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26. The 9-11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Official Government Edition (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), 58.
27. An Interview with Tamim Adnani, Director of the Mujahideen Service Office in Afghanistan (Lawrence Islamic Video, 1988), obtained by the author.
28. Mark Ensalaco, Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 131.
29. Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, 27.
30. Undated Abdullah Azzam video, circulated online by al Qaeda, obtained by the author.
31. Abdullah Azzam, Join the Caravan (Boston: Care International, 1995).
32. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, court transcript, July 13, 1995, Testimony of Khaled Ibrahim.
33. Hampton-El’s biography is based on the following sources except where otherwise noted: author interviews with Alia Rashid, June 26, 2008, and October 23, 2008; USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, August 1, 1995, and August 2, 1995, Testimony of Clement Hampton-El.
34. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman, S5 93 Cr. 181, court transcript, June 5, 1995, citation of surveillance audio.
35. USA v. Abdel Rahman, S5 93 Cr. 181, case heading; author interviews with Tom Corrigan, June 24, 2008, through June 23, 2010, inclusive; and author interview with Islamic cleric Bilal Philips, August 25, 2010.
36. Author e-mail interview with Clement Hampton-El, conducted during several months in 2010.
37. Hampton-El propaganda video, provided to the author by former JTTF investigator Tom Corrigan.
38. USA v. Fawaz Damrah, No. 04-4216, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion, March 15, 2005.
39. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, court transcript, August 2–3, 1995, Testimony of Clement Hampton-El (Abdullah Rashid).
40. Interview with counterterrorism expert Evan Kohlmann, June 23, 2008; physical description of Zaki from images in The Martyrs of Bosnia propaganda videotape obtained by the author; and biographical data derived from court exhibits obtained by the author from U.S. v. Muhamed Mubayyid, Emadeddin Muntasser, and Samir Al Monla, Criminal Action No. 05-40026-FDS (2007).
41. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, Hampton-El propaganda video.
42. Author interviews with Alia Rashid, June 26, 2008, and October 23, 2008.
43. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, Hampton-El propaganda video.
44. Ibid.
45. Author interviews with Alia Rashid, June 26, 2008, and October 23, 2008.
46. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, Hampton-El Testimony.
47. Ibid.; author interviews with Tom Corrigan, June 24, 2008, through June 23, 2010, inclusive.
Chapter 2. Al Qaeda’s Americans
1. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Knopf, 2006), 131–132. Bayazid was contacted with a request for an interview but stopped responding during discussions.
2. Tony Rizzo, “KC Man Linked to Al Qaeda,” Kansas City Star, September 9, 2006.
3. Wright, The Looming Tower, 109–110.
4. USA v. Omar Abdel Rahman et al., S5 93 Cr. 181, July 13, 1995, Testimony of Khaled Ibrahim.
5. An Interview with Tamim Adnani, Director of the Mujahideen Service Office in Afghanistan (Lawrence Islamic Video, 1988), obtained by the author.
6. Wright, The Looming Tower, 110.
7. Letter from Osama bin Laden to Abu Ridah Al Suri, spring 1987. The letter was part of a collection of al Qaeda documents known as the “Tareekh Osama” file, which were recovered from an al Qaeda hard drive seized by the FBI in Bosnia and obtained by the author.
8. Wright, The Looming Tower, 115–117.
9. Minutes of an August 11, 1988, meeting, formation of al Qaeda, Tareekh Osama files. See also Wright, The Looming Tower, 131–132, 402n. Bayazid denied attending the meeting, but the denial must be measured against the document evidence, including