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Prince Turki argued: Jamal Khashoggi, “Kingdom Has a Big Role to Play in Afghanistan,” Arab News, November 6, 2001.
that Caliph Omar: Lewis, The Crisis of Islam, xxix-xxx.
“inadmissible”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 8, March 26, 2005.
159 1,500 foreign journalists: al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia, 166.
“infidels”: Wright, “Kingdom of Silence.”
160 “Letter of Demands”: al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia, 170; also, Champion, The Paradoxical Kingdom, 218ff.; Abir, Saudi Arabia, 186ff.
more shocked: Champion, The Paradoxical Kingdom, 221.
161 “There’s a role”: interview with Jamal Khashoggi.
Worried about the influence: interview with Michael Scheuer, who talked to Turki during this period.
Saudi Arabia had recruited: Stephen Engelberg, “One Man and a Global Web of Violence,” New York Times, January 14, 2001.
8. Paradise
163 fifteen and twenty-five thousand: interview with Steven Simon. Other estimates range from five to fifteen thousand. Reeve, The New Jackals, 3; also, Halliday, Two Hours That Shook the World, 166. Marc Sageman cautions in a personal communication: “I wanted to zero in on the numbers myself. What I found out is that no one knew, and did not even know how to go about even estimating this number. So far, all the numbers are arbitrary, based on a very wild guess.”
directly to jail: interview with Saeed Badeeb.
164 “even with Red Indians”: interview with Hasan al-Turabi.
four trusted associates: testimony of Jamal al-Fadl, U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et al.
“it is Sudan!”: interview with Mohammed Loay Baizid.
gave Fadl $250,000: testimony of Jamal al-Fadl, United States v. Usama bin Laden et al.
165 which brought Osama: interview with Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin.
seventeen children: interview with Zaynab Abdul Khadr.
leader of Sudan greeted: Ahmad Zaydan, “The Search for al-Qaeda,” al-Jazeera, September 10, 2004.
Nearly every month: interview with Ibrahim al-Sanoussi.
heresy in bin Laden’s eyes: interview with Jamal Khalifa.
“art, music, singing”: interview with Hasan al-Turabi.
“The Prophet himself”: interview with Hasan al-Turabi.
167 The neighbors claimed: al-Nour Ahmed al-Nour, “His Neighbor Claims He Does Not Speak Much,” Al-Hayat, November 19, 2001.
what his guests left: interview with Issam Eldin Turabi.
167 al-Qaeda soccer teams: interview with Jack Cloonan.
168 “great Islamic investor”: “Part One of a Series of Reports on bin Ladin’s Life in Sudan: Islamists Celebrated Arrival of ‘Great Islamic Investor,’ ” Al-Quds al-Arabi, November 24, 2001. Translated by FBIS.
$350 million: Ibid.
$50 million: Thomas E. Burnett, Sr. v. Al Baraka Investment and Development Corporation, et al. Final Third Amended complaint.
“larger than Bahrain”: interview with Dr. Khaled Batarfi.
leather for the Italian market: Bergen, Holy War, 81.
a million acres: Burr, Revolutionary Sudan, 71.
near monopoly: U.S. State Department fact sheet on Usama bin Laden, August 14, 1996.
169 filled out in triplicate: interview with Bruce Hoffman.
between $50 and $120: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 9, March 28, 2005.
Saudis got more: interview with Dan Coleman.
five hundred people working: interview with Hassabulla Omer.
a hundred of them who were active members: ibid. The testimony of Jamal al-Fadl (U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et al.) is confusing because he apparently conflates the number of employees of bin Laden’s companies with the actual number of people who had formally pledged bayat to bin Laden.
$1 million a day: Burr, Revolutionary Sudan, 36.
holy men…fasting: al-Nour Ahmed al-Nour, “His Neighbor Claims He Does Not Speak Much,” Al-Hayat, November 19, 2001.
blessings of peace: interview with Ghazi Salah Eddin Atabani.
170 Abu Hajer: interviews with Tom Corrigan, Daniel Coleman, Allan P. Haber, Jamal Khalifa, and Mohammed Loay Baizid.
he deserted: interrogation of Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim Ahmed, Munich, September 17, 1998.
made bin Laden weep: interview with Daniel Coleman.
171 September 11: