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Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil: “Newspaper Says U.S. Ignored Terror Warning,” Reuters, September 7, 2002.
Jordanian intelligence: John K. Cooley, “Other Unheeded Warnings Before 9/11?” Christian Science Monitor, May 23, 2002.
Amal al-Sada: interview with Ali Soufan.
“Songs and merriment”: al-Hammadi, “The Inside Story of al-Qa’ida,” part 6, March 24, 2005.
mother chastised: interview with Ali Soufan.
339 “We’re going to kill”: interview with Richard A. Clarke.
340 “Something bad”: Dana Priest, “Panel Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings,” Washington Post, April 13, 2004.
Intelink: Intelink is a handicapped system available to other intelligence agencies. It would have shown Gillespie only what was available to FBI intelligence. Had she looked on the Hercules system, the powerful CIA database that contained all the cables and NSA traffic and was available to her, she would have gotten a complete picture of the agency’s knowledge of Mihdhar and Hazmi.
June 11: interviews with Dina Corsi, Steven Bongardt, Ali Soufan, and Mark Rossini. Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, The Cell, 305; Cofer Black statement, September 20, 2002, Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Dina Corsi told me that she had written the names of Mihdhar and Hazmi on the backs of the photographs, so that the names were made available to the criminal agents on the I-49 squad, but Bongardt says he never saw them.
343 “the Wall”: interviews with Jack Cloonan, Ali Soufan, Pascuale “Pat” D’Amuro, Daniel Coleman, Admiral Bob Inman; 9/11 Commission Report, 78-80.
given birth: 9/11 Commission Report, 222.
344 Pink Floyd: interview with Ali Soufan.
O’Neill…in Spain: interviews with Mark Rossini, Valerie James, Enrique García, Emiliano Burdiel Pascual, and Teodoro Gómez Domínguez.
345 Atta…also in the country: interviews with José Maria Irujo, Keith Johnson, and Ramón Pérez Maura; Joint Congressional Inquiry, 139; Fouda and Fielding, Masterminds of Terror, 137.
346 Irish Republican Army: interview with Dan Coleman.
349 “The duties of this religion”: “Rede des Scheich usamma Bin LADEN anläßlich des Fitr-Festes erster schawal 1420.” [Speech of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden on the occasion of the Fitr celebration of the first schawal 1420], Motassadeq Document, Trans. Chester Rosson. I have modified some of the grammar and the stilted language, which was translated from Arabic to German to English.
350 alarming electronic communication: interviews with Jack Cloonan, Mark Rossini, and Daniel Coleman; Miller, Mitchell, and Stone, The Cell, 289; Joint Congressional Inquiry, 20. In FBI vernacular, an “electronic communication” is an e-mail that requires a response; it is not an informal document. It has superseded teletypes as a formal communication.
351 Zacarias Moussaoui: interviews with Richard A. Clarke and Michael Rolince; 9/11 Commission Report, 273-76.
Yazid Sufaat: 9/11 Commission Report, 151; “Entrepreneurs of Terrorism,” Weekend Australian, July 24, 2004.
“Today is”: Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 350.
352 INS: interviews with Ali Soufan, Jack Cloonan, Mark Rossini, and Daniel Coleman; Eleanor Hill, “The Intelligence Community’s Knowledge of the September 11 Hijackers Prior to September 11, 2001,” Joint Inquiry Staff Statement, Joint Congressional Inquiry, September 20, 2002.
354 “I left because”: Roula Khalaf, “Dinner with the FT: Turki al-Faisal,” Financial Times, November 1, 2003.
“over-ripened fruit”: Paul Mcgeough, “The Puppeteer,” Sydney Morning Herald, October 8, 2002.
“huge burden”: Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 359.
Massoud: Jon Lee Anderson, “Letter from Kabul: The Assassins,” New Yorker, June 10, 2002.
355 Mullah Mohammed Khaksar: Kathy Gannon, “Osama ‘Ordered Assassination,’ ” Advertiser, August 17, 2002.
“We’re overdue”: interviews with Jerome Hauer and Robert Tucker.
356 mountains