Steve Coll - The Bin Ladens

Schwartz, Charles

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Scotland Yard

Securities and Futures Authority, British

Semberg, Yehuda

Semmari, Fahd Al-

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; in New York; Pentagon and; planning of; recruitment for; return of Bin Ladens to Saudi Arabia after

Services Office. See Makhtab Al-Khadamat

Shahin, Robert

Shakir, Ibrahim

Sharbatly, H. A.

shari’a

Sharjah to Khayma road

Sharm El Sheikh

sheikh, use of term

Shias

Shields, Brooke

Shooting Club; shopping malls, shopping

Shorty’s Bar-B-Q

Shtaye, Nadir

Shulman, Robin

Signposts (Qutb)

Signs of the Merciful (Azzam)

Silva, Marta

silver market

Simpson, Dominic

skiing

Skyway Aircraft Leasing, Ltd.

slaves

Sleeping with the Devil (Baer)

SMB Investments

Smith, Michele

SOCAL (Standard Oil Company of California)

soccer

Sockol, Samuel

Solomon, King

Somalia

Soros, George

South Africa; arms dealers from

South America

South Yemen

Soviet Union; in Afghanistan, see Afghanistan, Soviets i Saudi relations with; Sputnik and; U.S. relations with; Yemen and

Sowell, Don

Sowell Aviation

Spetsnaz

sports; Osama’s interest in; Sputnik

Stark, Freya

Starr, Steve

State Department, U.S.; Bechtel and; Griffin in; Mohamed’s company and

Stegner, Wallace

stock, stock market

Stockholm Radio

Story of the Great Expansion (Bakr Bin Laden)

Sudan; British relations with; Hajj pilgrims from; Osama expelled from; Osama’s bank accounts in; Osama’s business and investments in; Osama’s calls to

Sudayri family

“Sudayri Seven,”

Sudeiris

Suez Canal

Sufis, Sufism

Suleiman, Abdullah; alcohol and; background of; business interests of; palace of; Paris medical leave of; retirement of; road building and

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sultan, Khalid Bin

Sultan, Prince (Fahd’s brother)

sunflowers

Sunnis

Surayhi, Hasan Al-

Suri, Abu Musab Al-

Sweden; phone system of

Swift, Linda Pergament

Swiss Bank Corporation

Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property

Switzerland

Syria, Syrians; Arab-Israeli war (1973) and; education in; Hejaz Railway and; Mohamed’s marriages to; Osama’s visits to; revolt in; Saudi educators from

Tabasco sauce

Taif; Bin Laden summerhouse in; education in; road from Mecca to

Taif to Abha road

Taif to Riyadh road

takfir, doctrine of

Taliban; fall of

Taqi Al-Din Ibn Taymiyya

taxes; from pilgrims

Tayyib, Al-Ghazi Madani Al-

telegraph

telephones; portable; satellite; speed dialers for

television; Osama’s views on; Osama’s watching of; protest against; satellite; war and

tents

terrorism; cost of; East Africa embassy bombings and; financing of; first World Trade Center attack and; of Khalifa; of Osama; Palestinian; in Saudi Arabia; see also Al Qaeda; September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Texas; see also specific cities

Texas, University of

Thafiz Al-Koran Al-Kareem

Theroux, Peter

Thomas Summerson & Sons

Thomas Ward, Ltd.

Tickle, Charles

Time

Titan

Top 1000 Saudi Companies

Tora Bora

Toraifi, Adel

Toyland

Toys “R” Us

trade

training camps, for Arab volunteers

Trans World Airlines (TWA)

Treasury bonds, U.S.

Treasury Department, U.S.; Bin Laden disclosures to; Office of Foreign Assets Control of

Trinford Investments S.A.

Truman, Harry

Trump, Donald

Trump, Ivana

Tufts University

Turabi, Hassan Al-

Turkey; see also Ottoman Empire Turki Al-Faisal, prince of Saudi Arabia; jihad in Yemen and

Tuttle, F. Thomas

“UBL Finances Sub-Group,”

ulema

ultralights

ummah (community of believers)

Unger, Craig

United Arab Emirates

United Medical Group

United Nations

United Press International (UPI)

United States; automobiles in; Bin Laden family investments in; education in; Faisal’s visit to; Mohamed’s business with; Nicaraguan Contras and; oil and; Osama in; Osama’s war against; Salem’s business operations in; Saudi corporate business of; Saud’s visits to; stock market in; Sudan’s relations with; telephone industry of; see also specific countries

University of San Francisco

University of Southern California (USC)

Upper Metn Secondary School

Urowsky, Richard J.

usury

van der Meulen, Daniel

Versailles Conference

Victoria College

videotaping

Vinnell Corporation

Vinson and Elkins

Virginia

Vogel, Frank E.

Wadi Doan

Wadi Rakiyah

Wahhab, Mohamed Abdul

Wahhabis; Fahd and; Pakistan proselytizing of; rise of; Saud’s deviation from; women and

Walters, Barbara

waqfs (Islamic trusts)

Washington, D.C.; Afghan embassy in; Fahd summit in; Iridium in; 9/11 and; Saudi embassy in; see also White House

water

Watson, Dale

wazirs (ministers)

Weaver, Sigourney

Wechsler, William

Welch, Jack

“Western Banking Practices and Shari’a Law in Saudi Arabia” (Abdullah Bin Laden)

Westerns

White, Bill

White, Weld & Company

White House; counterterrorism office at; Iridium executives at

William, Prince

Winston, Harry

Wolfowitz, Paul

women: in Afghanistan; Bin Laden, diversity of; inheritance of; lack of information about; modesty and honor around; progressive, Queen Iffat as archetype of; Riyadh Spring and; Salem’s giving of money to; Saud’s views on; veils and; in Wadi Doan

Woodgate West

World Assembly of Muslim Youth

World Bank

World Trade Center; first attack on; second attack on

World War I

World War II

World Wide Web

Wyatt, Oscar

Yaf ’ei, Muhamad Salem Al-

Yemen, Yemenis; Abdullah’s return to; Bin Laden family origins in; Egyptian intervention in; jihad in; money runs and; Osama in; Osama’s bride from; Osama’s calls to; revolution and civil war in; Saudi relations with; terrorism and

York International Corporation

“Young People of Saudi Arabia, The” (British ambassador’s report)

Yousef, Ramzi

Yusufzai, Rahimullah

Zahed, Fouad

Zaidan, Ahmad

zakat fund

Zawahiri, Ayman Al-

Zionism

Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Previously he worked for twenty years at the Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990, traveled widely as a foreign correspondent, and served as the Post ’s managing editor between 1998 and 2004. He is the author of five other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil.

Ghost Wars

On the Grand Trunk Road

Eagle on the Street (with David A. Vise)

The Taking of Getty Oil

The Deal of the Century