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17. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Knopf, 2006), 411n.
18. USA v. bin Laden et al., S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.; USA v. Enaam M. Arnaout, No. 02 CR 892, Government’s Evidentiary Proffer Supporting the Admissibility of Coconspirator Statements, January 6, 2003.
19. Wright, The Looming Tower, 222n; USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 21, 2001, Testimony of L’Houssaine Kherchtou.
20. Wright, The Looming Tower, 183; Williams, “Bin Laden’s Bay Area Recruiter.” The exact date of Zawahiri’s trip is disputed.
21. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 21, 2001, Testimony of L’Houssaine Kherchtou.
22. Susan Sachs, “An Investigation in Egypt Illustrates Al Qaeda’s Web,” New York Times, November 21, 2001; USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; and Andrew C. McCarthy, Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (New York: Encounter Books, 2008), 94–95.
23. McCarthy, Willful Blindness, 94–95.
24. USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; McCarthy, Willful Blindness, 301.
25. McCarthy, Willful Blindness, 304; Triple-Cross (National Geographic Video, 2007).
26. USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Indictment and Superseding Indictment.
27. USA v. bin Laden et al., S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.
28. Ibid.
29. Author interviews with Tom Corrigan, June 24, 2008, through June 23, 2010, inclusive.
30. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, April 17, 2001.
31. 9/11 Commission Report, 480.
32. “Bin Laden’s Fatwa,” PBS News Hour, retrieved August 4, 2010, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html.
33. Wright, The Looming Tower, 265; USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 3, 2001; and Murphy, “Pilot Led a Quiet Life in Orlando.”
34. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 1, 2001.
35. Ibid., court transcript, February 21, 2001; Kevin Peraino and Evan Thomas, “Odyssey into Jihad,” Newsweek, January 14, 2002; Zill, “A Portrait of Wadih El Hage, Accused Terrorist.”
36. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcripts, February 21, 2001, and May 1, 2001; Zill, “A Portrait of Wadih El Hage, Accused Terrorist.”
37. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcripts, March 22, 2001, and May 1, 2001; USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Indictment and Superseding Indictment.
38. USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.
39. Benjamin Weiser, “Prosecutors Portray the Strands of a Bin Laden Web of Terror,” New York Times, January 23, 2000; USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Exhibit 358.
40. USA v. bin Laden, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 3, 2001. At one point it was also speculated that O’Sam was Mohammed Atef, the military chief of al Qaeda at that time. Atef was killed in November 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
41. “Jihad against Jews and Crusaders,” World Islamic Front Statement, February 23, 1998, retrieved August 4, 2010, http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm.
42. Interview, Osama bin Laden, PBS Frontline, May 1998, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html.
43. FBI Executive Summary of Findings, International Bulletin, November 18, 1998, retrieved August 4, 2010, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/summary.html.
44. USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel