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Chapter 9. The Descent of Anwar Awlaki
1. William Branigin, “When Terror Hits Close to Home,” Washington Post, September 20, 2001.
2. Debbi Wilgoren and Ann O’Hanlon, “Worship and Worry: Fear for Other Muslims Mixes with Support for U.S.,” Washington Post, September 22, 2001.
3. Susan Morse, “First Source of Comfort; When Events Overwhelm, Clergy, Not Doctors, Are on the Front Lines, Washington Post, September 18, 2001.
4. Wilgoren and O’Hanlon, “Worship and Worry; Fear for Other Muslims Mixes with Support for U.S.”
5. FBI Letterhead Memorandum, “Anwar Nasser Aulaqi,” September 26, 2001.
6. 9/11 Commission Report, various dates. Binalshibh interacted primarily with the Hamburg cell members. He was aware of the other hijackers but dealt mainly with Atta.
7. FBI Letterhead Memorandum, “Anwar Nasser Aulaqi,” September 26, 2001.
8. Matthew Barakat, “FBI Tries to Track Northern Virginia Connection to Five Hijackers,” Associated Press, September 21, 2001.
9. Chitra Ragavan, “The Imam’s Very Curious Story,” US News and World Report, June 21, 2004; “Awlaki’s Sordid Personal Life,” Fox News video, May 22, 2010, retrieved August 25, 2010, http://video.foxnews.com/v/4208057/al-awlakis-sordid-personal-life/.
10. Ray Suarez, “Ray Suarez: My Post-9/11 Interview with Anwar Al Awlaki,” PBS Newshour, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/religion/july-dec09/alawlaki_11-11.html, with video from an Awlaki sermon given on October 30, 2001.
11. Scott Shane, “Terror Cases Lead Back to Cleric; U.S.-Born Muslim’s Wit Said to Have Spurred on Several Extremist Plots,” International Herald Tribune, November 20, 2009.
12. “Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio (NPR), September 9, 2004.
13. Audio: Anwar Awlaki, “Brutality against Muslims,” khutba, March 15, 2002.
14. Audio: Anwar Awlaki, “It’s a War against Islam,” khutba, March 22, 2002.
15. Audio: Anwar Awlaki, “Lessons from the Companions Living as a Minority,” JIMAS Conference 2002.
16. Joseph Rhee and Mark Schone, “How Anwar Awlaki Got Away; U.S. Attorney’s Decision to Cancel Arrest Warrant ‘Shocked’ Terrorism Investigators,” ABC News, November 30, 2009, retrieved August 26, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9200720.
17. Rhee and Schone, “How Anwar Awlaki Got Away.”
18. Joseph Rhee, “U.S. Attorney Defends Decision to Scrap Awlaki Arrest Warrant,” ABC News, December 7, 2009.
19. Audio: Anwar Awlaki, “Stop Police Terror,” khutba, circa 2002.
20. Audio: Anwar Awlaki, “The Enemies of Allah,” undated.
21. Duncan Gardham, “Al-Qaeda Leader’s Tour of Britain Revealed,” The Telegraph, November 5, 2010; Sudarsan Raghavan, “Cleric in Fort Hood Probe Grew More Radical in Yemeni Jail,” Washington Post, December 9, 2009.
22. A Nexis search of national newspaper stories from January 1, 2004, to January 1, 2008, revealed only a handful of stories that specifically focused on Awlaki’s role. One of the most ambitious was by a college newspaper. See Katie Rooney, “George Washington U. Ex-Student Tied to 9/11 Hijackers in Report,” The GW Hatchet, September 7, 2005.
23. Moazzam Begg, “Moazzam Begg Interviews Imam Anwar Al Awlaki,” Cageprisoners.com, December 31, 2007, http://old.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=22926, retrieved August 6, 2010; Michelle Shephard, “The Powerful Online Voice of Jihad,” Toronto Star, October 18, 2009.
24. “U.S. Imam Wanted in Yemen over al-Qaida Ties,” MSNBC.com, November 10, 2009, retrieved August 6, 2010, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33841279/ns/us_news-tragedy_at_fort_hood/.
25. Begg, “Moazzam Begg Interviews Imam Anwar Al Awlaki.”
26. Mirror of Awlaki blog entries, retrieved August 6, 2010, http://www.pureislam.o.za/index.php?option=com_ontent&task=view&id=644&Itemid=33; and http://www.pureislamco.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69 7&Itemid=33, retrieved August 6, 2010.
27. Mirror of Awlaki blog entry, http://www.pureislam.co.za/index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=553&Itemid=33,