The Looming Tower (73 page)
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 It has superseded teletypes as a formal communication.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 above Khost:
interview with Ali Soufan.
“We were playing”:
videotape of bin Laden’s dinner with Sheikh Ali Saeed al-Ghamdi.
banned all talk of dreams:
Sageman,
Understanding Terror Networks
, 117.
America in ashes:
Peter Finn, “Hamburg’s Cauldron of Terror,”
Washington Post
, September 11, 2002.
357
nine thousand gallons:
Der Spiegel,
Inside 9-11
, 50.
O’Neill helped usher:
Weiss,
The Man Who Warned America
, 366.
“Wait, wait”:
interview with Ali Soufan.
358
held up three fingers:
Mike Boettcher, “Detainees Reveal bin Laden’s Reaction to Attacks,” CNN.com, September 10, 2002.
359
north tower:
Details of the scene inside come from interviews with Kurt Kjeldsen and Michael Hingson; the video footage shot by Jules and Gedeon Naudet; Murphy,
September 11
; Fink and Mathias,
Never Forget;
and Smith,
Report from Ground Zero
.
“Is it true”:
interview with Wesley Wong.
360
dust was a compound:
Anthony DePalma, “What Happened to That Cloud of Dust?”
New York Times
, November 2, 2005.
20. Revelations
363
Quso and Abu Jandal interrogations:
interviews with Ali Soufan and Robert McFadden.
368
special protocol:
Weiss,
The Man Who Warned America
, 383.
370
“We planned”:
John R. Bradley, “Definitive Translation of ‘Smoking Gun’ Tape.” www.johnrbradley.com/art_27.htm, July 15, 2004. translated by Ali al-Ahmed.
“I never knew”:
interview with Maha Elsamneh.
371
Tora Bora:
Smucker,
Al-Qaeda’s Great Escape
, 119-20.
“We were about”:
bin Laden audiotape: “Message to Our Muslim Brothers in Iraq,” BBCNews.com, February 12, 2003.
“Only a few”:
“Al-Majellah Obtains bin Ladin’s Will,”
Al-Majellah
, October 27, 1992. Translated by FBIS.
372
“I saw a heavy”:
Ilene R. Prusher, “Two Top al-Qaeda Leaders Spotted,”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 26, 2002.
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Nicholas Abbott | R. Scott Appleby |
Abdelaziz Osman Abdelaziz | Gustavo de Aristegui |
Tourabi Abdellah | Grant Ashley |
Genieve Abdo | Saad Asswailim |
Khaled S. Abu Rashid | Ghazi Salah Eddin Atabani |
Hafez Abu Saada | Abdel Bari Atwan |
Victor Abu Said | Gerald L. Auerbach |
Asma Afsaruddin | Juan Avilés |
Iftikhar Ahmad | Mohammed Saleem al-Awa |
Ali al-Ahmed | Mohsin al-Awaji |
Reem Akkad | Mohammed al-Awwam |
Abu Ala-Mady | Hussein al-Aydi |
Alaweed bin Talal | Javed Aziz |
Mohammed Alawwan | Sahar Aziz |
Hamid Algar | Talal bin Abdul Aziz |
Mirza Ali | Mahfouz Azzam |
Mohammed Jasim el-Ali | Maha Azzam |
Bassim A. Alim | Omar Mahfouz Azzam |
Mohammed Alim | Nadia ba-Ashen |
Tariq Ali Alireza | Yahia Hussein Babiker |
Fouad Allam | Ahmed M. Badeeb |
Jeff Allen | Saeed Badeeb |
Graham Allison | Robert Baer |
Rogelio Alonzo | Omar Bagour |
Abdel Monem Said Aly | Faisel Bajaber |
Faiza Salah Ambah | Ramesh Balon |
Michael Ameen Jr. | Gamal al-Banna |
Abdullah Anas | Shmuel Bar |
Frank Anderson | Tom Barfield |
Lars Erslev Anderson | Michael Barrett |
Sami Angawi | Hasan Basweid |
John M. Anticev | Khaled Batarfi |
Michael Anticev | Faisal Batewil |
Mohammed Loay Baizid | Frank Cilluffo |
Milt Bearden | Richard A. Clarke |
Waquih Bector | Jack Cloonan |
Mohammed bin Nasser Belfas | Ray Close |
Harlen L. Bell | Charles Cogan |
Daniel Benjamin | Daniel J. Coleman |
Robert Bentley | Denis Collins |
Peter L. Bergen | Elizabeth O. Colton |
Sandy Berger | John Cooley |
James Bernazzani, Jr. | Thomas F. Corrigan |
Khaled al-Berri | Dina Corsi |
Abdullah M. Binladen | Juan Cotino |
Saleh M. Binladen | Roger Cressey |
Mohammed A. bin Mahfooz | Dominik Cziesche |
Sultan bin Salman | Pasquale D’Amuro |
Alaweed bin Talal | Saeb Dajani |
Ghazi Faisal Binzagr | Thomas G. Donlon |
Jochen Bittner | Essam Deraz |
Robert Blitzer | Aida Self el-Dawla |
Philip Bobbitt | Sarah al-Deeb |
Waguih Boctor | Agustín Diaz |
Barbara Bodine | Anna DiBattista |
Steven A. Bongardt | Tom Dillon |
Arnaud de Borchgrave | Teodoro Gómez Domínguez |
Theron Bouman | Kevin Donovan |
H. Braxton | Joseph Doorley |
Jean-Charles Brisard | Mary Deborah Doran |
Peter T. R. Brooks | Eleanor Doumato |
Rachel Bronson | Joshua L. Dratel |
Jean-Louis Bruguiere | Abdel Aziz al-Dukheil |
Ihsan Ali bu-Hulaiga | Carson Dunbar |
Paul Busick | Charles Dunbar |
Malik A. Ruiz Callejas | Joseph Dunne |
Robert Callus | Elizabeth Durkee |
John Calvert | Jack Eckenroad |
Greg Campbell | Mohamed Salah Eddin |
Antonio Cañizares | R. P. Eddy |
Vincent Cannistraro | Mohamed al-Edrisi |
Joseph Cantemessa | Paul Eedle |
Yigal Carmon | Abdel Wahab el-Effendi |
Timothy Carney | Michael E. Elsner |
Jacobo Teijelo Casanova | Steven Emerson |
Sharon Chadha | Javier Jordán Enamorado |
David Chambers | Elfatih Erwa |
Robert Chambers | Emilio Lamo de Espinosa |
Gary Chapman | Essam el-Eryan |
Françoise Chipaux | John Esposito |
Khaled Abou el-Fadl | Hamid Gul |
Abdulaziz H. Fahad | Rohan Gunaratna |
Mandi Fahmy | Lou Gunn |
Amr Mohamed al-Faisal | Allan P. Haber |
Reem al-Faisal | Kamal al-Sayyid Habib |
Saud al-Faisal | Herb Haddad |
Turki al-Faisal | Deborah Hadwell |
Mahmoun Fandy | Sayeed Abdul Hafez |
Saad al-Faqih | Mohammed M. Hafez |
Juan Avilés Farré | Ali el-Haj |
Jamil Farsi | Lisa Gordon Haggerty |
Najla Fathi | Abdul Rahman Haggog |
Haizam Amirah Fernández | Berhan Hailu |
Elizabeth Fernia | Yousef A. al-Hamdan |
Robert Fernia | Khaled al-Hammadi |
Al Finch | Andrew Hammond |
Walid A. Fitaihi | Hussein Haqqani |
Patrick Fitzgerald | Hasan al-Harithi |
Peggy A. Ford | Mamdouh al-Harithi |
Yosri Fouda | Mohamed Haroun |
Wyche Fowler | Elias Harfouche |
Charles E. Frahm | Peter Harrigan |
Stephen Franklin | Tom Hartwell |
Louis J. Freeh | Saad Hasaballah |
Alan Fry | Khalid Hasan |
Graham Fuller | Janullah Hashimzada |
Abdel Moneim Abdel Futuh | Badreldin Hassan |
Neal Gallagher | Hamza al-Hassan |
Mary E. Galligan | Sulaiman al-Hatlan |
Kathy Gannon | Suliman Hathout |
Antonio Maldonado García | Hasan Hatrash |
Benigno Pendás García | Jerome Hauer |
Enrique García | Thomas Hegghammer |
Mike Garcia | Kamal Helbawy |
Paul Garmirian | Clement Henry |
Diego López Garrido | Neil Herman |
Baltazar Garzón | Ibrahim Hilal |
Stephen J. Gaudin | Michael Hingson |
F. Gregory Gause III | Frank Hodgkins |
Fawaz Gerges | Bruce Hoffman |
Hussein Abdel Ghani | Tariq al-Homayed |
Kevin P. Giblin | Ibrahim Hooper |
Hao Gilbertson | Fahmi Howeidi |
Heather Gregg | Steven Hughes |
Klaus Grünewald | Mohammed I. al-Hulwah |
Stanley Guess | Malik Hussein |
Hosnya Guindy | Len Hutton |
Hussein Ibish | Judith Kipper |
Abdel Wahab Ibrahim | Kirk Kjeldsen |
Dina Ibrahim | Bernard Kleinman |
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Bassma Kodmani |
Bob Inman | Evan Kohlmann |
Ibrahim Insari | Michael Kortan |
José María Irujo | May Kutbi |
Christopher Isham | Ben Kuth |
Farraj Ismail | Robert Lacey |
Jamal Ismail | Stéphane Lacroix |
Mamdouh Ismail | Donna Lee Lakin |
Mahnaz Ispahani | Frank Lakin |
Edward Jajko | Salah Lamei |
Ali A. Jalali | Ted Landreth |
Kevin James | Thomas F. Lang |
Valerie James | Mohamed abd al-Latif |
Edward Jeep | Fernando Lázaro |
Josef Joffe | Rodney Leibowitz |
Chris Johnson | Eric Lewis |
Keith Johnson | Richard Lind |
Rocio Millán Johnson | James Lindley |
Robert Jordan | John Lipka |
Adl al-Jubair | John J. Liguori |
Nail al-Jubair | David Long |
James K. Kallstrom | Bernabe López García |
Salah Abd al-Kareem | Douglas MacEachin |
Hisham Kassem | Petros Machas |
Mahmoud Kassem | Dittmar Machele |
Theodore Kattouf | Khaled al-Maeena |
Rita Katz | Naguib Mahfouz |
Elaine Kaufman | Wissal al-Mahdi |
Joseph Kechichian | Saddiq al-Mahdi |
David Kelley | Abdulaziz I. al-Mana |
Gilles Kepel | Abd al-Haleem Mandour |
Abdul Rahman Khadr | Jay C. Manning |
Zaynab Ahmed Khadr | Manuela Marín |
Jamal Khalifa | Saad M. Mariq |
Ashraf Khalil | Jonathan Marshall |
Imran Khan | Bobby Martin |
Ismail Khan | Georg Mascolo |
Javed Aziz Khan | Rihab M. Massoud |
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi | Barry Mawn |
Khalid Khawaja | Kenneth J. Maxwell |
Mohammed al-Khereiji | Ernest May |
Ramzi Khouri | Andrew McCarthy |
Kathryn Kilgore | Pete McCloskey Jr. |
Daniel Kimmage | Ken McConnellogue |
Janet McElligot | M. Arif Noorzai |
Robert McFadden | Essam Noweira |
John McKillop | Ayman Nur |
Jaime McLendon | Christine O’Neill |
Frances Meade | J. P. O’Neill |
Richard A Meade | Hugh O’Rourke |
Dominic Medley | Nawaf Obaid |
Amin el-Mehdi | Mohammed S. al-Odadi |
Roel Meijer | Hassabulla Omer |
Moneir Mahmoud Aly el-Messery | Fathi Osman |
Cordula Meyer | George Pagoulatis |
John J. Miller | Emiliano Burdiel Pascual |
Marty Miller | Reuven Paz |
