The Eleventh Day

Govt. Printing Office, 11/20/55, 74n4, Anthony Summers,

Goddess

, NY: Macmillan, 1985, 182; Hussein sex/“purporting”:

WP

, 5/25/10; video 12/01: transcript by Defense Dept. cited

www.defenselink.mil

,

NYT

, 12/14/01; not ring: e.g., Griffin,

The New Pearl Harbor Revisited

, 209, “Farce: Control of the Village Through Terror,” 2/6/07,

www.opednews.com

; had ring: bin Ladens & Sasson, 282 & see “Confession Video,”

www.911myths.com

; left-handed: David Ray Griffin,

Osama bin Laden

, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Arris, 2009, 30, Bergen,

OBL I Know

, 335; “right-handed”: bin Ladens & Sasson, 159–; reportedly expressed: Griffin,

OBL

, 36).

97 “I knew”: Fury, 286;

98 “This was where”: National Geographic, 12/04.

Part IV: PLOTTERS

CHAPTER 17

1

phenomenon:

Staff Statement 13, CO, Lawrence Wright,

The Looming Tower

, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 176–, CR, 278;

2

target:

James F. Pastor,

Security Law & Methods

, NY: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, 522, 539, Barrett & Collins, 107.

3

OBL visit to U.S.:

bin Ladens & Sasson, 25–, 302, & see (1981 visit)

New Yorker

, 12/14/08. Though the best, firsthand source, Najwa is not the first to refer to an early bin Laden visit to America. Kahled Batarfi, a boyhood friend, has spoken of the episode, offering details that to some extent conform with Najwa’s account. Bin Laden’s sometime supervisor at the family construction firm, Walid al-Khatib, said bin Laden made “trips” to America. Allowing for confusion over the date, Khatib’s and Najwa’s recollections may be corroborated by the account of wealthy Saudi businessman Yassin Kadi. Kadi said he met bin Laden in Chicago in 1981, when the future terrorist leader was recruiting engineers for the family business. Khaled Bahaziq, a boyhood friend of bin Laden who knew Azzam, has recalled that Azzam was “lecturing in America in the 1970s.” He certainly visited repeatedly in the 1980s (Batarfi: Bergen,

OBL I Know

, 22, Coll,

Bin Ladens

209–; Khatib: Coll,

Bin Ladens

, 209–, but see

New Yorker

, 6/30/09, citing Khatib as referring to visiting “once”; Kadi:

NYT

, 12/13/08, Bahaziq: Robert Lacey,

Inside the Kingdom

, London: Hutchinson, 2009, 114–).

4

lectured/led prayers:

Andrew McGregor, “Jihad and the Rifle Alone,”

Journal of Conflict Studies

(Univ. of New Brunswick), Fall 2003, Gilles Kepel,

Jihad

, Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2002, 314, Abdel Bari Atwan,

The Secret History of Al Qaeda

, Berkeley:

Univ. of Calif. Press, 2006, 42, Wright, 95;

5

third-year:

bin Ladens & Sasson, 25;

6

“cleric”:

Gerald Posner,

Secrets of the Kingdom

, NY: Random House, 2005, 36, Bergen,

OBL I Know

, 92;

7

“scholar”:

e.g., Bergen,

OBL I Know

, int. Jamal Ismael, courtesy Paladin InVision, 2006, “Jihad and the Rifle”;

8

village overrun:

bin Ladens & Sasson, 29, Bamford,

Pretext

, 98;

9

“Emir”:

e.g., Anouar Boukhars, “At the Crossroads, Saudi Arabia’s Dilemma,”

Journal of Conflict Studies

(Univ. of New Brunswick), Summer 2006;

10 jihad: John Esposito, Islam, NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, 20–;

11 liberate: Atwan, 73–;