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“Manson Family”: Steve Coll, “A Secret Hunt Unravels in Afghanistan,” Washington Post, February 22, 2004.
314 Bayoumi: Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, “The Saudi Money Trail,” Newsweek, December 2, 2002; 9/11 Commission Report, 215-18; Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, 172-74; “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, 325.
315 going nowhere: interview with Jack Cloonan.
318 “centralization”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 4, March 22, 2005.
USS The Sullivans: 9/11 Commission Report, 190-91.
shaped charges: Benjamin and Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, 323.
“Enough of words”: Bergen, Holy War, 186.
319 Aden: interview with anonymous former CIA officer.
USS Cole: interviews with Barbara Bodine, Kenneth Maxwell, Thomas Pickard, Pascuale “Pat” D’Amuro, Jim Rhody, Tom Donlon, Ali Soufan, Kevin Giblin, Barry Mawn, David Kelley, Mark Rossini, and Kevin Donovan; also, John O’Neill, “The Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole,” speech given at 19th Annual Government/Industry Conference on Global Terrorism, Political Instability, and International Crime, March 2001; Graham, Intelligence Matters, 60-61; Bergen, Holy War, 184-92; Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 287-312; “The Man Who Knew,” www.pbs.org.¨
324 clear directives: interview with Michael Sheehan.
329 “errand boy”: interview with Ali Soufan.
Soufan queried the CIA: According to Soufan, “the agency went behind my back” to interview his source in Afghanistan in December 2000. The agency was sharing his source at this time, but in accordance with protocol, brought along the FBI legal attaché from Islamabad. At this time, the CIA officer had the source identify a surveillance photo of Khallad from the Malaysia meeting. This allowed the agency to correctly say that the FBI was present when the picture was shown; however, the interview was conducted in Arabic, a language that the FBI attaché didn’t speak, so he was unaware of what was actually transpiring.
331 Samsonite suitcases: “The Story of the Afghan Arabs,” Al-Sharq al-Awsat, part 4, December 12, 2004.
Bin Laden separated: 9/11 Commission Report, 191.
launching another missile: Clinton, My Life, 925.
hoped to lure: interview with Ali Soufan.
19. The Big Wedding
333 marriage: interviews with Ahmed Zaidan, Jamal Khalifa, and Maha Elsamneh; Zeidan, Bin Laden Bila Qina’, 109-58.
A destroyer: “Bin Laden Verses Honor Cole Attack,” Reuters, March 2, 2001.
334 sleeplessness: Abdullah bin Osama bin Laden says that his father was only sleeping two or three hours a night. “Bin Laden’s Son Defiant,” BBC, October 14, 2001.
Our men are in revolt: government exhibit, U.S. v. Moussaoui.
Dick Clarke: interview with Richard A. Clarke; also, Clarke, Against All Enemies, 225-34. The 9/11 Commission Report says that Clarke told Rice he wanted to be reassigned in May or June; he told me March.
335 Rice demurred: Philip Shenon and Eric Schmitt, “Bush and Clinton Aides Grilled by Panel,” New York Times, March 24, 2004.
eighty thousand dollars: interview with Valerie James. O’Neill’s base salary was $120,336.
336 “hot-blooded revolutionary”: Mohammed el-Shafey, “UBL’s Aide al-Zawahiri Attacks Jihad Members ‘Taking Refuge in Europe,’ ” Al-Sharq al-Awsat, April 23, 2001. Translated by FBIS.
337 Ahmed Shah Massoud: interview with Abdullah Anas; Kathy Gannon, “Osama Ordered Assassination,” Advertiser, August 16, 2002; Jon Lee Anderson, “Letter from Kabul: The Assassins,” New Yorker, June 10, 2002; Burke, Al-Qaeda, 177; Mike Boettcher and Henry Schuster, “How Much Did Afghan Leader Know?” CNN, November 6, 2003; 9/11 Commission Report, 139; Defense Intelligence Agency confidential cable, “IIR [Excised]/The Assassination of Massoud Related to 11 September 2001 Attack,” November 21, 2001; Benjamin and Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, 338; Coll, Ghost Wars, 568.
338 “using an airplane”: Sam Tannehaus, “The C.I.A.’s