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67. USA v. Tarek Mehanna, 1:09-cr-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment, June 17, 2010.
68. Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009. Although Abousamra’s travel habits suggest that he was serious about joining violent jihadists, it should be noted that his story of continual rejection does not square with the experiences of other American jihadists—consider Bryant Vinas, who managed to get quite far into al Qaeda without an apparent facilitator. According to Abousamra, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba had rejected him because he was “not an Arab,” but the organization had accepted other white Americans—certainly whiter than the ethnically Syrian Abousamra. The Taliban had rejected him for “lack of experience,” but other cases suggested that this would not normally be an obstacle.
69. “The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado,” retrieved July 29, 2010, http://istighfar.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/the-chronicle-of-daniel-j-maldonado/.
70. USA v. Daniel Maldonado, 4:07-mj-00125, Exhibit, handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado.
71. Exhibit, second handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado; Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.
72. Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.
73. “The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado.”
74. USA v. Daniel Maldonado, 4:07-mj-00125, Exhibit, handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado.
75. Ibid., Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.
76. “The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado.”
77. Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.
78. Tarek Mehanna Blog, retrieved December 11, 2008, http://iskandrani.wordpress.com.
79. For example, http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f47/aafia-siddiqui-i-saw-abu-sabaya-15153/, retrieved December 11, 2008.
80. Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.
81. USA v. Tarek Mehanna, Cr. No. 09-10017-GAO, Government’s Proffer and Memorandum in Support of Detention.
82. Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.
83. See http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f47/, retrieved July 29, 2010, among others; also see http://freetarek.com/, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159128188381, http://twitter.com/freetarek, retrieved July 29, 2010.
84. USA v. Tarek Mehanna, Cr. No. 09-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment.
85. See http://news.intelwire.com/2010/07/aqap-inspire-magazine-is-nothing-new.html, retrieved July 30, 2010; http://news.intelwire.com/2010/07/AlQaedas-new-magazine-or-was-it-web.html, retrieved July 30, 2010.
86. “5 D.C.-Area Men Held in Pakistan,” CBS.com, December 9, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/09/world/main5951110.shtml, retrieved July 30, 2010.
Chapter 12. The Future of American Jihad
1. USA v. Holy Land Foundation et al., Memorandum Opinion Order, July 1, 2009, http://www.scribd.com/doc/43380629/2009-order-on-Holy-Land-Foundationunindicted-coconspirator-list, retrieved December 4, 2010. CAIR petitioned a federal judge to have its name stricken from a list of unindicted coconspirators in a Hamas financing case. A federal judge rejected CAIR’s request, ruling that there is “at least a prima facie case as to CAIR’s involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas.”
2. Interview with Alyas Karmani, the director of STREET program (Strategy to Reach, Empower and Educate Teenagers), London, August 10, 2010.
3. Confidential interviews, 2010.
4. Abdullah Azzam, Join the Caravan (Boston: Care International, 1995), 12.
5. Bill Gertz, “Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda-Trained Americans,” Washington Times, August 25, 2010.
6. J.M. Berger, “Gadahn and Awlaki, Together At Last?,” Intelwire.com, October 23, 2010, http://news.intelwire.com/2010/10/gadahn-and-awlaki-together-at-last.html, retrieved December 4, 2010.
7. See, among others, Aaron Weisburd, “Ansar Al Mujahideen: Zombie Forum Badly in Need of Brains,” Internet Haganah, retrieved September 6, 2010, http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006972.html#006972.