The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright [248]
page 4: Mohammed bin Laden with Prince Talal in the Grand Mosque: courtesy of Prince Talal. Mohammed bin Laden and King Faisal: courtesy Saudi Binladin Group. Grand Mosque: Abbas/Magnum. Juhayman al-Oteibi: courtesy of Saudi Embassy
page 5: Jamal Khalifa: author’s collection. Osama bin Laden’s first house in Jeddah: author’s collection. Osama bin Laden’s second house in Jeddah: author’s collection;
page 6: Abdullah Azzam: courtesy of Abdullah Anas. Young Osama bin Laden: EPA/Corbis. Azzam and Massoud: courtesy of Abdullah Anas
page 7: General Hamid Gul: author’s collection. Prince Turki: Corbis. Prince Turki negotiating among warring mujahideen: courtesy of Jamal Khashoggi
page 8: World Trade Center: Getty. Ramzi Yousef: courtesy of the FBI
page 9: Hasan al-Turabi: author’s collection. Osama bin Laden: courtesy of Scott MacLeod. Osama bin Laden’s mosque: author’s collection
page 10: Osama bin Laden with gun: AFP/Getty. Taliban fighter on tank: Sayed Salahuddin/Reuters/Corbis
page 11: Bin Laden and Zawahiri at a press conference: CNN via Getty. Dar-ul-Aman Palace ruins: author’s collection
page 12: Ruins of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya: Reuters. Ruins of the American Embassy in Tanzania: courtesy of the FBI. Pharmaceutical plant ruins: author’s collection
page 13: USS Cole: Getty. Michael Scheuer: AP. Richard Clarke: AP
page 14: Valerie James and John O’Neill: courtesy of Valerie James. Mary Lynn Stevens and John O’Neill: courtesy of Mary Lynn Stevens. Anna DiBattista and John O’Neill: courtesy of Anna DiBattista
page 15: John O’Neill and Daniel Coleman: courtesy of Daniel Coleman. Ruins of bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan: courtesy of the FBI. John O’Neill’s mother and wife at his funeral: AP
page 16: World Trade Center ruins: Hale Gurland/Contact Press Images
Sayyid Qutb, the educator and writer whose book Milestones ignited the radical Islamist movement, is shown here displaying one of his books (probably Social Justice in Islam) to the president of Colorado State College of Education, Dr. William Ross.
Greeley, Colorado, from the air in the 1940s. “The small city of Greeley, in which I am staying, is so beautiful that one may easily imagine that he is in paradise,” Qutb wrote. But he also saw the darker side of America.
Qutb on trial, circa 1965. He was hanged in 1966. “Thank God,” he said when his death sentence was pronounced. “I performed jihad for fifteen years until I earned this martyrdom.”
Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up in Maadi, a middle-class suburb of Cairo. A solitary child, his classmates regarded him as a genius. He is shown in his childhood in a Cairo park.
Zawahiri as a schoolboy, right, and as a medical student at Cairo University, below
Opposite bottom: Ayman al-Zawahiri was defendant number 113 of the 302 who were charged with aiding or planning the October 1981 assassination of Anwar al-Sadat. He became spokesperson for the defendants because of his superior English. He is shown here delivering his lecture to the world press in December 1982. Many blame the torture of prisoners in the Egyptian prisons for the savagery of the Islamist movement. “They kicked us, they beat us, they whipped us with electric cables! They shocked us with electricity! And they used the wild dogs!”
The defendants on trial
Left: Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, “the blind sheikh,” was one of the defendants. He was the emir of the Islamic Group at the time.
Left: Mohammed bin Laden came to Saudi Arabia in 1931 as a penniless Yemeni laborer and rose to become the king’s favorite contractor and the man who built much of the infrastructure of the modern Kingdom. He gestures here to Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz during a tour of the renovation of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, circa 1950.
Right: Mohammed bin Laden and King Faisal. During the construction of the road to Taif, King Faisal would often come to examine the progress and ask about cost overruns. When the road was completed, the Kingdom was finally united and Mohammed bin Laden became