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Foreign Press Center Briefing with Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, February 28, 2001; “Bin Laden full of praise for attack on USS Cole at son’s wedding,” Agence France Presse, March 1, 2001.

25 Borzou Daraghi, “Financing Terror,” Money, November 2001.

26 Jane Mayer, “The House of bin Laden,” The New Yorker, November 12, 2001.

27 Daniel Golden, et al., “Bin Laden family is tied to US group,” The Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2001; Michael Dobbs & John Ward Anderson, “A Fugitive’s Splintered Family Tree,” The Washington Post, September 30, 2001; Kurt Eichenwald, “Bin Laden family liquidates holdings with Carlyle Group,” The New York Times, October 26, 2001.

28 Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of The Carlyle Group; Greg Schneider, “Connections and then some,” The Washington Post, March 16, 2003.

29 Elsa Walsh, “The Prince: How the Saudi Ambassador became Washington’s indispensable operator,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2003.

30 Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Crown, 2003.

31 James Rupert, “US-Saudi relations were built on oil, security—and secrecy,” The Washington Post, August 9, 1990.

32 Robert G. Kaiser & David Ottaway, “Oil for security fueled close ties,” The Washington Post, February 11, 2002.

33 Elsa Walsh, “The Prince: How the Saudi Ambassador became Washington’s indispensable operator,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2003.

34 Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Crown, 2003.

35 Tim Shorrock, “Crony capitalism goes global,” The Nation, April 1, 2002; Warren Richey, “New snags in US-Saudi ties play to bin Laden,” Christian Science Monitor, October 29, 2001.

36 Oliver Burkeman, “The winners: The Ex-President’s Club,” The Guardian, October 31, 2001; Leslie Wayne, “Elder Bush in big GOP cast toiling for top equity firm,” The New York Times, March 5, 2001.

37 Robert Kaiser, “Enormous wealth spilled into American coffers,” The Washington Post, February 11, 2002.

38 David Sharp, “Former President pulls off secret birthday bash,” The Associated Press, June 11, 2000.

39 Elsa Walsh, “The Prince: How the Saudi Ambassador became Washington’s indispensable operator,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2003; Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, “A legal counterattack,” Newsweek, April 16, 2003.

40 Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Crown, 2003.

41 Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, “Table 4.10: United States—Oil Imports, 1991-2002 (Million Barrels per Day).”

42 Amnesty International Report 2003, “Saudi Arabia,” www.amnesty.org.

43 “Saudi beheaded for shooting compatriot to death,” The Associated Press, November 13, 2001; Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Crown, 2003.

44 Elisabeth Bumiller, “Saudi tells Bush US must temper backing of Israel,” The New York Times, April 26, 2002.

45 Kathy Gannon, “Bin Laden reportedly ailing,” The Associated Press, March 25, 2000.

46 Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC, November 19, 2001; interview with Michael Griffin, author Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan (Pluto, May 2001). For more on Osama’s history with dialysis, see John F. Burns, “Pakistanis say bin Laden may be dead of disease,” The New York Times, January 19, 2002.

47 Robert Baer, “The fall of the House of Saud,” The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003.

48 Ahmed Rashid, “The Taliban: Exporting Extremism,” Foreign Affairs, November 1999.

49 Susan Schmidt & Bill Miller, “Homeland Security Department to oversee visa program,” The Washington Post, August 6, 2002.

50 Jane Mayer, “The House of bin Laden,” The New Yorker November 12, 2001; Patrick E. Tyler, “Fearing harm, bin Laden kin fled from US,” The New York Times, September 30, 2001; Kevin Cullen, “Bin Laden kin flown back to Saudi Arabia,” The Boston Globe, September 20, 2001; Katty Kay, “How FBI helped bin Laden family flee US,” The London Times, October 1, 2001.

51 Kathy Steele, “Phantom flight from Florida,” The Tampa Tribune, October 5, 2001.

52 Fox Butterfield,