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New Jersey Lottery: interview with Jack Cloonan.
198 two cameras: ibid.
“Bin Laden looked”: plea, U.S. v. Ali Mohamed.
199 “I am tired”: Hasin al-Banyan, “The Oldest Arab Afghan Talks to ‘Al-Sharq al-Awsat’ About His Career That Finally Landed Him in Prison in Saudi Arabia,” trans. FBIS, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, November 25, 2001.
Medani al-Tayeb: interview with Jamal Khalifa.
several delegations: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, 146.
“It means that Abdullah”: interview with Mohammed Loay Baizid.
conciliatory note: interview with Jamal Khashoggi.
if he pledged to give up jihad: interview with Ahmed Badeeb.
11. The Prince of Darkness
202 “O’Neill”: interview with Richard A. Clarke.
203 “nightclub wardrobe”: interview with Steven Simon.
204 paint its jet: interview with Admiral Paul E. Busick.
$12 million: Naftali, Blind Spot, 242.
205 Su-Casa: Reeve, New Jackals, 104.
207 “Sons of John”: interview with Mark Rossini.
209 “This battle is not between al-Qaeda and the U.S.”: Taysir Aluni interview with Osama bin Laden, al-Jazeera, October 2001.
210 new basing agreements: interview with Richard A. Clarke.
former Egyptian minister: Alain Geresh, From Index on Censorship, www.geocities.com/saudhouse_p/endofan.htm, April 1996.
211 “Why would my car”: Kevin Dennehy, “Cape Man Relives Close Call with Terrorist Bombing While in Saudi Arabia,” Cape Cod Times, October 25, 2001.
torturing confessions: A vivid account of the roundup and torture of Arab Afghans following the 1995 bombing can be found in Jerichow, The Saudi File, 136-40.
Farouk camp: Kohlmann, Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe, 158.
nearly identical confessions: Teitelbaum, Holier Than Thou, 76.
“heroes”: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, 141.
fatwa urging jihad: Salah Najm and Jamal Ismail, “Osama bin Laden: The Destruction of the Base,” al-Jazeera, June 10, 1999.
212 “first terrorist blow”: Prince Turki al-Faisal speech to Seton Hall University, October 14, 2003.
12. The Boy Spies
213 Egyptian intelligence learned: Al-Ahram, July 5, 1995.
214 married local women: interview with David Shinn.
smuggled weapons: interview with Sadiq al-Mahdi.
motivational talk: Al-Ahram, July 5, 1995.
The plan: interview with Saeed Badeeb.
Mubarak’s plane: interview with Hisham Kassem.
grenade launcher malfunctioned: interview with Mohammed el-Shafey.
return to the airport: interview with Saeed Badeeb.
“The sons”: Petterson, Inside Sudan, 179.
215 Houses were burned: interview with Hisham Kassem.
thousands of suspects: Human-rights organizations estimate the number of Islamists still incarcerated in Egypt at 15,000; Islamists put the figure at 60,000.
fiendish plan: interviews with Yassir el-Sirri, Montassir el-Zayyat, and Hani el-Sibai.
a senior member: Mohammed el-Shafey, “Al-Zawahiri’s Secret Papers,” part 6, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, December 18, 2002.
“It could even”: interview with Yassir el-Sirri.
216 “state within a state”: Mohammed el-Shafey, “Al-Zawahiri’s Secret Papers,” part 6, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, December 18, 2002.
fewer than a hundred: confessions of Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed al-Najjar, “Returnees from Albania” case, September 1998.
“These are bad times”: ibid.
217 November 19, 1995: The account of the Egyptian Embassy bombing comes from al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 9, March 28, 2005.
cab driver: “Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden’s Vehicle for Action,” unsigned CIA document, July 12, 2001. The document describes Abu Khabab as a “limousine driver,” which in the Middle East is usually a euphemism for cab driver.
218 government rounded up: interview with Ismail Khan.
there were no innocents: Maha Azzam, “Al-Qaeda: The Misunderstood Wahhabi Connection and the Ideology of Violence,” Royal Institute of International Affairs Briefing Paper No. 1, February 2003.
“A man may”: Sahih Bukhari, vol. 8, bk. 77, no. 60.
219 “a generation of mujahideen”: Mohammed