The Eleventh Day

Side,” www.pbs.org;

14 “Unfortunately”/It’s my belief: press release, 6/5/08, http://intelligence.senate.gov, Report, cited above.

15 reputable estimates re deaths: www.iraqbodycount.org, http://icasualties.org. In addition to the American military casualties, more than three hundred non-U.S. troops had died as of early 2011 (Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, www.icasualties.org).

CHAPTER 35

1

“led and financed”:

Richard Falkenrath, “The 9/11 Commission Report,”

International Security

, Vol. 29, Winter 04;

2

only three nations:

CR, 122;

3

“Pakistani military”/“held the key”:

CR, 63–.

4

financial transactions:

Known 9/11-related money transfers were handled out of Dubai in the UAE. In anticipation of pursuit in the wake of the attacks, the al Qaeda agents involved headed for Pakistan.

5

Rawalpindi, headquarters:

Fouda & Fielding, 181;

6

Defense Society:

ibid., 15;

7

Zubaydah caught:

ibid., 20, int. John Kiriakou;

8

“Pakistani people”:

Scheuer,

Osama bin Laden

, 121;

9

“We found”:

ed. Lawrence, 71;

10 “As for Pakistan”: Rashid, 138;

11 called on the faithful: Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 121.

12 “the most complicated”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10;

13 Kashmir: CR, 58, 63–, Coll, Ghost Wars, 292. China also controls part of Kashmir. The region is a tinderbox.

14 Hamid Gul: Rashid, 129;

15 trained in camps: CR, 67, Clinton, 799, Rashid, 137, Coll, Ghost Wars, 341;

16 “Whatever”: Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, 121;

17 security system: Coll, Ghost Wars, 341;

18 “shoehorned”: Time, 8/19/08;

19 “always” support: Foreign Policy Journal, 9/20/10;

20 “actually were”: MFR 03012967, 10/8/03;

21 additional cash: Coll, Ghost Wars, 296;

22 “the most influential”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10, Salon, 10/18/03, Napoleoni, 82;

23 “shadow government”: Coll, Ghost Wars, 296, NYT, 5/12/11;

24 “helplessness”/tensions: MFR 04021470, 12/12/03;

25 commando operation: WP, 12/19/01;

26 Clinton visit/“the moon”: WP, 12/20/01, CR, 183, 503n64;

27 “people who”/“not persuasive”: WP, 12/19/01;

28 Sheehan: Benjamin & Simon, 515;

29 “influential”: Clarke to Rice, 1/25/01;

30 “loss of urgency”: Tenet, 139;

31 “Full Monty”: NYT, 5/12/11.

32 foreknowledge: The authors have seen no evidence of Pakistani involvement in 9/11. Soon after publication of the 9/11 Commission Report, however, the distinguished reporter Arnaud de Borchgrave reported that—according to an “unimpeachable source”—former Pakistani intelligence officers knew beforehand all about the September 11 attacks.” This information, de Borchgrave wrote, had reached the Commission only as its report was being printed. UPI, 8/3/04.

33 “Stone Age”: Musharraf, 201.

34 demands: There are differences between the language of Washington’s demands as rendered in Musharraf’s memoir—seemingly verbatim—and the version reproduced in the 9/11 Commission Report. Musharraf found a demand to help “destroy” bin Laden illogical, he remembered. How could the United States be so sure that bin Laden and al Qaeda were behind 9/11, he wondered, if it was still searching for evidence? Musharraf, 205, CR 331, 558n37.

35 reservations/?cooperated: CR, 331, Musharraf, 206;

36 “We have done”: Musharraf, 223;

37 3,021: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10;

38 some 700/369 handed over/bounty: Musharraf, 237, 369;

39 Grenier: NYT, 5/12/11;

40 best-known: Musharraf, 237–, 220, 240–.

41 “destroy”/“We have done”: Musharraf, 205, 220.

42 “still visiting”: MFR 03012967, 10/8/03;

43 McFarland: Fox News, 1/7/11;

44 “I’m convinced”: “Whatever Happened to bin Laden?,” http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com;

45 “You in the West”/poll: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10;

46 S Section: NYT, 5/12/11;

47 “They were very”: Sunday Times (U.K.), 3/8/08;

48 Better to do/officials: Sunday Times (U.K.), 8/1/10, Fox News, 1/7/11;

49 “We will kill”: transcript, 2nd presidential debate, 10/7/08;

50 no statements: NYT, 10/2/10;

51 “I think”: transcript, Meet the Press, NBC News, 8/15/10;

52 audio messages/still shaped: NYT, 10/2/10;

53 “senior NATO”: CNN, 10/18/10;