Anthony Summers - The Eleventh Day

19 Pope/“Just some”/“Saeed” arrest: WP , 12/30/01.

20 tortured/“Agents hit”:Vitug & Gloria, 223, McDermott, 153. The reporters were Marites Dañguilan Vitug, who has reported for Newsweek and The Christian Science Monitor , and Glenda Gloria, who holds a master’s degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics. The reporting cited here is from the award-winning book on the Muslim rebellion in Mindanao, in the eastern Philippines. (Vitug & Gloria, 222–).

21 transcript:Murad Interrogation, 1/7/95, posted at www.thesmokinggun.com, & see NY Daily News , 7/24/96, Ressa, 39–;

22 Murad/“to blow up”/​summoned/​disguises/​watches:FBI 302 of int. Abdul Hakim Ali Murad, 5/11/95, “Various Interrogation Reports,” B24, T1, CF, Lance, 1000 Years , 259;

23 device in theater:Reeve, 77, Benjamin & Simon, 493, Lance, 1000 Years , 236–;

24 Italian/bomb:Lance, 1000 Years , 237–, Reeve, 78–;

25 Murad bomb/Parker pen/“cause”:FBI 302 of int. Abdul Hakim Ali Murad; United Flight 2:Philippine National Police (PNP) “After Debriefing Report,” 1/17/95;

26 11 airliners/terrorists:Reeve, 90–, 94–;

27 “TIMER”: WP , 12/20/01;

28 airlines alerted/grounded:Richard Clarke, 93–, MFR 04017178, 11/21/03, Lance, Triple Cross , 441;

29 4,000 could have died:Reeve, 90.

30 “BOJINKA”:Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly told CIA interrogators after 9/11 that bojinka was not a Serbo-Croatian word for “big bang,” as reported—just “a nonsense word he adopted after hearing it on the front lines in Afghanistan.” The authors have been unable to pin down a meaning for the word in Serbo-Croat, but there is a Croatian word bočnica , meaning “boom” (explosion: Time , 1/1/95; loud bang: WP , 5/19/02; big bang: www.FrontPageMagazine.com, 5/20/02; boom: www.eudict.com; “a nonsense”: CR, 488n7).

31 Yousef arrested:Katz, 162–, 186–, Reeve, 101;

32 cooperative Bhutto:John Esposito, Political Islam , Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997, 150;

33 face trial:Reeve, 237;

34 Found guilty/“I am”:ibid., 242, CNN, 9/5/96, 11/12/97;

35 240 years: NYT , 4/5/03.

36 helicopter/​“See”:Coll, Ghost Wars , 272. This exchange has been described several times, with varying details. They are summarized by author Peter Lance in his book 1000 Years for Revenge , 298, 482n13;

37 prostrate:Lance, 1000 Years , 9–;

38 mastermind:Coll, Ghost Wars , 273, NYT , 4/12/95—citing Al Hayat; leaders inspired:Coll, Ghost Wars , 272.

39 “substantial”:Staff Statement 15, CO, Peter Lance, Cover-Up , NY: Regan, 2004, 209—the staff member was Douglas MacEachin;

40 camp:Corbin, 46–, Reeve, 120, Benjamin & Simon, 8, 503n14, Los Angeles Times , 9/11/02 & see Evan Kohlmann, “Expert Report I: U.S. v. Oussama Kassir,” 3/09;

41 “emissary”:Abuza, “Balik Terrorism”;

42 separatist: Time , 6/17/02, Reeve, 136, 156–;

43 manual: NYT , 1/14/01, 6/9/02, Lance, 1000 Years , 110;

44 calls:Reeve, 47–, Lance, 1000 Years , 234;

45 Beit Ashuhada:“Summary of Captioned Investigation as of 11/4/01,” PENTTBOM, 11/5/01, authors’ collection, Cooley, 102, “State Dept. Fact Sheet on Bin Laden,” 8/14/96 reprinted in Brisard & Dasquié, 169.

46 “good friend”/“trenches”:transcript int. of OBL for ABC News, Frontline: “ Hunting bin Laden,” www.pbs.org, Miller & Stone, 138–, 189. The separatist leader with whom Yousef had early contact in the Philippines was Abdurajak Janjalani, the founder of the extremist Abu Sayyaf group. As identified in a previous note, the companion refused admission was Ahmad Ajaj. The Yousef accomplice who had fought with bin Laden was Wali Kahn Amin Shah (Reeve, 136, 156–, CR, 59).

47 Shaikha/​“Imagine”:CNN, 11/24/04, 9/24/06, Bergen, OBL I Know , 46–, Wright, 97–;

48 “missionary”:“Mohammad Khalifa’s Network in the Philippines,” in ed. J. M. Berger, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa , Vol. 1, INTELWIRE, 2007;

49 “philanthropist”: The Inquirer (Philippines), 1/22/07, Vitug & Gloria, 208, 213, 235–;

50 OBL Philippines:Ressa, 16;

51 spreading money:ibid., 27, 73, 107, 227n22, Christian Science Monitor , 2/1/02;

52 introduced Yousef:Ressa, 108;

53 left country/police report:Ressa, 10–, 16;

54 arrested:“Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support for Motion re Return of Property,” Mohammad Jamal Khalifa v. U.S. , U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Cr 95–, in ed. Berger;

55 phone book: U.S. v. Benevolence International Foundation, Inc. et al. , U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 02 CR 0414, 4/29/02, in ed. Berger;

56 bomb factory:J. M. Berger, “Mohammad Jamal Khalifa: Life and Death Secrets,” 1/31/07, INTELWIRE;

57 explosives/weaponry:“In the Matter of Mohammad J. Khalifah, Respondent,” U.S. Dept. of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, A29–457–661, 3/10/95, in ed. Berger; Khalifa , entry for OBL: U.S. v. Benevolence International Foundation, Inc., et al.; card in suitcase/Khalifa alias: U.S. v. Benevolence International Foundation Inc., et al.; co-conspirator:ed. Berger, Khalifa , iii.

58 “alleged financier”:JI, Report, 128. The “alleged financier” reference also appears in a post-9/11 FBI report. A CIA investigation, the BBC was reportedly told by an agency interviewee in 1998, indicated that bin Laden was “Yousef’s principal financial backer.” The overall story of the way Khalifa was handled by U.S. authorities in 1995 remains complex and unsatisfactorily explained. His U.S. visa had been withdrawn on the ground that he had “engaged in terrorist activity,” not in the United States but in Jordan, where he had been convicted in absentia in connection with a bombing campaign. Khalifa was subsequently deported to Jordan, retried, and acquitted—though he admitted that he had known the bombers and sent them funds. Khalifa was then allowed to leave for Saudi Arabia. He claimed in interviews after 9/11, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that he and bin Laden had been estranged since the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Khalifa was killed by unknown assailants in Madagascar in 2007—days after Interpol had forwarded a bulletin on him to U.S. agencies. Relevant Interpol documents are heavily redacted. (“alleged financier”: “Summary of Captioned Investigation as of 11/4/01,” PENTTBOM, 11/5/01, authors’ collection; “Yousef’s principal”: Vitug & Gloria, 234; “engaged”: Mohammad Jamal Khalifah v. U.S. , Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Motion for Return of Property, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, CR 95–, 3/6/95; in absentia/​retried/​acquitted: ed. Berger, Khalifa , ii–; admitted: John Doe v. Al Baraka Investment & Development Corporation et al. , Complaint, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; estranged: e.g. CNN, 9/2/07, Wright, 113; killed/Interpol: J. M. Berger, “U.S., Interpol Tracking Khalifa in Days Before Madagascar Murder,” 2/16/07, INTELWIRE).