigned: Observer (U.K.), 5/6/12, Telegraph (U.K.), 6/6/12
26 “renaissance”/“Tuesday”/“terrified”: Guardian (U.K.), International Herald Tribune, 6/17/11
27 pastor/Qur’an: NYT, 4/1, 4/2/11, NY Daily News, 4/2/11, Irish Times, 4/2, 4/4, 4/6/11
28 new tower: WSJ, 3/30/12, inhabitat.com
29 mosque: Washington Times, 8/18/10, WSJ, 8/15/10, NYT, 7/13/10, 8/21/10, 4/1/11, press release, 5/24/10, www.911familiesforamerica.org, “Proposed Muslim Community Center Near Ground Zero,” 5/21/10, www.huffingtonpost.com, Christian Science Monitor, 9/22/11
30 Museum/remains/disagreements: press release, 12/11/09, National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum, AP, 8/10/10, NYT, 4/1/11, 5/12/11, AP, 4/3/11, NY Daily News, 3/4/12, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2/10/12, press release, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 2/12
31 Phoenix: Arizona Daily Star, 4/2/11, Yuma Sun, 3/29/11
32 Aeneid: NYT, 4/1, 4/6, 4/8/11.
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