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8. J. M. Berger, “Jihadists Add Strong Encryption to Terrorist Toolbox,” Intelwire.com, February 2, 2008. “Mujahideen Secrets 2” encryption software obtained by the author.

9. Gertz, “Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda-Trained Americans”; Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, “Inside Al Qaeda,” Newsweek, September 4, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010, http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/inside-Al Qaeda.html; and Leah Farrall, “Death of a Hoary Old Chestnut?” All Things Counter Terrorism blog, September 7, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010, http://allthingsct.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/death-of-a-hoary-old-chestnut/.

10. Andy Barr, “Newt Gingrich Compares Mosque to Nazis,” Politico, August 16, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41112.html; “Harry Reid: Ground Zero Mosque ‘Should Be Built Some Place Else,’” CBS News, August 16, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013773-503544.html.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary sources for this book include nearly one hundred interviews with former law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic officials in both the United States and Bosnia; American jihadists and their families; victims of jihadist violence; and other individuals directly involved in the events described in this book. Document sources include

• Thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, including documents pertaining to the September 11 attacks, the Siege of Mecca, the war in Bosnia, the jihad against the Soviet Union, and Egyptian extremist groups.

• Thousands of pages of documents obtained from the National Archives pertaining to Anwar Awlaki and the activities of the September 11 hijackers in America.

• Court records from dozens of prosecutions of American jihadists, mostly obtained through PACER, as well as several thousand pages of exhibits pertaining to the Al Kifah Center in Boston, obtained from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston.

• Documents pertaining to al Qaeda and Ali Mohamed that were obtained during the making of the 2007 National Geographic Channel documentary Triple Cross: Bin Laden’s Spy in America.

• Several thousand pages of intelligence and al Qaeda documents pertaining to the war in Bosnia obtained during the making of the 2010 European television documentary Sarajevo Ricochet.

•Court transcripts from major terrorism trials, especially USA v. bin Laden et al. (2001) and USA v. Abdel Rahman et al. (1995).

•A wide number of books and newspaper reports were consulted during the research process for this book. Especially valuable were reports from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the L.A. Times. Books to which the author is especially indebted include The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, by John Miller and Michael Stone with Chris Mitchell (Hyperion, 2003), and The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 2006).

INDEX

Abdullah, Mohdar, 120–21

Abouhalima, Mahmud, 29, 48–49, 66–67, 97

Abousamra, Ahmad, 193–94, 197–98, 201

Abu Hamza Al Masri, 152

Abu Mansour Al Amriki (Bosnia), 86

Abu Mansour Al Amriki (Somalia), see Hammami, Omar

Afghanistan: jihad against the Soviets, vii, xi, xiii, 5–32, 35–38, 41–42, 45, 47–48, 53, 61–63, 80, 84–85, 87, 94–95, 118, 207; post–September 11, 129, 149, 151–52, 154, 156–58, 160–61, 163, 165, 169, 171, 183–87, 200, 203–4, 209–10, 214; post–Soviet era, 99–100, 102–3, 106–10, 113, 115–16

Ajaj, Ahmad, 47–49

Airman Flight School, 103, 131

Alamoudi, Abdurrahman, 56–57, 73, 152, 205–6

Alessa, Mahmood, 184–86,

Ali, lhab, 103, 107, 109–110, 113, 131

Ali, Isa Abdulla. See Holt, Klevin Ali, Siddig, 58–59, 65–71, 74–76, 106

Alkaisi, Bilal, 47

Almonte, Carlos Eduardo, 184–85

Alvarez, Victor, 68

American Islamic Group, 85–86, 96, 157

American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, 73

American Muslim Council, 56, 73, 152, 205

American World Wide Relief, 85

Al Ansar Web forum, 179

Arnaout, Enaam, 95, 152

Atef, Mohammed, 99, 105–6, 156

Awadallah,