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238 “Wasn’t that a great trip?”: interview with Richard A. Clarke. Freeh, in personal communication, denies this exchange took place. O’Neill told many others the same story, however.
239 It was Naif who decided: interview with anonymous former U.S. State Department official.
“Maybe you have”: interview with Rihab Massoud.
“go operational”: interview with John Lipka.
240 “got this town wired”: interview with R. P. Eddy.
241 TWA Flight 800: interviews with Richard A. Clarke, Tom Corrigan, and Tom Lang.
Alec Station: interviews with Daniel Coleman and Michael Scheuer.
243 “Send ten green papers”: exhibit from U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et al.
six children: bail hearing, U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et al.
Coleman put the women: interview with Daniel Coleman.
244 “Would you like”: interview with Daniel Coleman.
15. Bread and Water
245 They flattered him: Abdel Bari Atwan, “Interview with Saudi oppositionist Usmah bin-Ladin,” Al-Quds al-Arabi, November 27, 1996.
endorsed their rule: Burke, “The Making of bin Laden: Part 1,” Observer, October 28, 2001.
television crew: Bergen, Holy War, 17ff.
247 sent a helicopter: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 5, March 23, 2005.
plot…to kidnap: “Walidee Ramama al-Aqsa Bilkhasara” [My Father Renovated al-Aqsa Mosque, with a Loss], Al-Umma al-Islamiyya, October 18, 1991.
248 “We want a simple life”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 5, March 23, 2005.
about eighty mud-brick: Coll, Ghost Wars, 391.
“in perfect harmony”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 6, March 24, 2005.
two T-55 Soviet tanks: Clarke, Against All Enemies, 149.
“May God be praised”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 6, March 24, 2005.
249 Switzerland: “Secrets of Relations Among al-Zawaheri, ben Ladan, and Hezb ul-Tahrir in Terrorist Operations in Europe” [sic], Al-Watan al-Arabi, October 13, 1995. Translated by FBIS. One of Zawahiri’s associates testified in Egypt that he had had telephone contacts with Zawahiri in Geneva. Khalid Sharaf-al-Din, “Surprises in the Trial of the Largest International Fundamentalist Organization in Egypt,” Al-Sharq al-Awsat, March 6, 1999. Translated by FBIS. The Swiss villa is from “Al-Jihad Terrorist Claims Strong CIA-Terrorist Ties,” MENA, September 8, 1996. Yassir al-Sirri, who was close to al-Jihad, maintained in an interview that Zawahiri never lived in Switzerland, but Zawahiri’s cousin Maha Azzam says he did.
Bulgaria: interview with Saeed Badeeb.
Copenhagen: interview with Jesper Stein; Michael Taarnby Jensen, personal correspondence.
fake passport: Andrew Higgins and Alan Cullison, “Terrorist’s Odyssey: Saga of Dr. Zawahri [sic] Illuminates Roots of al-Qaeda Terror,” Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002.
satellite television channel: Wright, “The Man Behind bin Laden,” New Yorker, September 16, 2002.
“Conditions there”: Andrew Higgins and Alan Cullison, “Terrorist’s Odyssey: Saga of Dr. Zawahri [sic] Illuminates Roots of al-Qaeda Terror,” Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002.
“If the Chechens”: al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,” part 7.
250 four passports: C. J. Chivers and Steven Lee Myers, “Chechen Rebels Mainly Driven by Nationalism,” New York Times, September 12, 2004.
“God blinded them”: Andrew Higgins and Alan Cullison, “Terrorist’s Odyssey: Saga of Dr. Zawahri [sic] Illuminates Roots of al-Qaeda Terror,” Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002.
ISI subsidizing: Benjamin and Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, 146.
purchase some expensive vehicles: Vahid Mojdeh, in Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, 164.
a hundred-dollar-per-month: confessions of Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed al-Najjar, “Returnees from Albania” case, September 1998.
250 people: Abdurrahman Khadr, in Bergen, The Osama