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13.
Amy Argetsinger, “Muslim Teen Made Conversion to Fury,”
Washington Post
, December 2, 2004.

14.
Jeffrey Smith, “A Bosnian Village's Terrorist Ties,”
Washington Post
, March 11, 2000; Esad Hecimovic, “Mysteries Surround 1997 B-H Murder Victim Misidentified as Terrorist Hisham Diab,”
Sarajevo Dani
, January 14, 2010; George Michael, “Adam Gadahn and Al Qaeda's Internet Strategy,”
Middle East Policy
(Fall 2009).

15.
Raffi Khatchadourian, “Azzam the American: The Making of an Al Qaeda Homegrown,”
New Yorker
, January 22, 2007.

16.
Khatchadourian, “Azzam the American”; Michael, “Adam Gadahn and Al Qaeda's Internet Strategy.”

17.
Khatchadourian, “Azzam the American.”

18.
Azzam the American
, al Qaeda propaganda video

19.
Voice of the Caliphate
, al Qaeda propaganda video; Daniel Williams, “
Voice of Caliphate
Web Broadcast Speaks of Joy over US Hurricane,”
Washington Post
, September 25, 2005.

20.
The State of the Ummah
, al Qaeda propaganda video.

21.
The 19 Martyrs
, al Qaeda propaganda video.

22.
Various al Qaeda propaganda videos.

23.
The Mujahideen Don't Target Muslims
, al Qaeda propaganda video; “Al Qaeda ‘Not behind Pakistan Bloodshed': US Militant,” AFP, December 12, 2009.

24.
Department of Defense,
Summary of Jose Padilla's Activities with Al Qaeda
, May 28, 2004.

25.
USA v. Binyam Ahmed Muhammad
, Military Commission Charge Sheet, undated.

26.
Abby Goodnough and Scott Shane, “Padilla Is Guilty on All Charges in Terror Trial,”
New York Times
, August 16, 2007.

27.
Richard Willing, “Pursuit of Al Qaeda Keeps Coming Back to Fla.,”
USA Today
, June 15, 2004; 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/CRIME/08/06/terror.qaeda.leader/?hpt=Mid
.

28.
Willing, “Pursuit of Al Qaeda Keeps Coming Back to Fla.”

29.
Chitra Ragavan, “A Hunt for `the Pilot': The FBI Says He's an `Imminent Threat.' But Where Is He?”
US News and World Report
, March 30, 2003.

30.
Michael Wilson, “From Smiling Coffee Vendor to Terror Suspect,”
New York Times
, September 26, 2009.

31.
David Johnston and Al Baker, “Denver Man Admits to a Possible Al Qaeda Connection, Officials Say,”
New York Times
, September 19, 2009.

32.
Wilson, “From Smiling Coffee Vendor to Terror Suspect.”

33.
Candiotti and Levitt, “From Dishwasher to al Qaeda leadership: Who Is Adnan Shukrijumah?”

34.
Ibid.

35.
James Barron and Michael S. Schmidt, “From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect,”
New York Times
, May 4, 2010.

36.
Andrea Elliott, “Militant's Path from Pakistan to Times Square,”
New York Times
, June 22, 2010.

37.
See
http://documents.nytimes.com/e-mail-from-faisal-shahzad?ref=nyregion
, retrieved June 28, 2010.

38.
Elliott, “Militant's Path from Pakistan to Times Square.”

39.
See
http://documents.nytimes.com/e-mail-from-faisal-shahzad?ref=nyregion
, retrieved June 28, 2010.

40.
Syed Shoaib Hasan, “Profile: Islamabad's Red Mosque,”
BBC News
, July 27, 2007, retrieved June 28, 2010,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6503477.stm
.

41.
“Pakistani Soldiers Storm Mosque,”
BBC News
, July 10, 2007, retrieved June 28, 2010,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6286500.stm
.

42.
Elliott, “Militant's Path from Pakistan to Times Square.”

43.
Mark Hosenball, “Mysteries Persist despite Shahzad's Times Square Guilty Plea,” Newsweek.com, June 22, 2010, retrieved June 28, 2010,
http://www. newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/06/22/mysteries-persist-despite-times-square-guilty-plea.html
.

44.
USA v. Faisal Shahzad
, 1:10-mj-00928-UA, Criminal Complaint, May 4, 2010.

45.
See
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/pakistani_taliban_cl.php
, retrieved June 28, 2010.

46.
See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/kashmir/front.html
, retrieved August 15, 2010.

47.
Letter from Randall Royer to Judge Leonie Brinkema, March 31, 2004.

48.
USA v. Randall Royer et al.
, CR 03-296-A, Grand Jury Indictment, June 2003 term, undated.

49.
Karen Branch-Brioso, “Terrorism Suspect Says He's a Victim of Coincidence, Muslim Stereotypes,”
Port St. Lucie/Fort Pierce
(
Florida Tribune
), July 1, 2003.

50.
Letter from Randall Royer to Judge Leonie Brinkema, March 31, 2004.

51.
Federal Register: March 19, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 53), Notices, Page 12633–12635, retrieved August 16, 2010,
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/03/fr031902s.html
.

52.
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000
, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, April 30, 2001, retrieved August 16, 2010,
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2000/2450.htm
;
USA v. Randall Royer et al.
, CR 03-296-A, Grand Jury Indictment, June 2003 term, undated.

53.
Letter from Randall Royer to Judge Leonie Brinkema, March 31, 2004.

54.
USA v. Randall Royer et al.
, CR 03-296-A, Grand Jury Indictment, June 2003 term, undated.

55.
Laura Sullivan, “11 Terror Suspects Indicted; U.S. Alleges Men Were Planning Possible Attacks Abroad,”
Chicago Tribune
, June 28, 2003.

56.
U.S. Department of Justice press release, “Defendants Convicted in Northern Virginia ‘Jihad' Trial,” retrieved August 16, 2010,
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2004/March/04_crm_139.htm
; “Two Defendants in Virginia Jihad Case Plead Guilty to Weapons Charges, Will Cooperate with Ongoing Investigation,” retrieved August 16, 2010,
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2004/January/04_crm_030.htm
; and Jerry Markon, “Muslim Lecturer Sentenced to Life; Followers Trained for Armed Jihad,”
Washington Post
, July 14, 2005.

57.
Letter from Randall Royer to Judge Leonie Brinkema, March 31, 2004.

58.
Joe Barret, Douglas Belkin, Peter Loftus, and Eric Bellman, “For Terror Suspect, a Life of Contradictions,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 12, 2009; Sally A. Downey, “A. Serrill Headley, 68; Owned Phila.'s Khyber Pass Pub,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, January 25, 2008.

59.
Barret, Belkin, Loftus, and Bellman, “For Terror Suspect, a Life of Contradictions.”

60.
Downey, “A. Serrill Headley, 68; Owned Phila.'s Khyber Pass Pub.”

61.
Barret, Belkin, Loftus, and Bellman, “For Terror Suspect, a Life of Contradictions.”

62.
USA v. David Coleman Headley
, 09 CR 830-3, Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict; Jane Perlez, “American Terror Suspect Traveled Unimpeded,”
New York Times
, March 26, 2010.

63.
Ibid., Plea Agreement, March 13, 2010.

64.
Ibid.

65.
See
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=45446
, retrieved July 10, 2010;
USA v. David Coleman Headley
, 09 CR 830-3, Plea Agreement, March 13, 2010.

66.
USA v. David Coleman Headley
, 09 CR 830-3, Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict.

67.
Ginger Thompson, “A Terror Suspect with Feet in East and West,”
New York Times
, November 22, 2009.

68.
USA v. David Coleman Headley
, 09 CR 830-3, Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict.

69.
Ibid.

70.
USA v. David Coleman Headley
, 09 CR 830-3, Plea Agreement, March 13, 2010.

71.
“NIA Charge Sheet against David Headley Soon,”
Hindustan Times
, July 7, 2010.

72.
“David Headley Used Choicest Hindi Expletives for NIA Grillers,”
India Today
, July 10, 2010.

73.
See
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html
, retrieved August 11, 2010.

74.
Xan Rice, “Somali Hardliner Calls for Foreign Jihadists,”
Observer
, December 24, 2006.

75.
Mohamed Abdi Farah, “Somalia: ICU Leaders Resign as Ethiopian Army Nears the Capital,”
SomaliNet News
,
http://web.archive.org/web/20070110230438/http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/6223
, retrieved August 11, 2010.

76.
Country Reports on Terrorism 2009, U.S. State Department, retrieved August 11, 2010,
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2009/140900.htm
.

77.
Nir Rosen, “How Did Al Shabab Emerge from the Chaos of Somalia?”
Time
, August 20, 2010.

78.
Testimony by Stevan Weine, M.D., professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment,
Hearing on Violent Extremism: How Are People Moved from Constitutionally Protected Thought to Acts of Terrorism?
December 15, 2009.

79.
Weine,
Hearing on Violent Extremism;
question by the author to Terrance Ford, director of Intelligence and Knowledge Development, United States Army African Command at a Foreign Policy Research Institute conference on September 27, 2010.

80.
Weine,
Hearing on Violent Extremism.

81.
Kristina Davis and Michael Stetz, “Acquaintances Recall Terror Suspect,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
, August 7, 2010;
USA v. Jehad Serwan Mostafa
, Case 3:09-cr-03726-WQH, Grand Jury Indictment, October 9, 2009; and Terry Rodgers, “‘No War,' Crowds Implore: Thousands Rally at Park against Conflict in Iraq,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
, March 17, 2003.

82.
The following section is derived mainly from the following two exceptionally reported pieces: Andrea Elliott, “The Jihadist Next Door,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 31, 2010; and “American Jihadi,”
Vanguard
, Current TV, air date June 30, 2010.

83.
USA v. Daniel Maldonado
, 4:07-mj-00125, Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.

84.
USA v. Zachary Adam Chesser
, CR 1:10 MS504, Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint.

85.
Ambush At Bardal
, Al Shabab propaganda video.

86.
Ibid.

87.
Ibid.

88.
Various nasheeds, Al Shabab propaganda videos.

89.
Festival for the Children of Martyrs
, Al Shabab propaganda video.

90.
Nicole Santa Cruz, “San Diego Woman Accused of Aiding Somalia Terrorist Group,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 28, 2010.

91.
Derrick Nunnally, Kathleen Brady Shea, and Larry King, “‘JihadJane's” Life Like a ‘Country Music Song,'”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, March 11, 2010.

92.
Ian Urbina, “Militant Views Were Expressed Online but Unknown to Neighbors,”
New York Times
, March 11, 2010.

93.
Carrie Johnson, “JihadJane, an American Woman, Faces Terrorism Charges,”
Washington Post
, March 10, 2010.

94.
Stephanie Simon, “Paulin-Ramirez's Actions Raised Mother's Concerns,” Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2010; Devlin Barrett, “Jamie Paulin-Ramirez Charged In ‘Jihad Jane' Case, Plot To Kill Swedish Cartoonist,”
Huffington Post
, April 2, 2010, retrieved December 3, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/jamie-paulinramirez-will-_n_523648.html
.

Chapter 11. The Keyboard and the Sword

1.
U.S. v. Muhamed Mubayyid, Emadeddin Muntasser, and Samir Al Monla
, Criminal Action No. 05-40026-FDS (2007), Exhibit 514A, transcript of phone conversation of January 27, 1996.

2.
Andrew North, “Pro-Jihad Website Draws Readers,”
BBC News
, February 15, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1823045.stm
, retrieved July 24, 2010; “The Battle to Banish Babar Ahmad,”
BBC News
, November 16, 2005,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4441680.stm
, retrieved July 24, 2010.

3.
See
http://www.islamicawakening.com/helpus.php
, retrieved July 24, 2010;
Al-Jihad: The Neglected Duty
, Muhammad Abdul Salam Faraj (Boston: CARE International, undated).

4.
See
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/
, retrieved July 24, 2010.

5.
See
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/america-one-sick-place-24585/
, retrieved on various dates.

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