253 One of KSM’s uncles: Mansoor Khan, “Mystery Still Shrouds Dr. Afia’s Whereabouts,” Nation, August 6, 2008.
253 Aafia described: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 256, August 19, 2010, p. 8.
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254 The Liberal Party asked: Alies Pegtel, “Van links naar rechts,” HP/De Tijd, February 9, 2007.
255 She seemed to regard: Gerald Traufetter, “The Odyssey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Der Spiegel, May 12, 2007.
256 Ayaan initially asked: Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 191–192; Deborah Scroggins, “The Dutch-Muslim Culture War,” The Nation, June 27, 2005.
256 “proxies put forward”: Andrew Anthony, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Taking the Fight to Islam,” Observer, January 29, 2007.
256 “I called it”: Alexander Linklater, “Danger Woman,” Guardian, May 17, 2005.
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258 Family lawyers later claimed: International Justice Network, “Aafia Siddiqui: Just the Facts,” February 14, 2011, www.ijnetwork.org/ijn -news-newsroom-53/240-ijnetwork-releases-report-aafia-siddiqui -just-the-facts, p. 7.
259 Her son took her: The redacted text of the report on Ismat’s interviews with the FBI on May 24, 2003, and July 1, 2003, is in United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 258-I, filed August 19, 2010, pp. 6–11.
260 Ismat was still: Evan Thomas, “The Enemy Within,” Newsweek, June 23, 2003.
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264 Ayaan often spoke of: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women (New York: Free Press, 2006), pp. 82–83.
264 Ayaan would later tell: Maaike Beekers, “Ayaanlaanse Toestanden,” Red, June 2010.
265 Ayaan sometimes seemed: Alexander Linklater, “Danger Woman,” Guardian, May 17, 2005.
265 FGM had been illegal: Bertine Krol, “Fighting Mutilation,” Radio Netherlands, May 12, 2004.
266 For several years: Ilse van Liempt, “Then One Day They All Moved to Leicester,” Population, Space and Place, December 30, 2009.
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270 The Bush administration knew: Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy (London: Atlantic Books, 2007), pp. 357–379; Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2001), pp. 236–237.
271 Aafia’s uncle: S. H. Faruqi, “Letters to the Editor,” Dawn, March 30, 2004, and May 2, 2004.
272 On May 26, 2004: Dale Lezon, “Former Houston Resident Sought as al-Qaida ‘Fixer,’ ” Houston Chronicle, May 27, 2004; Daniel Klaidman, Evan Thomas, and Michael Isikoff, “Suspect Motives,” Newsweek, June 7, 2004.
273 The following day: Muhammed Anis, “Pakistan Interior Minister Denies Terror Suspect Turned Over to U.S.,” News, May 30, 2004.
273 Then, on June 1: Mac Daniel, “Suspect’s Kin Seek Help Finding Her,” Boston Globe, June 2, 2004.
273 The fog of rumors: Glenn Simpson, “The UN Ties al-Qaeda Figure to Diamonds,” Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2004.
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274 Ayaan’s political party made good: Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 192–198.
275 Ayaan opposed the decision: Alies Pegtel, “Van Zomergast to onderduiker,” HP/De Tijd, February 16, 2007.
275 She often said: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 26.
275 “In reality”: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel: My Life (New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 307.
275 Her battles in Parliament: Jutta Chorus and Ahmet Olgun, In godsnaam: Het jaar van Theo van Gogh (Amsterdam: Contact, 2005), pp. 115–117.
275 One day Ayaan was invited: “Ebru Umar to Muslim Politician Hirsi Ali: ‘You turned your Private War into a National War’ and said ‘To Hell with the VVD,’ ” Militant Islam Monitor, May 15, 2006, www .militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1911.
276 Theo van Gogh: Assaad E. Azzi, Xenia Chryssochoou, Bert Klandermans, and Bernd Simon, Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies (New York: Wiley, 2010), p. 232.
276 A bit later she flew: Chorus and Olgun, In godsnaam, p. 28.
276 The filmmaker had just left: Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin, 2006), pp. 100–101.
276 When Ayaan got back: Chorus and Olgun, In godsnaam, p. 35.
277 Ayaan knew the film: Ibid., p. 148.
278 While still working: Ibid., pp. 151–152.
278 A De Volkskrant poll: “Griezelen uit onbegrip. Angst voor Moslims,” De Volkskrant, June 23, 2004.
278 Now when Ayaan: Chorus and Olgun, In godsnaam, p. 54.
279 A rap song: “Ayaan Hirsi Ali doelwit Haagse rapgroep,” Algemeen Dagblad, June 30, 2004.
279 In Amsterdam West: Albert Benschop, “Jihad in the Netherlands: Chronicle of a Political Murder Foretold,” trans. Connie Menting, University of Amsterdam, first published 2004, modified 2007, www .sociosite.org/jihad_nl_en.php.
279 The videos: Rudolph Peters examined the videos found in Bouyeri’s computer and apartment for his report to the court, “De Ideologische en Religieuze Ontwikkeling van Mohammed B.,” www .sociosite.org/jihad/peters_rapport.pdf. Groen and Kranenberg also interviewed members of the group about the effect of the videos; see Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg, Women Warriors for Allah: An Islamist Network in the Netherlands, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), pp. 74–81.
280 He wrote tract after tract: Albert Benschop, “Jihad in the Netherlands: Chronicle of a Political Murder Foretold.”
280 Bouyeri narrowed his options: Ibid.
281 All the members: Groen and Kranenberg, Women Warriors for Allah, p. 67.
281 Bouyeri had fallen: Ibid., pp. 51–53.
282 Ayaan has said: See, e.g., “Dutch MP to Make Gay Islam Film,” BBC News, November 17, 2005.
283 “He simply asked”: Hirsi Ali, Infidel, p. 315.
283 But the press: Three articles appeared on August 28, 2004, in NRC Handelsblad: Jutta Chorus, “Nieuwe provocatie Hirsi Ali”; Jutta Chorus, “Ze zullen zien dat ik gelijk heb Een half jaar met Ayaan Hirsi Ali”; and Daniela Hooghiemstra, “Ongekroonde koninginnen.”
283 Then, in September: Benschop, “Jihad in the Netherlands.”
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284 “It seems that this family”: Kamran Khan, “Al-Qaeda Arrest in June Opened Valuable Leads,” Washington Post, August 4, 2004.
285 Aafia almost certainly knew: Jarret Brachman, Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2009), details Babar Ahmad’s role in the establishment of www.azzam.com on pp. 122–123.
285 Noting that the Pakistani government: Syed Saleem Shahzad, “Pakistan Produces the Goods, Again,” Asia Times, August 4, 2004.
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287 Ayaan went to see: Jutta Chorus and Ahmet Olgun, In godsnaam: Het jaar van Theo van Gogh (Amsterdam: Contact, 2005), pp. 210–211.
287 Back in Holland: Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen, “ ‘PLEASE, GO WAKE UP!’: Submission, Hirsi Ali, and the ‘War on Terror’ in the Netherlands,” Feminist Media Studies 5, no. 3 (2005).
288 But as the journalist: Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 183.
288 On the Internet: Albert Benschop, “Jihad in the Netherlands: Chronicle of a Political Murder Foretold,” trans. Connie Menting, University of Amsterdam, first published 2004, modified 2007, www.sociosite .org/jihad_nl_en.php.
289 It isn’t certain: Ibid.
289 Bouyeri wrote a farewell letter: Ibid.
290 On the night of November 1: Ibid.
291 Ayaan was in Parliament: Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg, Women Warriors for Allah: An Islamist Network in the Netherlands, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelph
ia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), pp. 67–68.
292 While Cohen attended: Arthur Max, “Dutch Cabinet Gets Its First Muslims,” Guardian, February 21, 2007.
292 Bouyeri reserved: Benschop, “Jihad in the Netherlands.”
292 In the days after: Jaap van Donselaar and Peter R. Rodrigues, “Ontwikkelingen na de moord op Van Gogh,” Anne Frank Stichting, Onderzoek en Documentatie, Universiteit Leiden, Departement Bestuurskunde, Leiden, December 2004.
292 Ayaan was told: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel: My Life (New York: Free Press, 2007), pp. 326–327.
Part III: Being Regarded
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297 Big, brash Karachi: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, January 28, 2010, p. 1696.
299 Pearl’s horrible murder: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Who Killed Daniel Pearl? trans. James X. Mitchell (South Yarra, Australia: Hardie Grant Books, 2005), pp. 298–299, 342–351.
300 I had also read: Asra Q. Nomani, “Who Really Killed Danny Pearl?” Salon, October 22, 2004, www.asranomani.com/Writings.aspx ?p=P.
302 In the days after: Asra Q. Nomani, “The Taliban Ladies’ Auxiliary,” Salon, October 25, 2001, http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2001/10/25 /mujahida/.
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311 With mosques and churches: Anthony Browne, “Hatred Engulfs a Liberal Land,” Times, November 13, 2004.
311 She stayed long enough: “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Ik ga me absoluut niet aanpassen (Gerectificeerd),” NRC Handelsblad, November 29, 2004; “Dutch Politician Plans New Film Criticizing Islam—Report,” Reuters, November 29, 2004.
312 When she finally returned: David Rennie and Joan Clements, “Dutch Muslim MP Out of Hiding After Death Threats,” Daily Telegraph, January 19, 2004.
312 At first everyone vied: Deborah Scroggins, “The Dutch-Muslim Culture War,” The Nation, June 27, 2005.
313 When a group of Muslims: Paul Gallagher, “Dutch Court Rules in Row over MP’s Film on Islam,” Reuters, March 15, 2005.
313 In a series of open letters: Tom Lanoye et al., Brieven van Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2005).
313 Herman Philipse was so infuriated: Herman Philipse, Verlichtingsfundamentalisme? Open brief over Verlichting en fundamentalisme aan Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Mede bestemd voor Piet Hein Donner (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2005).
314 Holland’s best-loved historian: Geert Mak, Gedoemd tot kwetsbaarheid (Amsterdam: Johan Blaauw, 2005).
316 Donner, the minister of justice: “Threatened Dutch MP Reveals Living on Navy Base,” Reuters, February 18, 2005.
317 Donner accused Ayaan of ingratitude: Andrew Higgins, “Taking Leave: Islamist Threats to Dutch Politician Bring Chill at Home—Ms. Hirsi Ali Quits Parliament, Plans to Resettle in U.S.,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2006.
317 Van Gogh’s friend: “Ebru Umar to Muslim Politician Hirsi Ali: ‘You Turned your Private War into a National War’ and Said ‘To Hell with the VVD,’ ” Militant Islam Monitor, May 15, 2006, www .militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1911.
318 The police continued to arrest: Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg, Women Warriors for Allah: An Islamist Network in the Netherlands, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), pp. 87–91, 108.
318 Ayaan’s own Liberal Party: Christopher Caldwell, “Daughter of the Enlightenment,” The New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005.
318 Jozias van Aartsen: Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 191–192.
319 Hans Wiegel: Marc Peeperkorn and Raoul du Pré, “Hans Wiegel of Ayaan Hirsi Ali?” De Volkskrant, November 25, 2005.
319 She later compared: Steffie Kouters, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: In die VS moet ik drie keer nadenken voor ik wat roep,” Volkskrant Magazine, September 23, 2006.
319 In public she never lost: Gitit Ginat, “Freedom Fighter,” Haaretz, June 3, 2006.
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322 Marlise Simons: Marlise Simons, “Dutch Filmmaker Is Killed,” New York Times, November 3, 2004.
322 He had an abiding fear: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West (New York: Doubleday, 2009).
322 In an early article: Christopher Caldwell, “Holland Daze,” The Weekly Standard, December 27, 2004.
323 “Hirsi Ali had been dealt”: Christopher Caldwell, “Daughter of the Enlightenment,” The New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005.
323 Within days: Derek Rose, “The World Players,” New York Daily News, April 11, 2005.
323 Like Cinderella: Gerald Traufetter, “The Odyssey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Der Spiegel Online, May 12, 2007, www.spiegel.de/international /world/0,1518,521546,00.html.
324 Mohammed Bouyeri’s trial: Gregory Crouch, “Man on Trial Accepts Blame for Filmmaker’s Killing,” New York Times, July 13, 2005.
324 In Denmark the editors: See Jytte Klausen, The Cartoons That Shook the World (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008), for an analysis of the events leading up to the cartoon crisis.
325 In February 2006: Ibid., p. 41.
326 For months, various think tanks: Glenn Greenwald discusses how Richard Perle and others on the Hudson Institute and American Enterprise Institute boards were agitating for war against Iran in 2006 in A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (New York: Random House, 2008), pp. 174–175.
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331 Holland’s minister of immigration and integration: See “Dutch Judge Rejects Refugee Bid,” BBC News, April 24, 2006, http://news.bbc .co.uk/2/hi/europe/4938568.stm.
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336 The Justice Department had attempted: Michele Garcia, “Terror Suspect Can Use Operatives’ Statements,” Washington Post, November 9, 2005.
337 Once in court: United States of America v. Uzair Paracha, November 17, 2005, p. 1059, and November 21, 2005, pp. 1326–1327.
337 In the end: “Pakistani Gets 30 Years for Aiding al-Qaeda Operative,” New York Times, July 21, 2006.
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339 A Somali-born reporter: Rageh Omaar describes his attempts to contact Ayaan in Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain (New York: Viking, 2006), pp. 50–59.
339 For months she had been: Twan Huys, “The Fortune Hunter,” Nova, May 2006.
339 Van Dongen began: What follows is taken from the transcript of van Dongen’s interview with Ayaan on April 27, 2006.
341 The ex-husband: Osman Musse Quarre can be heard on tape in “The Holy Ayaan,” Zembla, VARA Television, May 11, 2006.
342 Later that same day: Mischa Cohen, Sander Donkers, Carolina Lo Galbo, and Rober van de Griend, “Bij de buren van mevrouw Magan,” Vrij Nederland, May 27, 2006.
342 She was already talking: Huys, “The Fortune Hunter.”
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343 Where was Aafia?: The main court documents are the FBI’s FD-302 reports of their interrogations of Aafia contained in United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, document 256, August 19, 2010, plus the psychiatric evaluations by Thomas L. Kucharski, Leslie Powers, and Sally Johnson.
343 She said that in 2004 or 2005: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, document 256, August 19, 2010, pp. 16–17.
343 Abu Lubaba was then writing: Abu Lubaba’s columns can be read in Urdu at http://zarbpk.blogspot.com/search/label/Boltay%20Naqshay %20-%20Authentic%20Researched%20Articles.
344 He comes across: The Internet discussion about Mufti Abu Lubaba Shah Mansoor is at www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?46694 -Dajjal-by-Mufti-Abu-Lubaba-Shah-Mansoor&p=386644&viewfull=1.
344 Aafia told the FBI: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 256, August 19, 2010, p. 11.
344 At Abu Lubaba’s request: Ibid., pp. 9–10.
345 Perhaps the coconspirators’ paranoia: Ibid., pp. 9, 17.
345 She said that to get away: Ibid., p. 17.
345 Among the papers: Ibid., p. 30.
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346 Ayaan’s first Sunday in New York: Brendan Bernhard, “An Enlightenment Fundamentalis
t,” New York Sun, May 3, 2006.
347 On hand to hear: Nathan Guttman, “Bush: US Ties to Israel ‘Unshakable.’ Annan, Merkel Also Address Centennial Gathering of American Jewish Committee,” Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2006.
347 With their playful: Jim Lobe, “Iran Showdown Tests Power of ‘Israel Lobby,’ ” Interpress News Service, April 12, 2006.
347 Ayaan began her speech: An audiotape of Ayaan’s acceptance speech is available at www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1591361&ct=2387665.
348 Five days before: Gary Shapiro, “Celebrating Bernard Lewis’s 90th,” New York Sun, May 9, 2006.
348 Ayaan later said: Gerald Traufetter, “Settling Scores with Old Europe,” Der Spiegel, May 22, 2006.
348 The British-born writer: Christopher Hitchens, “The Caged Virgin: Holland’s Shameful Treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Slate, May 8, 2006, www.slate.com/id/2141276/.
349 Zembla’s documentary: “The Holy Ayaan,” Zembla, VARA Television, May 11, 2006.
349 “Just watched an interesting report”: The debate about Ayaan on Expatica after the Zembla program can be read at www.expatica.com /nl/news/local_news/ayaan-hirsi-alibr-hero-or-phony-29962_28335 .html. There were hundreds of exchanges like this on Dutch Web sites. I choose this one because it was in English.
350 “Iron Rita” Verdonk: “Lying Can Lead to Loss of Asylum: Expert,” Expatica, May 12, 2006, www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news /lying-can-lead-to-loss-of-asylum-expert-29978_28350.html.
350 The following day: “MP Faces Inquiry over Naturalisation Lies,” Expatica, May 15, 2006, www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news /mp-faces-inquiry-over-naturalisation-lies-29989_28358.html.
350 To the astonishment: “MPs Order Verdonk to Reconsider Hirsi Ali’s Status,” Expatica, May 17, 2006, www.expatica.com/nl/news /local_news/mps-order-verdonk-to-reconsider-hirsi-alis-status- 30073_28432.html.
353 For at least a little while: Mak later wrote me that the fever had not broken for long, though, as Ayaan broke the intellectual ground for radical anti-Muslim and xenophobic movements everywhere in Europe and especially Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party in the Netherlands. “We are still in the middle of it.”
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