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middle-class professionals: Nick Fielding, “Osama’s Recruits Well-Schooled,” Sunday Times, April 3, 2005.
young, single men: interview with Abdullah Anas.
Shia Muslims had participated: interview with Abdullah Anas.
ten and twenty thousand trainees: 9/11 Commission Report, 66. Sageman privately estimates the number of recruits during this period was no more than five thousand.
302 utopian goals: Bernstein, Out of the Blue, 86.
three main stages: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 5, March 23, 2005.
303 “enemies of Islam”: interview with Ali Soufan.
“shooting the personality”: David Rohde and C. J. Chivers, “Al-Qaeda’s Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing,” New York Times, March 17, 2002.
Kamikaze Camp: Abu Zayd, “After Ben Ladan’s Return to Afghanistan and Revival of Fundamentalist Alliance,” Al-Watan al-Arabi, June 7, 1996.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: interview with Jack Cloonan. The author’s own movie, The Siege, was also viewed by al-Qaeda members.
“the destructive power”: Alan Cullison and Andrew Higgins, “Computer in Kabul Holds Chilling Memos,” Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2001.
304 five hours to die: undated, unsigned document, “CIA Report on the Zawahiri Brothers.”
Yazid Sufaat: “Is al-Qaeda Making Anthrax?” CBS News, October 9, 2003; Eric Lipton, “Qaeda Letters Are Said to Show Pre-9/11 Anthrax Plans,” New York Times, May 21, 2005.
preferred nuclear bombs: “The Story of the Afghan Arabs,” Al-Sharq al-Awsat, part 1, December 8, 2004.
305 Hamburg: interviews with Georg Mascolo, Josef Joffe, Jochen Bittner, Manfred Murck, and Cordula Meyer.
200,306: “The Hamburg Connection,” BBC News, August 19, 2005.
306 “a good man”: 9/11 Commission Report, 165.
307 “elegant”: John Crewdson, “From Kind Teacher to Murderous Zealot,” Chicago Tribune, September 11, 2004.
“I had a difficult”: Brian Ross, “Face to Face with a Terrorist,” ABC News, June 6, 2002.
signed a standardized will: Fouda and Fielding, Masterminds of Terror, 82.
Atta was enraged: Nicholas Hellen, John Goetz, Ben Smalley, and Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas, “God’s Warrior,” Sunday Times, January 13, 2002.
“planes operation”: ibid., 154.
308 spring of 1999: “Substitution for the Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” U.S. v. Moussaoui.
only ones involved: 9/11 Commission Report, 155.
“America is:” “Bin Laden’s Sermon for the Feast of the Sacrifice,” MEMRI Special Dispatch Series—No. 476, www.memri.org, March 5, 2003.
Sears Tower: Paul Martin, “Chicago, L.A. Towers Were Next Targets,” Washington Times, March 30, 2004.
309 Nawaf al-Hazmi: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, 131; and Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, 16.
Khaled al-Mihdhar: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, 131; interview with Ali Soufan; and Eric Watkins, personal communication.
Ramadan: Georg Mascolo, “Operation Holy Tuesday,” Der Spiegel, October 27, 2003.
bin al-Shibh: interview with Ali Soufan.
310 “Something nefarious”: 9/11 Commission Report, 353.
311 CIA already had the names: interview with Saeed Badeeb.
“We need to continue the effort”: “Three 9/11 Hijackers: Identification, Watchlisting, and Tracking,” Staff Statement No. 2, 4, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
“This is not a matter”: interview with Mark Rossini.
“Is this a no go”: Miller is identified as “Dwight” in “A Review of the FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks,” Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, November 2004, 233.
313 drowning in a flood of threats: interview with an anonymous CIA employee of Alec Station, who told me, “The real miracle is that there was only one major failure.”
twelve employees: The 9/11 Commission Report, 479.