Anthony Summers - The Eleventh Day

22 did all right/arranged meeting:ibid., 19.

23 flew to Germany:Atta had done a course in German at Cairo’s Goethe Institute. In Germany, he was at some stage sponsored by the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, which assists young professionals from many foreign countries (Goethe: Uwe Michaels statement to Bundeskriminalamt, Hamburg, 10/2/01, authors’ collection; Duisberg: Tagespiel [Germany], 10/16/01).

24 “exceedingly”:Uwe Michaels Statement to Bundeskriminalamt, Hamburg, 10/2/01, authors’ collection;

25 own meals/​pots/​video/​risqué: Chicago Tribune , 3/7/03;

26 blouse: Sunday Times (London), 1/26/02, LAT , 1/27/02;

27 “that person”:int. of Michaels Jr. by Hannah Cleaver;

28 “words”: Chicago Tribune , 1/27/02;

29 clashes:McDermott, 25–;

30 “a dear human”: Newsweek , 10/1/01 applied self/trips:transcript, int. Dittmar Machule, 10/18/01, Four Corners: A Mission to Die For , 10/18/01, www.abc.net.au;

31 Omar arrive/phony/returned:MFR 04016498, 1/13/04, LAT , 9/1/02, CR, 161;

32 aspired:CR, 161, Fouda & Fielding, 74;

33 “in love”:McDermott, 48;

34 “very funny”:int. Mounir Motassadeq;

35 “disgusting”/read Qur’an:eds. Der Spiegel , 197;

36 newcomer/father muezzin:McDermott, 55;

37 prayer tape:Corbin, 134;

38 “regular guy”:CR, 162;

39 “happy”:int. Mounir Motassadeq;

40 jokes:Miller & Stone, 263;

41 “dreamy”:McDermott, 54;

42 military:CR, 162;

43 marine engineering:McDermott, 53–;

44 $4,000:Corbin, 136;

45 “explode”: Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), 9/23/01;

46 never spoke:McDermott, 54;

47 recite/imagined:ibid., 54, 87;

48 “What is”:ibid., 48;

49 Jarrah flew in/grew up:Corbin, 137, LAT , 10/23/01, CR, 163, “The Fifth Estate: The Story of Ziad Jarrah,” www.cbc.ca, 10/10/01;

50 civil servant/teacher:Fisk, The Great War , 1052, Aysel Sengün statement to Bundeskriminalamt, 9/15/01, authors’ collection;

51 great-uncle: Der Spiegel , 9/17/08, conv. Gunther Latsch, Fouda & Fielding, 85;

52 cousin: NYT , 2/19/09;

53 Sunni/Christian schools/skipped prayers:Aysel Sengün statement to Bundeskriminalamt, 9/15/01, authors’ collection, Fisk, The Great War , 1051–;

54 alcohol/“Once”:Corbin, 137, eds. Der Spiegel , 190;

55 nightclubs: The Independent (U.K.), 9/16/01, LAT , 10/23/01;

56 girls:eds. Der Spiegel , 246;

57 Sengün:Aysel Sengün statement to Bundeskriminalamt, 9/15/01, authors’ collection, Corbin, 137, McDermott, 51, 80;

58 got religion:McDermott, 51; CR, 163, Newsday , 8/15/07;

59 imam/“terrorist”:Tenet identified the imam as Abdulrahman al-Makhadi (Testimony of George Tenet, JI, 6/18/02, & see National Drug Intelligence Center for the FBI, “265D-NY-280350, TWINBOM-PENTTBOM, Biographical Report,” 11/26/01, authors’ collection);

60 “criticized”:Aysel Sengün statement to Bundeskriminalamt, 9/15/01, authors’ collection;

61 dentistry/switched:CR, 163;

62 “Someone explained”/pregnant: LAT , 1/27/03;

63 Shehhi moved/emulating:CR, 162–;

64 Atta/“leader”:transcript, int. Dittmar Machule;

65 talked angrily: MSNBC Investigates: The Making of the Death Pilots , MSNBC, 4/7/02 & see Chicago Tribune , 9/11/04.

66 “always”/“the war”: Four Corners: A Mission to Die For , 10/18/01, www.abc.net.au. The student was Ralph Bodenstein. One account of Bodenstein’s recollections states that Atta was angered by Israel’s treatment of Palestinians but that—as an Egyptian—he was “most vehement about matters in his own country.” He often raised the Palestine issue at religious classes he gave to younger Muslims. In his youth, Atta may have been influenced on the Palestine issue by his father. Australian reporter Liz Jackson has recalled that after 9/11, when she approached Atta Sr. for an interview, he “said he’d only talk if we paid US $25,000 to the Palestinian intifada. Without that, if we continued filming, he’d break the camera” (one account: Miller & Stone, 251; raised: Chicago Tribune , 9/11/04, McDermott, 36; Atta Sr.: Four Corners: A Mission to Die For , 10/18/01, www.abc.net.au).

67 Brotherhood abjures violence:see “History of the Muslim Brotherhood,” www.ikhanweb.com;

68 exceptions:Benjamin & Simon, 86;

69 recruiting grounds/engineering club: WP , 9/22/01;

70 men from Allepo:transcript, int. Dittmar Machule, McDermott, 29.

71 Zammar/Darkazanli:CR, 164, 167, McDermott, 72–. Zammar has languished in a jail in Syria since his arrest the month after 9/11. A Syrian court convicted him of membership of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Syria. Because he was allegedly tortured in prison, Amnesty International has issued an appeal on his behalf. Darkazanli has not been accused of any crime in Germany. Spanish prosecutors sought his extradition, however, in 2004, citing alleged contacts with al Qaeda operatives there. Darkazanli was in Spain in summer 2001 at approximately the same time as Atta and Binalshibh (Zammar: “Unfair Trial & Sentencing of Muhammad Haydar Zammar,” Appeal Case, 3rd Update, 3/22/07, www.amnestyusa.org, Der Spiegel , 11/21/05; Darkazanli: “Germany’s Imam Mamoun Darkazanli,” www.jamestown.org, 8/27/10, JI, Report, 183–).

72 “coincidence”: Chicago Tribune , 11/16/02, Derek Flood, “Germany’s Imam Mamoun Darkazanli,” Vol. 1, No. 8, www.jamestown.org.

73 boxes/books/“I will pay”: WP , 9/11/02;

74 Atta vanished/“Don’t ask”:CR, 168, Fouda & Fielding, 123, transcript, int. Dittmar Machule, LAT , 9/1/02, but see Corbin, 139—which suggests he disappeared for more than a year. Tenet so speculated, even though KSM apparently denied to interrogators that Atta went to Afghanistan prior to late 1999 (Testimony of George Tenet, JI, 6/18/02, KSM SUBST).

75 passport lost/new one:Testimony of George Tenet, JI, 6/18/02, McDermott, 57;

76 speculation:ibid., Testimony of George Tenet, MFR 04019351, 12/10/03;

77 “serve the interests”:ed. Lawrence, 60–;

78 “This was sensitive”:Kean & Hamilton, 284–;

79 bring attack forward:KSM SUBST;

80 KSM concern:McDermott, 117–;

81 “the atrocities”:KSM SUBST;

82 KSM claims:“Verbatim Transcription of Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearing for ISN 10024,” 3/10/07, www.defense.gov;

83 “entitled”:int. Yousef by Raghida Dergham, Al Hayat , 4/12/95;

84 “If you ask”:McDermott, 13;