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56.
U.S. v. Muhamed Mubayyid, Emadeddin Muntasser, and Samir Al Monla
, Criminal Action No. 05-40026-FDS (2007), FBI wiretap, January 19, 1996, conversation between Kifah Jayyousi and Samir Al Monla and various other wiretaps, Exhibits 273 and 273 (flyers).

57.
USA v. Kifah Wael Jayyousi and Kassem Daher
, Case No. 04-3565RID, Criminal Complaint;
USA v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al.
, 04-60001-CR, April 7, 2005, Fourth Superseding Indictment.

58.
USA v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al.
, 04-60001-CR, April 7, 2005, Fourth Superseding Indictment.

59.
U.S. v. Muhamed Mubayyid, Emadeddin Muntasser, and Samir Al Monla
, Criminal Action No. 05-40026-FDS (2007), FBI wiretap, August 3, 1998, conversation between Kifah Jayyousi and Samir Al Monla.

60.
USA v. Kifah Wael Jayyousi and Kassem Daher
, Case No. 04-3565RID, Criminal Complaint; “Former Agent of Islamic Charity Awaiting Deportation Ruling,”
Associated Press
, October 9, 2002.

61.
USA v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al.
, 04-60001-CR, April 7, 2005, Fourth Superseding Indictment.

62.
Ibid.

63.
FBI FD-302, Interrogation of Jose Padilla, May 8, 2002; Michael Grunwald and Amy Goldstein, “An Unusual Odyssey: U.S.-Born Latino Turns Islamic Terror
Suspect,”
Washington Post
, June 11, 2002. Various media reports have attributed a bewildering number of different gang affiliations to Padilla.

64.
FBI FD-302, Interrogation of Jose Padilla, May 8, 2002.

65.
Manuel Roig-Franzia and Amy Goldstein, “A Bomb Suspect's Search for Identity: In Padilla's Metamorphosis into Al Muhajir, Fla. Provided a Turning Point,”
Washington Post
, June 15, 2002.

66.
Wanda J. Demarzo, Sara Olkon, and Daniel de Vise, “Bomb Suspect Changed His Life in South Florida; Al Qaeda Called Jose Padilla ‘the Immigrant,'”
Miami Herald
, June 12, 2002; FBI FD-302, Interrogation of Jose Padilla, May 8, 2002; and
USA v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al.
, 04-60001-CR, April 7, 2005, Sentencing Memorandum, November 29, 2007.

67.
FBI FD-302, Interrogation of Jose Padilla, May 8, 2002.

68.
USA v. Binyam Ahmed Muhammad
, military commission charge sheet.

69.
David Johnston, “At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared over Tactics,”
New York Times
, September 10, 2006.

70.
Remarks of Deputy Attorney General James Comey regarding Jose Padilla, June 1, 2004, retrieved September 2, 2010,
http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/azizDOJ_PadillaLink.pdf
.

71.
Kat Long, “American Al Qaeda Leader Was at Home on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue,”
New York Examiner
, August 9, 2010, retrieved August 9, 2010,
http://www.examiner.com/historic-places-in-new-york/american-al-qaeda-leader-was-at-home-on-brooklyn-s-atlantic-avenue
.

72.
Josh Meyer, “A Mystery Man Who Keeps the FBI up at Night,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 3, 2006; David Kocieniewski and Peg Tyre, “Feds: Plotters Taped,”
Newsday
, July 2, 1993.

73.
Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt, “From Dishwasher to al Qaeda Leadership: Who Is Adnan Shukrijumah?” CNN.com, August 6, 2010, retrieved August 8, 2010,
http://www.cnn.com/2010/IME/08/06/terror.qaedaleader/?hpt=Mid
.

74.
Lisa J. Huriash, “Former Miramar Man Now Runs al-Qaida, FBI Says. Not True, His Mother Says,”
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
, August 7, 2010; Richard Willing, “Pursuit of Al Qaeda Keeps Coming Back to Fla.,”
USA Today
, June 15, 2004.

75.
Candiotti and Levitt, “From Dishwasher to al Qaeda Leadership: Who Is Adnan Shukrijumah?”; Meyer, “A Mystery Man Who Keeps the FBI up at Night.”

1.
Triple-Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America
(National Geographic Video, 2007).

2.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

3.
Confidential interview with retired U.S. Army officer, October 25, 2008.

4.
Interviews with former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, October 27, 2008, and August 18, 2009.

5.
USA v. bin Laden et al.
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.

6.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

7.
USA v. Usama bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, June 26, 2001;
US v. Usama bin Laden
, court transcript, May 1, 2001.

8.
Orlana Zill, “A Portrait of Wadih El Hage, Accused Terrorist,”
PBS Frontline
, retrieved August 30, 2010;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/upclose/elhage.html
,
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Indictment, November 5, 1998, Superseding Indictment, undated;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, April 16, 2001, Testimony of Mohammed Odeh; Douglas Farah, “Report Says Africans Harbored Al Qaeda: Terror Assets Hidden in Gem-Buying Spree,”
Washington Post
, December 29, 2002;
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

9.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 1, 2001.

10.
Judith Miller, “A Witness against Al Qaeda Says the U.S. Let Him Down,”
New York Times
, June 3, 2002.

11.
Chuck Murphy, “Pilot Led a Quiet Life in Orlando,”
St. Petersburg Times
, October 28, 2001.

12.
9/11 Commission Report
, 224; Phil Hirschkorn, “Roommate: Moussaoui Saw Jihad as Way to Paradise,” CNN.com, March 21, 2006, retrieved August 1, 2010,
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/21/moussaoui.trial/index.html
.

13.
Lance Williams, “Bin Laden's Bay Area Recruiter,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 21, 2001.

14.
Estanislao Oziewicz and Tu Thanh Ha, “Canada Freed Top Al Qaeda Operative: Mounties Released Him after Call to FBI,”
Globe and Mail
, November 22, 2001;
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; and
USA v Ali Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), court transcript, Plea Hearing, October 20, 2000, via
http://cryptome.org/usa-v-mohamed.htm
.

15.
USA v. bin Laden et al.
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.

16.
USA v Ali Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Plea Hearing; Statement of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9/11 Commission), June 16, 2004; and
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 21, 2001, Testimony of L'Houssaine Kherchtou.

17.
Lawrence Wright,
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
(New York: Knopf, 2006), 411n.

18.
USA v. bin Laden et al.
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.;
USA v. Enaam M. Arnaout
, No. 02 CR 892, Government's Evidentiary Proffer Supporting the Admissibility of Coconspirator Statements, January 6, 2003.

19.
Wright,
The Looming Tower
, 222n;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 21, 2001, Testimony of L'Houssaine Kherchtou.

20.
Wright,
The Looming Tower
, 183; Williams, “Bin Laden's Bay Area Recruiter.” The exact date of Zawahiri's trip is disputed.

21.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 21, 2001, Testimony of L'Houssaine Kherchtou.

22.
Susan Sachs, “An Investigation in Egypt Illustrates Al Qaeda's Web,”
New York Times
, November 21, 2001;
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; and Andrew C. McCarthy,
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad
(New York: Encounter Books, 2008), 94–95.

23.
McCarthy,
Willful Blindness
, 94–95.

24.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998; McCarthy,
Willful Blindness
, 301.

25.
McCarthy,
Willful Blindness
, 304;
Triple-Cross
(National Geographic Video, 2007).

26.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Indictment and Superseding Indictment.

27.
USA v. bin Laden et al.
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, February 6, 2001, and subsequent days, Testimony of Jamal Al Fadl.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Author interviews with Tom Corrigan, June 24, 2008, through June 23, 2010, inclusive.

30.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, April 17, 2001.

31.
9/11 Commission Report
, 480.

32.
“Bin Laden's Fatwa,”
PBS News Hour
, retrieved August 4, 2010,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
.

33.
Wright,
The Looming Tower
, 265;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 3, 2001; and Murphy, “Pilot Led a Quiet Life in Orlando.”

34.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 1, 2001.

35.
Ibid., court transcript, February 21, 2001; Kevin Peraino and Evan Thomas, “Odyssey into Jihad,”
Newsweek
, January 14, 2002; Zill, “A Portrait of Wadih El Hage, Accused Terrorist.”

36.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcripts, February 21, 2001, and May 1, 2001; Zill, “A Portrait of Wadih El Hage, Accused Terrorist.”

37.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcripts, March 22, 2001, and May 1, 2001;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Indictment and Superseding Indictment.

38.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

39.
Benjamin Weiser, “Prosecutors Portray the Strands of a Bin Laden Web of Terror,”
New York Times
, January 23, 2000;
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, Exhibit 358.

40.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, May 3, 2001. At one point it was also speculated that O'Sam was Mohammed Atef, the military chief of al Qaeda at that time. Atef was killed in November 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

41.
“Jihad against Jews and Crusaders,” World Islamic Front Statement, February 23, 1998, retrieved August 4, 2010,
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
.

42.
Interview, Osama bin Laden,
PBS Frontline
, May 1998,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html
.

43.
FBI Executive Summary of Findings, International Bulletin, November 18, 1998, retrieved August 4, 2010,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/summary.html
.

44.
USA v Ali Abdelseoud Mohamed
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), Sealed Complaint, Affidavit of Daniel Coleman, September 1998.

45.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, March 20, 2001.

46.
Ibid.

47.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, March 22, 2001;
USA v. bin Laden
, Indictment and Superseding Indictment.

48.
USA v. bin Laden
, S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, court transcript, March 22, 2001;
USA v. bin Laden
, Indictment and Superseding Indictment;
Triple-Cross
(National Geographic Video, 2007); and statement of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9/11 Commission), June 16, 2004.

49.
Murphy, “Pilot Led a Quiet Life in Orlando.”

50.
Tony Rizzo, “KC Man Linked to Early al-Qaida,”
Kansas City Star
, September 9, 2006.

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“Las Cruces History,”
Las Cruces Convention & Visitors Bureau
, retrieved August 25, 2010,
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.

2.
Tom Sharpe, “Radical Iman Traces Roots to N.M.,”
Santa Fe New Mexican
, November 15, 2009.

3.
Bobby Ghosh, “How Dangerous Is the Cleric Anwar Al Awlaki?”
Time
, January 13, 2010.

4.
Scott Shane and Souad Mekhennet, “From Condemning Terror to Preaching Jihad,”
New York Times
, May 9, 2010.