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May 12, 2003: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Thirty-four people are killed in a series of bomb attacks targeting housing for foreign nationals and a U.S. office.
May 16, 2003: Casablanca, Morocco: A series of suicide bombings strike a Spanish restaurant, a hotel, a Jewish center, and the Belgian consulate, killing thirty-three people.
August 5, 2003: South Jakarta, Indonesia: A car bomb explodes outside the JW Marriott Hotel lobby, killing twelve people and injuring over 150. The dead are four tourists and eight Indonesians.
November 15, 2003, and November 20, 2003: Istanbul, Turkey: Four car bombs explode at Jewish synagogues, killing fifty-seven and wounding over seven hundred.
2003–2008: Iraq: There are hundreds of al-Qaeda attacks in every region of Iraq, killing thousands of innocent Iraqis.
March 11, 2004: Madrid, Spain: Ten bombs explode on commuter trains in Madrid, killing over 190 people and wounding 1,800.
May 29, 2004: Khobar, Saudi Arabia: Four terrorists attack oil industry installations and the Oasis Compound, a housing compound for foreign workers. The terrorists take fifty foreign nationals hostage, killing twenty-two, some of whom have their throats slit.
June 18, 2004: Saudi Arabia: American Paul Johnson is kidnapped and held hostage and later beheaded.
July 7, 2005: London, England: Four suicide bombers attack the public transport system, killing fifty-three and wounding seven hundred.
November 9, 2005: Amman, Jordan: Simultaneous bombings in three different American-franchise hotels kill fifty-seven people and injure 120 others.
April 11, 2007: Algiers: Two bombs explode, one at a police station and the other at the office of the Algerian prime minister, killing thirty-three people.
June 2, 2008: Pakistan: The Danish embassy is struck by a car bomb, killing six people and injuring many others.
Index
abaaya, 15, 23, 26–27
burqa v., 52
Abdel Rahman, Omar, 77
Azzam and, 131
background of, 130–31, 254
as blind cleric, 130
for al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, 130–31, 308
against Jews, 131
as terrorist, 131
to U.S., 131
World Trade Center and, 131, 308–9
Abdul Rahman. See bin Laden, Abdul Rahman
Abdullah. See bin Laden, Abdullah
Abdullah, Abdullah Ahmed, 77
Abdullah, Crown Prince, 84
Aboud, Omar Mohammed Awad. See bin Laden, Omar Osama
Abu Hafs. See Atef, Mohammed accidents, 6, 45, 243–44, 259
Adel, Sayf
leaving Sudan, 139–40, 142
at Tora Bora, 161
Afghan warlords
fighting between, 155
Khalis as, 154
Afghanistan. See also Jalalabad; Kabul; Kandahar; Khost training camp; 9/11; Nourallah, Mullah; political activities; Tora Bora
bandits in, 268–69
civil war in, 149, 155
clothing in, for Osama with Omar, 175
heroin in, 158
horse story in, 33–34
map of, 146
move to, 87, 149–50, 309, 310
Mujahideen in, 72–73, 303, 304
Osama with Omar’s arrival in, 149–50, 309
political activities and, 32–36, 77–78, 303–4
poppy fields in, 158
Russia v., 177
Soviet Union in, 27, 30, 177, 303–6
stories about, 34–36
from Sudan, 134–44, 145, 309, 310
Taliban for, 175–76
training camps in, 193, 207, 305
warlords of, 154–55
war’s end in, 73–74, 77
women’s clothing in, 153–54
age
of Mujahideen, 178–79
Osama and, 224
Algiers, attacks in, 317
Allia. See al-Attas, Allia Ghanem animals. See also horse(s)
Abdul Rahman against, 63
birds, 226
bull, 253
camels, 204–5
cow, 227, 241
dogs, 133–34, 176, 184, 187–89, 229–30
at family farm, 43–44
gazelle, 43–44
goats, 252
monkeys, 134–35
pigeons, 69–71, 117, 118
puppies, 176, 229–30
snakes, 3–4, 166, 204
Asr (afternoon prayer), 18
al-Assad, Bashar, xv
assassination
attempt, on Mubarak, 135–36, 145, 295, 309
attempt, on Omar, Mullah, 244–45
attempt, on Osama, 123–26
of Azzam, 78, 306
of Nourallah, 173–74
asthma
bin Laden sons and, 60, 141
for Omar, 60, 141, 156–57
Atef, Mohammed (Abu Hafs), 77, 139–40, 142, 161
daughter’s marriage for, 271–73, 278
death of, 313
grenade and, 208
indictment against, 311
to Omar, 213
for Osama with Omar, 162–63, 213, 271–73
political background of, 162
son for, 162–63
attack(s).