The Bin Ladens

Corporation. Vituperative lawsuits: Khalil Binladin and Isabel Bin Laden v. American Builders, op. cit., and cross complaints.

8. Interviews with three individuals, op. cit. Frisaura said that Khalil Bin Laden was an honorable businessman, but that he would make no additional comment.

9. Leasing dispute history: America in Motion Corp. v. Magnum Aircraft International, Los Angeles County Superior Court, NWC043648. “a small corporation…$225,000 jet”: Declaration of Darius Keaton, ibid., March 9, 1989. No judgment or settlement: E-mail communication from Kevin S. Marks, attorney for Clint Eastwood, September 7, 2007.

10. “a chartered accountant in Pakistan”: Proposed Joint Statement of the case, Ron R. Goldie, America in Motion and Khalil Binladin v. Ron R. Goldie, op. cit. Also, Khan’s statement of the case, Khalil’s deposition testimony and declarations, ibid.

11. “an undivided…Massachusetts”: Goldie proposed statement, ibid. Resun history: Company Web site, examined and typed, June 5, 2007. The company did not respond to a request for comment.

12. “Rebate”: Excerpted deposition testimony of Khalil Bin Laden, ibid. “kick back”: Letter from Ali-Khan to Khalil Bin Laden, February 28, 1989, ibid. Debt to Indosuez exceeded $3 million: Letter from Ali-Khan to Khalil Bin Laden, May 31, 1989, “Situation Report.” Default: In excerpted deposition testimony, Mark Love acknowledges receipt of a default notice from Indosuez, although he describes this as “just a technical issue on behalf of the bank.”

13. “loan”: Letter from Ali-Khan to Bin Laden, May 26, 1989, “Re: Your Fax…” ibid. “my personal guarantee”: Letter from Ali-Khan to Bin Laden, May 31, 1989, “Situation Report.” “Please provide…a copy”: Letter from Bin Laden to Ali-Khan, May 23, 1989, “Re: Your fax…” “The faxes…guaranteed”: Letter from Khalil Bin Laden to Ali- Khan, date illegible, June 1989. All from court file, ibid.

14. “the $130,000…by Khan”: Declaration of Khalil Bin Laden, July 13, 1992, ibid. September 22, 1989: Los Angeles Police Department preliminary investigation report, ibid. “if this…this form”:” Excerpted deposition testimony of Khalil Bin Laden, ibid.

15. The People of the State of California v. Mussarat Ali Khan, “Felony Complaint for Arrest Warrant.” “possible international…in Paris”: “Declaration for Bail Deviation,” filed in America in Motion Corporation and Khalil Binladin v. Ron R. Goldie et al., op. cit.

16. Declaration of Geoffrey Morson, ibid.

17. Declaration of Khalil Bin Laden, ibid.

18. “unable to leave…pay monies”: Elizabeth Borges responses to interrogatories, Isabel Binladin v. Elizabeth Borges, Los Angeles County Superior Court, SC003124.

19. All quotations, Elizabeth Borges responses to interrogatories, ibid.

20. “slanderous…Saudi Arabian visas”: Bin Laden complaint, September 5, 1990, ibid.

21. All quotations, ibid.

22. All quotations, Borges answer to the complaint, ibid.

23. Interview with an individual familiar with the transaction who asked to not be identified.

27. THE SWISS ACCOUNTS

1. The August 6 meeting has been described similarly, with slight variations, in a number of published accounts. Schwarzkopf on his knee: Freeman quoted in The House of Saud, Algeria Productions, 2004. See also Bronson, Thicker Than Oil, pp. 194–95; Clarke, Against All Enemies, pp. 57–59. Lippman, Inside the Mirage, pp. 300–1.

2. “Don’t you think…take your point”: Freeman, ibid. “Okay”: Lippman, ibid.

3. “to increase…of Muslims”: Lawrence (ed.), Messages to the World, pp. 198– 99.

4. Family foundation, previous accounts in a Swiss bank: Interviews with international banking officials who asked to not be identified. The Swiss Bank Corporation account documents were submitted as exhibits by lawyers for the Bin Ladens in In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 03 MDL 157. “Sub-accounts…invasion of Kuwait”: Affidavit of Omar Bin Laden, January 25, 2006, In Re Terrorist Attacks.

5. All account document quotations, dates, financial transfers, from original account documents submitted by attorneys for the Bin Ladens in In Re Terrorist Attacks, ibid.

6. “has been forbidden…your economy”: Messages to the World, op. cit., p. 167.

7. Interview with Khaled Batarfi, February 19, 2005.

8. Islamists in South Yemen: Interview with Dominic Simpson, former British intelligence officer who served in both Saudi Arabia and Yemen, May 17, 2002. “did have…funded everything”: “Interview with Shaykh Al-Fadli On Aden-Abyan Islamic Army…” Al-Quds Al-Arabi, November 8, 2001, FBIS translation. See also “Yemen’s Enduring Challenges…” TerrorismMonitor, Jamestown Foundation, Volume II, Issue 7, April 8, 2004, interview with former U.S. Treasury official Jonathan Winer.

9. “had reportedly asked…regime”: Against All Enemies, op. cit., p. 59. “came to see me…not acceptable idea”: Quoted in Meeting Osama Bin Laden, Brook Lapping Productions, 2004.

10. Badeeb: Interview with Orbit Television, tape provided by Badeeb to the author, translated by The Language Doctors, Inc. Raid on Bin Laden’s farm: Sharaf Al-Din, Bin Laden…the Arab Afghans, pp. 52–53.

11. Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 222. Prince’s identity: Osama says it was the “deputy minister,” who at the time of the meeting would have been Abdul-Rahman, but at the time of Osama’s statement, the deputy was Khalid Bin Sultan.

12. Messages to the World, op. cit., p. 257.

13. “This shy…changed”: Quoted in Meeting Osama Bin Laden, op. cit.

14. Affidavit of Omar Bin Laden, In Re Terrorist Attacks, op. cit. All quotations from the U.S. military are from documents submitted by Bin Laden attorneys in In Re Terrorist Attacks.

15. Al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia, p. 168.

16. Ibid., p. 167. Also, Fandy, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent, pp. 48– 52.

17. “He apologized…peaceful way”: Interview with Abdulaziz Al-Gasim, February 8, 2005.

18. Interview with Jamal Khashoggi, March 17, 2006. All quotations from Khashoggi, “To Be Strong by Spreading Fear,” Al Watan Al Arabi, April 5, 2005.

19. May 1: Messages to the World, op. cit. p. 33. Left voluntarily: Affidavit of Bakr Bin Laden, In Re Terrorist Attacks, January 25, 2006. Sudan rentals, farm north of Khartoum, $250,000, Egyptian lawyer: Testimony of Jamal Al-Fadl, United States of America v. Usama bin Laden et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York, S 98 Cr. 539, February 6, 2001. “spent some time…economic activities”: Interview with Khalil A. Khalil, February 10, 2005.

20. Messages to the World, pp. 49–50.

21. All Bruderlein quotations from Affidavit of Yves Bruderlein, In Re Terrorist Attacks, January 24, 2006, and “Minutes of a Witness Statement,” The Office of the Swiss Federal Public Prosecutor, Bern, October 9, 2001, submitted as an exhibit in the same case.

22. Affidavit of Bakr Bin Laden, op. cit.

23. October 28 transfer: Account documents, op. cit., In Re Terrorist Attacks. Money went initially to Haider’s custody: Interview with two individuals familiar with the transaction, who asked to not be identified. Last known use of Western banks: Michael Scheuer, writing as “Anonymous,” the former chief of the CIA unit that tracked Osama’s finances during the late 1990s, writes in Through Our Enemies’