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275 five American embassies: interview with Mark Rossini.
277 Ahmed al-Hada: interviews with Pascuale “Pat” D’Amuro, Daniel Coleman, and Ali Soufan.
called the number: FBI document, “PENTBOM Major Case 182 AOT-IT,” November 5, 2001.
279 “Kissinger’s Promise”: testimony of Stephen Gaudin, U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et al.
“connections”: interview with Mary Lynn Stevens.
issuing threats: interview with Grant Ashley.
281 raising money: interview with Michael Rolince.
bypass surgery: interview with Paul Garmirian.
282 Jamal al-Fadl: interview with Mark Rossini.
hired a spy: interview with Milt Bearden. Bearden thinks the foreign asset was either Egyptian or Tunisian.
283 If surveillance aircraft: interview with Admiral Bob Inman.
refused to share the raw data: interview with Michael Scheuer.
284 “Where do you think”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 9, March 28, 2005.
“Can you at least”: interview with Abdul Rahman Khadr.
285 twenty-two Afghans: U.S. Department of State confidential cable, “Osama bin Laden: Taliban Spokesman Seeks New Proposal for Resolving bin Laden Problem,” November 28, 1998. Hospital sources and Pakistani officials counted eleven dead, and fifty-three wounded. Ismail Khan, “Varying versions,” Islamabad the News, August 30, 1998.
“Each house”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 9, March 28, 2005.
bin Laden sold the unexploded missiles: Murad Ahmad, “Report Cites Russian ‘Documents’ on bin Ladin’s Past,” Al-Majellah, December 23, 2001.
286 “survived the attack”: interview with Rahimullah Yusufzai.
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287 Mullah Omar placed a secret call: U.S. Department of State confidential cable, “Afghanistan: Taliban’s Mullah Omar’s 8/22 Contact with State Department,” August 22, 1998.
furious: interview with Rahimullah Yusufzai.
He judged: U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) cable, “SITREP 6: Pakistan/Afghanistan Reaction to U.S. Strikes,” August 25, 1998.
288 “I shed tears”: Robert Fisk, “Bin Laden’s Secrets Are Revealed by al-Jazeera Journalist,” Independent, October 23, 2002.
“We consider you”: Burke, Al-Qaeda, 168.
fishing: Stephen Braun and Judy Pasternak, “Long Before Sept. 11, bin Laden Aircraft Flew Under the Radar,” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2001.
“This time”: interview with Prince Turki al-Faisal.
289 on drugs: “Spiegel Interview: ‘And Then Mullah Omar Screamed at Me,’ ” Der Spiegel, March 8, 2004. Translated by Christopher Sultan.
they were easily relocated: interview with Abdul Rahman Khadr.
290 “There is no need”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 6, March 24, 2005.
“Did you expect”: ibid.
291 military objected: 9/11 Commission Report, 131.
292 “burned out”: interview with Michael Scheuer.
294 “Catholic thing”: interview with Grant Ashley.
295 “Gee, John”: interview with anonymous FBI agent.
paying the mortgage: Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 279.
borrowing money: interview with Joe Cantemessa.
“common strategy”: Anonymous, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, 124.
the prophesied Mahdi: interview with Ahmed Badeeb.
stop backing anti-Saddam insurgents: 9/11 Commission Report, 61.
295 met the Iraqi dictator: Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Great Terror,” New Yorker, March 25, 2002.
296 Iraqi intelligence officials flew: 9/11 Commission Report, 66.
Zawahiri went to Baghdad: “Iraq: Former PM Reveals Secret Service Data on Birth of al-Qaeda in Iraq,” Aki, May 23, 2005.
297 piece of the infrastructure: interview with Lewis Schiliro.
The CIA warned: statement of Samuel R. Berger, Joint Congressional Inquiry, September 19, 2002.
“Hey, we’ve got something”: Robert Draper, “The Plot to Blow Up LAX,” GQ, December 2001.
298 Times Square: interviews with Joseph Dunne and Mark Rossini.
“If they’re gonna”: Clarke, Against All Enemies, 214.
299 Night of Power: interview with Robert McFadden.
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301 middle or upper: interview with Marc Sageman. Many of the statistics derive from his important study, Understanding Terror Networks.
mental disorders: Sageman remarks that “only four of the