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security police: interview with Fouad Allam.
“time has come”: al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 154.
31 “Thank God”: ibid., 156.
He dispatched Sadat: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
minister of education: al-Khaledi, Sayyid Qutb: al-shaheed, 154.
“Write the words”: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
government refused: interview with Mohammed Qutb.
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32 Maadi: Much of the history and sociology of Maadi comes from interviews with Samir W. Raafat and from his book, Maadi.
33 Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri: Information about the Zawahiri family is largely drawn from interviews and personal communications with Mahfouz Azzam and Omar Azzam.
highly unpopular: Yunan Rizk, “Al-Azhar’s 1934,” Al-Ahram Weekly, May 13–19, 2004.
34 private medical clinic: interview with Khaled Abou el-Fadl.
35 Michel Chalhub: Raafat, Maadi, 185.
“inhumane”: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
“genius”: interview with Zaki Mohamed Zaki.
36 “From tomorrow”: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
37 “We don’t want”: interview with Omar Azzam.
“Nasserite regime”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 3.
38 Parents were fearful: interview with Zaki Mohamed Zaki.
39 “Then history”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 6.
In return for their support: interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
40 even to his family: Chanaa Rostom, “li awil mara shaqiqat al-Zawahiri tatahadith,” [For the First Time Zawahiri’s Sister Speaks], Akher Sa’a, October 24, 2001.
A joke: interview with Mahfouz Azzam and Omar Azzam.
41 provided them with arms: interview with Hisham Kassem.
in small cells: Cooley, Unholy Wars, 40.
42 fewer than ten members: interview with Abdul Haleem Mandour.
Four of these cells: interview with Kamal Habib.
43 “Before that”: interview with Essam Nowair.
44 become a martyr: interview with Omar Azzam.
“My connection”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 2.
45 had to use honey: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
Writing to his mother: interview with Omar Azzam; Robert Marquand, “The Tenets of Terror,” Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2001.
Through his connection: interview with Omar Azzam.
recruiting for jihad: interview with Mahmoun Fandy.
46 “a training course”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 2.
47 “lunatic madman”: Ibrahim, Egypt Islam and Democracy, 30 n.
“Yes we are reactionaries”: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, “Speech at Feyziyeh Theological School,” August 24, 1979; reproduced in Rubin and Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism, 34.
“Islam says”: Taheri, Holy Terror, 226–27.
Iranian revolution: Abdelnasser, Islamic Movement, 73.
48 five hundred Quranic verses: Roy Mottahedeh, personal communication.
final speech: Guenena, “‘Jihad’ an ‘Islamic Alternative,’” 80–81.
49 Sadat dissolved: Kepel, Jihad, 85.
“No politics in religion”: Abdo, No God but God, 54.
Zumar’s plan: 1981 interrogation of Ayman al-Zawahiri.
“a noble person”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 5.
“something missing”: interview with Yassir al-Sirri.
51 Essam al-Qamari came out: 1981 interrogation of Ayman al-Zawahiri.
52 Citadel: interview with Montassir al-Zayyat.
53 Two weeks later: interview with Fouad Allam.
“Let him pray”: interview with Omar Azzam.
Zawahiri went to the mosque: interview with Mahfouz Azzam.
“The toughest thing”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 11.
Qamari was shot: interview with Kamal Habib.
55 marks of torture: Fouad Allam, who allegedly oversaw the torture personally, claims that no torture took place; it’s all a legend, he says. There may be some truth in that; many of the stories that prisoners tell are so gothic that they have the ring of fantasy, and certainly they have been hawked to reporters in order to discredit the regime and enhance the standing of the Islamists. Allam gave me a 1982 video of a young Montassir al-Zayyat (who had told me of being repeatedly beaten and given electroshock) buoyantly greeting incoming prisoners at Torah