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DOCUMENTS

U.S. Government Documents

United States Navy, Admiral William H. McRaven, biography, United States Special Operations Command, updated August 8, 2011.

Defendants’ exhibit 950 in
U.S. v. Moussaoui
, Cr. No. 01-455-A, “FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to Khalid al-Mihdhar & Nawaf al-Hamzi,” Department of Justice Inspector General’s report by Glenn A. Fine, obtained via
INTELWIRE.com
.

Department of Defense, “Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD for Detainee, ISN US9SA-000063DP(S),” October 30, 2008.

Department of Defense, Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, March 10, 2007,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf
.

Department of Defense, Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Trial for ISN 10024, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, March 10, 2007,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf
.

Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, “Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, Senior Deputy Council, Central Intelligence Agency,” May 30, 2005,
http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/missing_memos/28OLCmemofinalredact30May05.pdf
.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Abdul Shalabi, ISN US9SA-000042DP, May 14, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Abdul Rabbani Abu Rahman, ISN US9PK-001460DP, June 9, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Abu al-Libi, ISN US9LY-010017DP, September 10, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Ali Hamza Ismail, ISN US9YM-000039DP, November 15, 2007.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Ammar al-Baluchi, ISN USSPK-010018D, December 8, 2006.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Awal Gul, ISN US9AF-000782DP, February 15, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Bashir Lap, ISN US9MY-010022DP, October 13, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Faruq Ahmed, ISN US9YM-000032DP, February 18, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Harun al-Afghani, ISN US9AF-003148DP, August 2, 2007.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, ISN US9SA-000192D, November 30, 2005.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, ISN US9KU-010024DP, December 8, 2006.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Maad Al-Qahtani, ISN US9SA-000063DP (S), October 30, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Mohammed al-Qahtani, ISN US9SA-000063DP, October 30, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Muazhamza al-Alawi, ISN US9YM-000028DP, March 14, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Riduan Isomuddin, ISN US9ID-010019DP, October 30, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al-Haj, ISN US9YM-000256DP, March 23, 2008.

JFT-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Salim Hamed (Salim Hamdan), ISN US9YM-000149DP, September 4, 2008.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Sultan al-Uwaydha, ISN US9SA-000059DP, August 1, 2007.

JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment for Walid Said bin Said Zaid, ISN US9YM-000550DP (S), January 16, 2008.

Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt, “Radicalization in the West: the Homegrown Threat,” New York Police Department, 2007.
www.nypdshield.org//files/04/83/96/f048396/public/…/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf
.

“National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Final Report” (Washington, DC, 2004) (“9/11 Commission Report”).

National Defense University, Conflict Records Research Center, “Document contains al-Qaeda review of the 9/11 attacks on the United States one year later,” undated (circa September 2002), AQ-SHPD-D-001-285,
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docUploaded/AQ-SHPD-D-001-285.pdf
.

National Intelligence Council, “National Intelligence Estimate: The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” July 2007,
http://www.c-span.org/pdf/nie_071707.pdf
.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence, “Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate. Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,” April 2006,
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/Declassified_NIE_Key_Judgments.pdf
.

Office of the Inspector General, “Report on CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks,” August 21, 2007,
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Executive%20Summary_OIG%20Report.pdf
.

United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), “The Wandering Mujahidin: Armed and Dangerous,” August 21–22, 1993.

United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, (INR), “Terrorism? Usama bin Ladin: Who’s Chasing Whom?” July 18, 1996.

United States Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Targets Key Al-Qa’ida Funding and Support Network Using Iran as a Critical Transit Point,” July 28, 2011,
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1261.aspx
.

United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, “Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today,” November 30, 2009.

United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “Report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Postwar Iraq, together with additional views,” February 12, 2004,
http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf
.

United States Special Operations Command History (6th edition, 2008),
http://www.socom.mil/SOCOMHome/Documents/history6thedition.pdf
.

WikiLeaks, Cable from U.S. Secretary of State to U.S. Embassy in Islamabad dated October 9, 2008.

Document Sets and Reports

Brian Fishman, “Redefining the Islamic State: The Fall and Rise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq,” The New America Foundation, August 18, 2011,
http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/redefining_the_islamic_state
.

Holloway Report, August 23, 1980,
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB63/doc8.pdf
.

“Nomination of Michael Leiter to be Director, National Counterterrorism Center,”
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2008_hr/leiter.pdf
.

“Pervez Musharraf on U.S.-Pakistan Relations,” Council on Foreign Relations, October 26, 2011,
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/1026carnegie-musharraf.pdf
.

“Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on July 7, 2005,” Intelligence and Security Committee, May 2006,
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/isc_7july_report.pdf
,
this page
and
this page
.

Camille Tawil, “The Other Face of al-Qaeda,” trans. Maryan El-Hajbi and Mustafa Abulhimal, Quilliam Foundation, November 2010.

Katherine Tiedemann and Peter Bergen, “The Year of the Drone,” New America Foundation, February 24, 2010,
http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/bergentiedemann2.pdf
.

Court Documents

Interrogation of al-Qaeda recruit Nizar Trabelsi, who was questioned in French in June 2002. The text of his interrogation was later provided in Italian to prosecutors in Milan investigating one of Trabelsi’s associates. Documents acquired and translated by investigative journalist Leo Sisti of
L’Espresso
. Author’s collection.

U.S. v. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul
, May 7, 2008.

U.S. v. Moussaoui
, Cr. No. 01-455-A, exhibit ST-0001.

U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al
. (Indictment in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [S14] 93 Cr. 180 [KTD], December 14, 2009).

U.S. v. Najibullah Zazi
, Eastern District of New York, 09-CR-663, Memorandum of law in support of the government’s motion for a permanent order of detention (Via IntelWire).

SPEECHES BY WESTERN OFFICIALS

Dick Cheney, remarks, “Town Hall Meeting,”
CQ Transcriptions
, October 19, 2004.

Henry A. Crumpton, speech at CSIS Smart Power Series, Washington, DC, January 14, 2008,
http://csis.org/files/media/csis/press/080114_smart_crumpton.pdf
.

Jonathan Evans, address to the Society of Editors, Manchester, England, November 5, 2007,
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/security-speech-mi5?version=1
.

Robert Gates, remarks, Kutzenov Naval Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 21, 2011.

John McCain, speech after his win in the Wisconsin Primary, C-SPAN, February 19, 2008,
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/290354897
.

Admiral Michael Mullen, U.S. Navy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, September 22, 2011,
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2011/09%20September/Mullen%2009-22-11.pdf
.

Barack Obama, “Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” White House press release, December 1, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan
.

Barack Obama, at Democratic Debate, Los Angeles, CA, January 31, 2008,
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-01-31/politics/dem.debate.transcript_1_hillary-clinton-debate-stake/29?_s=PM:POLITICS
.

Barack Obama, “Obama’s Nobel Remarks [transcript],”
New York Times
, December 10, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12
.

Barack Obama, speech at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, August 1, 2007,
http://www.cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-woodrow-wilson-center/p13974
.

“Transcript: the Republican Candidates Debate,”
New York Times
, August 5, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/us/politics/05transcript-debate.html?pagewanted=all
.

Paul Wolfowitz, Defense Department Briefing, December 10, 2001.

STATEMENTS BY AL-QAEDA LEADERS AND OTHER ALLIED MILITANTS

Abd al-Halim Adl, letter to Khalid Sheikh Mohamed: translation from Counterterrorism Center at West Point, Harmony Program,
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Al-Adl-Letter_Translation.pdf
.

Abu Musab al-Suri, “The Call to Global Islamic Resistance,” published on jihadist websites, 2004.

Osama bin Laden, “Letter to Mullah Mohammed Omar from bin Laden,” Undated, AFGP-2002-600321. Available at
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/letter-to-mullah-mohammed-omar-from-bin-laden-english-translation
.

Osama bin Laden, “Statement,” October 7, 2001. Aired on Al Jazeera.

Osama bin Laden interview with Al Jazeera, 1998. Available via
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1358734/Ever-since-I-can-recall-I-despised-and-felt-hatred-towards-Americans.html
.

“Note to Zarqawi,” November 12, 2005, available at
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CTC-AtiyahLetter.pdf
.

“The Solution: A Video Speech from Usama bin Laden Addressing the American People on the Occasion of the Sixth Anniversary of 9/11—9/2007,” SITE Group translation, September 11, 2007,
http://counterterrorismblog.org/site-resources/images/SITE-OBL-transcript.pdf
.

“Al-Zarqawi: The Second al-Qa’ida Generation,” Fu’ad Husayn,
Al-Quds al-Arabi
, May 21–22, 2005.

NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWS AGENCIES, AND BROADCAST NEWS

Newspapers

Al-Hayat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Asharq Al-Awsat, Australian, Chicago Tribune, Daily Times
(Pakistan),
Dawn
(Pakistan),
Der Spiegel, Express Tribune, Friday Times, Guardian, Harvard University Gazette, Independent, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, McClatchy Newspapers, The News
(Pakistan),
New York Times, New York Daily News, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, USA Today

Magazines

Al-Majallah
(Saudi Arabia),
Atlantic Monthly, Bloomberg Business Week, Mother Jones, National Journal, New Republic, New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Washingtonian, Wired

Journals

Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Security Studies

News Agencies

Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters, ProPublica

Broadcast News and Radio

ABC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS, CNN, France24, Al Jazeera, Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

DOCUMENTARIES

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
Al Qaeda Family
, February 22, 2004.

CNN,
In the Footsteps of bin Laden
, August 23, 2006.

History Channel,
Targeting Bin Laden
, September 6, 2011.

National Geographic,
The Last Days of Osama bin Laden
, November 9, 2011;
George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview
, August 30, 2011.

NBC, “Inside the Terror Plot That ‘Rivaled 9/11,’ ”
Dateline
, September 14, 2009.

PBS,
Frontline
, “Dana Priest: Top Secret America” (2011); “Campaign Against Terror” (2002).

Laura Poitras,
The Oath
, Praxis Films (2010).

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