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he forfeited his share of the profit: Azzam, The Lofty Mountain, 150.
“surprised by the sad state”: ibid.
“mountains were shaking”: ibid.
“between five and ten million dollars”: ibid., 88. 102
three hundred dollars per month: Bergen, Holy War, 56.
103 house bin Laden was renting: Mohammed, Al-Ansar al-Arab fi Afghanistan, 119.
twenty-five thousand dollars a month: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, 99; Mohammed, Al-Ansar al-Arab fi Afghanistan, 198.
“this heaven-sent man”: Bernstein, Out of the Blue, 45.
104 to deliver cash: interview with Ahmed Badeeb and Sayeed Badeeb. According to Sayeed Badeeb, the Saudi government continued its support until bin Laden left Afghanistan in 1989.
$350 to $500 million per year: private communication with Marc Sageman, who was a CIA case officer in Afghanistan at the time.
he first met bin Laden in 1985: Elsewhere, he says, “Our first meeting must have taken place around 1984.” “And then Mullah Omar Screamed at Me,” Der Spiegel, November 2004.
Turki could recruit: Clarke, Against All Enemies, 52.
cashews and chocolate: Jason Burke, “The Making of bin Laden: Part 2,” Observer, October 28, 2001.
He built a theological library: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, 98.
tutored at least one young Afghan warrior: Jason Burke, “The Making of bin Laden: Part 2,” Observer, October 28, 2001.
University of Dawa al-Jihad: Fouda and Fielding, Masterminds of Terror, 91; Cooley, Unholy Wars, 238.
pitched in at Jihad, the Arabic-language magazine: Burke, Al-Qaeda, 56.
105 “small smile”: interview with Khaled Khawaja.
“November 1985”: interview with anonymous al-Qaeda source.
“Brigade of the Strangers”: Mohammed, Al-Ansar al-Arab fi Afghanistan, 177.
modern conveniences: interview with Zaynab Abdul Khadr.
never more than three thousand: interview with Abdullah Anas. Milt Bear-den, who was the CIA chief of station in Afghanistan at the time, says, “We figured there were about two thousand Arab Afghans at any one time, plus a couple thousand Arab Afghans who treated it as a Club Med”—i.e., they came for brief holidays. “This compares with about a quarter million full- or part-time Afghans, and 125,000 Soviets,” Bearden says.
106 father’s real identity: interview with Zayneb Ahmed Khadr.
“I traveled to acquaint people”: untitled Abdullah Azzam recruitment video, 1988.
stories of the mujahideen: For instance, see Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, “The Signs of ar-Rahmaan in the Jihad of the Afghan,” www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=877&.
When one beloved mujahid expired: Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, “Abul-Mundhir ash-Shareef,” www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=30&.
was paying for mujahids: interview with Mohammed Loay Baizid.
107 if one subtracted the oil revenue: James R. Woolsey, “Defeating the Oil Weapon,” Commentary, Sept. 2002. The figure is for the mid-1990s. Other statistics have been extrapolated from the authoritative Arab Human Development Report 2002.
108 “raid and be slain”: Osama bin Laden, “Message to the Iraqi People,” al-Jazeera, October 18, 2003.
“He who dies,” Mitchell, Society of the Muslim Brothers, 207.
“Islam is not merely ‘belief’”: Qutb, Milestones, 58ff.; includes other Qutb quotes that follow.
life without Islam is slavery: This argument is more fully developed in Roxanne L. Euben, “Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism,” Journal of Politics 59, no. 1 (February 1997): 28–55.
109 Muslim Brotherhood refuted: interview with Jamal Khashoggi. concerned Saudi fathers: interview with Mohammed al-Hulwah.
110 “Your presence is no longer needed”: Mohammed, Al-Ansar al-Arab fi Afghanistan, 178.
In 1986 bin Laden brought his wives and children: This is according to Essam Deraz, although Mohammed Loay Baizid places the date of the move in 1988.
111 Bin Laden expanded the caverns: interview with Marc Sageman.
“God is great! God is great!”: Mohammed, Al-Ansar al-Arab fi Afghanistan, 185.
bin Laden financed: Jamal Ismail, “Usama bin Laden, the Destruction of the Base,” al-Jazeera,