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354 Even in her previous incarnation: Yvonne Ridley, “Pop Culture in the Name of Islam,” DailyMuslims, April 24, 2006, http://yvonneridley .org/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=15.
354 Ridley wrapped herself: Yvonne Ridley, “How I Came to Love the Veil,” October 31, 2006, http://yvonneridley.org/index2.php?option=com _content&do_pdf=1&id=29; Rachel Cooke, “Free Radical,” Observer, July 6, 2008.
355 Ridley was also: Richard Kerbaj, “Amnesty Is Damaged by Taliban Link,” Sunday Times, February 7, 2010.
355 The star of “Torture Week”: Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantanamo and Back (New York: Free Press, 2006); Tim Golden, “Jihadist or Victim: Ex-Detainee Makes a Case,” New York Times, June 15, 2006.
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357 One of the favorite: Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (New York: Knopf, 2003).
358 George Will dined: George Will, “Muslim Dissident Has Warning for the West,” Chicago Sun-Times, September 21, 2006.
358 Ayaan’s most influential: One of many books dedicated to unraveling the history of the neoconservative movement and the links among its leaders is Justin Vaïsse, Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2010).
359 She told De Volkskrant: Steffie Kouters, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: In die VS moet ik drie keer nadenken voor ik wat roep,” De Volkskrant, September 23, 2006.
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360 Five years had passed: Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (New York: Doubleday, 2008), pp. 324–326.
361 “In 2002, Ammar directed”: “ ‘Ali ‘Abd ‘al-Aziz ‘Ali,” at www.defense .gov/pdf/detaineebiographies1.pdf .
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362 Starting in January 2007: Ayaan’s conversation with Clive Crook took place on July 26, 2007, at the Aspen Ideas Festival; see www.youtube .com/watch?v=HLmkHMBsls4.
362 With very few exceptions: Anne Applebaum, “The Fight for Muslim Women: A Feisty Memoir by a Controversial Champion of Female Rights,” Washington Post, February 4, 2007; William Grimes, “No Rest for Feminist Fighting Islam,” New York Times, February 14, 2007; Anita Quigley, “Female Rushdie Slams Sheik,” Daily Telegraph, May 31, 2007; Natasha Walter, “Women: Life Force,” Guardian, March 3, 2007; Caroline Glick, “Our World: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Challenge to Humanity,” Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2007.
363 Only a handful: Ian Buruma, “Against Submission,” New York Times Book Review, March 4, 2007; Timothy Garton-Ash, “Islam in Europe,” The New York Review of Books, October 5, 2006; “A Critic of Islam: Dark Secrets,” The Economist, February 8, 2007.
363 The few Muslims: Lorraine Ali, “The Controversial Memoir of a Muslim Woman,” Newsweek, February 26, 2007; Irfan Yusuf, “Islam and the West: An Unreliable Narrator,” New Matilda, July 25, 2007; Taslima Nasreen, “A Long Journey to Be Herself,” Outlook India, April 2, 2007; “Three Cheers for Ayaan,” Outlook India, August 28, 2006.
364 In Hollywood: Diane Clehane, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Author’s Memoir Receives Critical Kudos,” Variety, July 30, 2007.
364 “The issue of freedom”: Ibid.
365 Some members of the clan: Juha-Pekka Tikka, “Ayaan Hirsi Alin outo Suomi-yhteys,” Ilta-Sanomat, October 9, 2007; Tikka, “Rajatarkastus selvittaa Hirsi Ali–mysteeria,” Ilta-Sanomat, October 15, 2007.
365 “I am a happy individual now,” Neely Tucker, “ ‘Infidel’ Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali Brings Her Incendiary Views to Washington,” Washington Post, March 7, 2007.
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367 In Karachi the families: “Petition Seeks Information When and How al-Qaeda Leader Shifted to U.S.,” Baluchistan Times, April 20, 2007.
367 The CIA was still: Carlotta Gall, “Freed Suspects in Pakistan Point to Secret Detentions; About 400 Men Still Missing, Lawyers Say,” New York Times, December 20, 2007.
368 From Amsterdam: Jane Perlez, “Pakistani Wife Embodies Cause of ‘Disappeared,’ ” New York Times, July 19, 2007.
368 Musharraf’s government initially stonewalled: “Pakistan Judge Rejects Bail for Man Opposing Detentions by Spy Agencies,” Associated Press, February 3, 2007.
368 Then Chief Justice Chaudhry: Munir Ahmed, “Pakistan Says 10 of 41 Missing Men Are Free Amid Complaints of Disappearances,” Associated Press, December 1, 2006.
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369 In Holland, it had been: Andrew Williams, “Sixty Seconds: Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Metro, February 6, 2007. Robert Spencer published his comments at www.jihadwatch.org/2007/02/agreeing-and-disagreeing-with-ayaan-hirsi-ali.html; see also Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2006; Beila Rabinowitz’s comments for Militant Islam Monitor, www.militantislammonitor .org/article/id/2207.
370 “It’s not a war on terror”: See Ayaan’s interview with Clive Crook, July 26, 2007, at the Aspen Ideas Festival; see www.youtube.com /watch?v=HLmkHMBsl/4s.
370 Interviewing her in London: David Cohen, “Violence Is Inherent in Islam—It is a Cult of Death,” Evening Standard, February 7, 2007.
371 “Islam, even in”: Joseph Rago, “Free Radical: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infuriates Muslims and Discomfits Liberals,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2007.
371 She wrote in Newsweek: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Setting Themselves Apart,” Newsweek International, November 27, 2006.
371 In the New York Times: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “An Honor Worth Defending,” New York Times, June 25, 2007.
372 She argued in: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Hearts and Minds in Turkey,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2007.
372 She maintained that Iraq: Joel Whitney, “Infidel,” Guernica, February 2007.
372 Nor did she respond: Nadje al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).
372 “Talking to Iran”: Rogier van Bakel, “The Trouble Is the West,” Reason, November 2007.
373 Her prescription: Shirin Ebadi, interviewed by Danielle Castellani Perelli, “Intellectuals like Hirsi Ali Play into the Mullahs’ Hands,” Reset DOC, March 9, 2007, www.resetdoc.org/story/00000000350. Another Iranian intellectual who advocated a different approach was Akbar Ganji, “Half a Man: Notes on Gender Apartheid in Iran,” Boston Review, November–December 2007.
373 In the end: Thomas E. Ricks describes the AEI’s role in coming up with a new strategy in The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 (New York: Penguin, 2009), p. 159.
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375 And in June 2007: Jane Perlez, “Islamic School Taunts Authorities,” New York Times, June 25, 2007.
375 Musharraf’s government ignored: Ali Dayan Hasan, “Pakistan’s Moderates Are Beaten in Public,” New York Times, June 15, 2005.
376 Indirect evidence later surfaced: L. Thomas Kucharski, “Forensic Evaluation: Aafia Siddiqui,” July 2, 2009, p. 6.
376 Among the papers later found: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 256, August 19, 2010, p. 29.
376 The storming of the Lal Mosque: Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (New York: Viking, 2008), p. 379.
376 In theory, Musharraf: Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 323.
377 President Musharraf declared: United Nations, “Report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the Facts and Circumstances of the Assassination of Former Pakistani Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto,” April 15, 2010.
377 The glamorous Harvard graduate: Qandeel Siddique, “The Red Mosque Operation and Its Impact on the Growth of the Pakistani Taliban,” Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, October 8, 2008.
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378 The Dutch government had agreed: Ayaan’s lawyer, Britta Bohler, released the letters Minister of Justice Ernst Hirsch Ballin wrote to Ayaan revoki
ng her security to the press. See Marlise Simons, “Critic of Islam Confronts Dutch over Guards,” New York Times, October 4, 2007; David Charter, “Bodyguards Taken from Former MP Who Fled After Islamic Death Threats,” Times, October 3, 2007.
379 The U.S. secretary of state: “Noted Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali Receives Her Green Card,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. www.uscis .gov/files/pressrelease/HirsiAliRlease25Sep07.pdf.
379 Her friends accused the Dutch: Christopher Hitchens, “The Price of Freedom: If the Dutch Government Abandons Ayaan Hirsi Ali, America Should Welcome Her,” Slate, October 8, 2008, www.slate.com /id/2175458; Marlise Simons, “Critic of Islam Confronts Dutch over Bodyguards”; Anne Applebaum, “Double Dutch: The Dutch Government Once Again Threatens to Abandon Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Slate, www .slate.com/default.aspx?id=3944&qt=ayaan; Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie, “Abandoned to Fanatics,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2008.
380 The media attacks: Alies Pegtel, “De creatie van een mythe,” HP/De Tijd, Christmas 2006; “Morning Newspapers,” Expatica, October 11, 2007; Gerald Traufetter, “The Odyssey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” Der Spiegel Online, May 12, 2007, www.spiegel.de/international /world/0,1518,521546,00.html.
381 The Dutch government said: “Parliament Angry with Hirsi Ali’s Lawyer,” Expatica, October 10, 2007; “Security of Hirsi Ali Not Extended,” Expatica, October 11, 2007, www.expatica.com/nl/common /search.html?page=2&phrase=ayaan%20hirsi%20ali&nl=on.
381 Elsevier magazine: Traufetter, “The Odyssey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.”
381 The battle of the bodyguards: “Make Hirsi Ali an Honorary French Citizen,” Expatica, October 23, 2007; “Ayaan Hirsi Ali Seeks Protection in France,” Expatica, November 2, 2007; “France Won’t Protect Hirsi Ali,” Expatica, February 21, 2008, www.expatica.com/nl /common/search.html?page=2&phrase=ayaan%20hirsi%20ali&nl=on.
382 She and her friends: “EU Politicians Make Empty Promises to Hirsi Ali,” Expatica, February 15, 2008; “The Netherlands Not Being Petty Towards Hirsi Ali,” Expatica, February 12, 2008, www.expatica .com/nl/common/search.html?page=2&phrase=ayaan%20hirsi%20ali&nl=on.
382 So she returned: “Three Funds for Hirsi Ali,” Expatica, October 17, 2007, www.expatica.com/nl/common/search.html?page=2&phrase =ayaan%20hirsi%20ali&nl=on; “Foundation for the Freedom of Expression,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Freedom_of_Expression.
382 Harris campaigned vigorously: Jerry Adler, “Bankrolling Ali’s Asylum,” Newsweek, December 3, 2007; Sam Harris, “Security Trust,” October 15, 2008, www.samharris.org/site/security_trust/.
383 Ayaan and a group: The list of board members is taken from the AHA Foundation’s 2007 IRS Form 902. The AHA Foundation’s Web site is www.theahafoundation.org.
383 It was the first time: The Centre for Social Cohesion’s studies can be found at www.socialcohesion.co.uk. Its founding grant is described at “Centre for Social Cohesion,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre _for_Social_Cohesion.
383 The AHA Foundation, by contrast: “What Do We Know? Facts and Figures on the Circumstances Affecting Muslim Girls and Women in the United States,” The AHA Foundation, December 18, 2009, www .theahafoundation.org/system/include/resources/files/AHA2009 WhatDoWeKnow.pdf.
383 IRS records showed: AHA’s 2008 and 2009 tax returns are available at www2.guidestar.org/organizations/33-1185369/aha-foundation.aspx#.
384 Adding several new board members: The new board members are listed on the foundation’s 2009 tax returns. Elise Jordan’s position is mentioned in Pamela Paul, “The Party, in Exile,” New York Times, June 11, 2010.
384 Its output nonetheless: Studies and other materials published by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) are available at www.wluml.org.
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385 On the evening of January 22, 2008: S. H. Faruqi, “Salient Features of the Visit of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui at the Residence of Her Uncle Mr. S. H. Faruqi at Islamabad, Pakistan on 22st to 24th of January, 2008,” e-mailed to the author October 11, 2008.
385 “She said she wanted”: Robert Fisk, “The Mysterious Grey Lady of Bagram,” Independent, March 19, 2010.
386 He told the Guardian’s: Declan Walsh, “The Mystery of Aafia Siddiqui,” Guardian, November 24, 2009.
387 “That was her main point”: Ibid.
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389 She continued to be: Paul Berman waged a crusade against Ayaan’s alleged critics that began with his 28,000-word article “Who’s Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?” The New Republic, June 4, 2007, and culminated in a book, The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy over Islamism and the Press (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2010). Pascal Bruckner, “Enlightenment Fundamentalism or Racism of the Anti-racists?” and other contributions to the debate about Ayaan can be seen at www .signandsight.com/features/1146.html.
390 Eventually he wrote: Ron Rosenbaum, “Bonfire of the Intellectuals: Paul Berman’s Outraged Attack on Hirsi Ali’s Attackers,” Slate, March 25, 2010, www.slate.com/id/2248809/; Lee Siegel, “Who’s Right? Who’s Left? Who Cares?” New York Observer, May 11, 2010.
390 It was left: Bassam Tibi, “Europeanisation, Not Islamisation,” March 22, 2007, www.signandsight.com/features/1258.html.
390 Ayaan, by contrast: Joshua Keating, “Turkish Cleric Gulen Tops Intellectuals List,” Foreign Policy, June 23, 2008, http://blog.foreignpolicy .com/posts/2008/06/23/turkish_cleric_guelen_tops_intellectuals_list.
391 In June 2008: Claudia Anderson, “Parallel Lives: Frederick Douglass, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Flight to Freedom,” The Weekly Standard, June 23, 2008.
391 Ayaan had recently received: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (New York: Free Press, 2010), pp. 5–6.
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393 Ridley hasn’t identified: “Binyam Mohamed in Conversation with Moazzam Begg,” March 26, 2009, http://old.cageprisoners.com/articles .php?id=28464.
394 Neither Binyam Mohamed: Thomas Joscelyn, “The False Martyr,” The Weekly Standard, February 20, 2009.
394 Binyam Mohamed said: “Binyam Mohamed in Conversation with Moazzam Begg.”
395 Striking the themes: “Unidentified Pak Woman Detained at Bagram Airbase for More Than Four Years,” Asian News International, July 7, 2008.
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397 Ayaan often said: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 62.
397 She wrote in Nomad: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (New York: Free Press, 2010), pp. 5–6.
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399 It was just getting dark: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 258-2, August 19, 2010, pp. 13–22. This document contains portions of the FBI reports on their interviews with witnesses to Aafia’s arrest and imprisonment at Ghazni. I have also drawn on the testimony of eyewitnesses given at the trial.
399 The Afghan government: “Suicide Bomber Kills 16 in Southwest Afghanistan,” Ria Novosti, May 5, 2008; Ashfaq Yusufzai, “Becoming a Suicide Bomber,” Interpress News Service, July 21, 2008.
400 Police commander Ghani Khan: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 258-2, August 19, 2010, pp. 15, 22.
401 Threadcraft later testified: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, January 19, 2010, pp. 239–256.
403 At the Ghazni police station: Ibid., pp. 86–87.
403 The governor’s office: The videotape of the press conference is at www .youtube.com/watch?v=23yT7soyV48.
404 After the press conference: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, January 19, 2010, pp. 131–143.
404 While Qadeer was dealing: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, January 25, 2010, pp. 1363–1399.
405 Sergeant Kenneth J. Cook: Ibid., p. 1,200.
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409 Ayaan rarely mentioned: David Pryce-Jones, “Europe’s Loss, America’s Gain,” National Review, August 28, 2006.
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411 Both Great Britain’s: Asian Human Rights Commission, “Pakistan/USA: A Lady Doctor Remains Missing with Her Three Children Five Years After Her Arrest,” Urgent Appeals Case AHRC-UAC-167-2008, www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2008/2947/.
412 As for Aafia: United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui, Document 256, August 19, 2010, pp. 1–34.
412 A few hours before dawn: “Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri May Be Dead,” CBS News: The Saturday Early Show, August 2, 2008.
413 Then on Sunday: Farah Stockman, “Pakistani Scientist Alive, in Custody; FBI Linked Her to Al Qaeda in Hub,” Boston Globe, August 3, 2008.
413 On Monday: Christine Kearney, “Pakistani Woman in US Court for Assault on Troops,” Reuters, August 5, 2008.
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414 afterward correcting him: Rebecca Weisser, “Prophet Faces a Polemic,” Australian, August 2, 2008.
414 Ayaan was stopping: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (New York: Free Press, 2010), pp. 7–8.
415 She found her father: Ibid., pp. 10–12.
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416 Pakistani and Western journalists: Alison Hoffman, “NY Terror Trial of Pakistani Woman May Lead to First Investigation of US Secret Intelligence Techniques,” Jerusalem Post, September 7, 2008.
417 A mass of secret: “US Embassy Cables: Bagram Officials Deny Detaining Aafia Siddiqui,” Guardian, December 1, 2010.
417 By chance: Tom Hayes, “NY Charges for Woman in Afghan Military Shooting,” Associated Press, August 5, 2008.
417 Sharp came out: Farah Stockman, “Activist Turned Extremist, US Says; Ex-Hub Woman Tied to Al Qaeda,” Boston Globe, August 12, 2008.
418 But U.S. officials: Brian Ross, “Alleged Mata Hari of al-Qaeda Indicted,” ABC News, “The Blotter,” September 2, 2008; James Bone, “Neuroscientist ‘Had List of New York Targets,’ ” Times, September 4, 2008.
418 “She is the most significant”: Alison Gendar, Jose Martinez, and Stephanie Gaskell, “Pakistani Scientist Busted, Called Most Significant Capture in Five Years,” New York Daily News, August 12, 2008.
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