46 “Obama, Judge Put Brakes on Guantánamo Terror Trials,” FoxNews.com, January 21, 2009.
47 “Senate Confirmation Hearings: Eric Holder, Day One,” transcript reprinted in New York Times, January 16, 2009.
48 Jed Babbin, “Holder Tightens Grip on Intelligence Agencies,” Real Clear Politics, May 18, 2010.
49 Daniel Klaidman, “Obama Doesn’t Want to Look Back, But Attorney General Eric Holder May Probe Bush-Era Torture Anyway,” Newsweek , July 11, 2009.
50 Mayer, “The Trial: Eric Holder and the Battle Over Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.”
51 “Cables Depict U.S. Haggling to Clear Guantánamo,” by Charles Savage and Andrew Lehren, New York Times, November 29, 2010.
52 Mayer, “The Trial: Eric Holder and the Battle Over Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.”
53 Ibid.
54 “Ahmed Ghailani Transferred from Guantánamo Bay to New York for Prosecution on Terror Charges,” Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, press release, June 9, 2009.
55 William Shakespeare, Macbeth (New York: Washington Square Press, 1992), act V, scene 5.
56 “Attorney General Eric Holder: ‘Close to a Decision’ on 9/11 Trials,” by Jason Devon and Ryan Dwyer, ABC News, November 10, 2010.
57 “Debate Snarls Process of Trying Terror Suspects,” by Kevin Johnson, USA Today, December 10, 2010.
58 C-Span FY 2011 Budget Request for U.S. Justice Department, Testimony of Eric Holder, air date: March 17, 201
CHAPTER 13: AFTERMATH
1 Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding, Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack the World Has Ever Seen (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2003), page 91.
2 “Judge Allows Gang Leader to Talk with Other Infamous Prisoners,” by Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, March 11, 1999.
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In any controversy, such as the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, facts should be the foundation of debate. I hope this bibliography will be a good starting point for other students of international terrorism.
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Baer, Robert. See No Evil: The True Story of a Good Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism. New York: Crown, 2002.
Bell, Stewart. Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2004.
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Miller, John, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell. The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Miniter, Richard. Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2004.
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———. Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2004.
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Index
Abdel Rahman, Sheikh Omar “the Blind Sheikh,”
1993 WTC bombing and
Abdul Aziz, Latifa
Abdul Karim, Abdul Basit Mahmoud, see Yousef, Ramzi
Abdul Karim, Abdul Karim Mahmood
Abdul Karim, Mohammed
Abdullah, Noralwizah Lee
Abdul Muneim
Abouhalima, Mahmud
Abu Ghraib prison
Abu Sayyaf terror group
Abu Zubaydah
capture of
CIA interrogation of
dirty bomb plot revealed by
Padilla and
waterboarding of
Acosta, Carlos
Adel, Saif al-
Afghan Communist Party
Afghanistan
anti-Soviet jihad in
Baluchis in
bin Laden in
jihadi training camps in
Against All Enemies (Clarke)
Air Force, U.S.
airport security, KSM’s testing of
Ajaj, Ahmed Mohammed
Al Ahmadi, Kuwait
Al-Azhar University
Albright, Madeleine K.
Al Farooq jihadi training camp
al-Fuqra
Ali, Ali Abdul Aziz
Ali, Mohammed Jasmin al-
Ali, Tariq
Al Jazeera
Alkifah Refugee Center
al-Manar
Al-Masjid al-Haram, see Grand Mosque
Al Qaeda
Bali suicide bombings and
East African embassy bombings by
internal workings and methods of
interrogation resistance manual of
KSM as central to lethality of attacks by
KSM as member of
KSM declines first invitation to join
ransoms paid to
recruit questionnaire of
Al-Salam mosque
American Airlines Flight 77
American Centre bombing (Calcutta)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Anson, Robert Sam
anti-Semitism
Arabs
Argentina
Arias, Adam
Arias, Andrew
Arkia Israeli Airlines
Army, U.S., document-exploitation (DOCEX) teams of
Atef, Mohammed
Atta, Mohammed
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ayzel, Senguen
Azzam, Abdullah
Baer, Robert
Bakhtiar, Shapour
Bali, suicide bombings in
Baluchi, Ammar al-
Baluchistan
Balushi, Mohammed Ali Dustin al-, see Mohammed, Shaikh
Bamiyan Buddha statues, Taliban bombing of
Bangkok
Bangladesh
Banna, Hassan al-
Barker, Joshua E.
bayat
Bearden, Milton
Belushi, John
Bhutto, Benazir, Yousef’s attempted assassination of
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Big Ben bomb plot
bin al-Shibh, Ramzi
capture of
in military tribunal hearings
bin Attash, Tawfiq
bin Attash, Walid
bin Hamad, Hamid bin Jassim
bin Laden, Osama
differing management styles of KSM and
KSM’s meetings with
9/11 plot and
as Salafi
Western society as poorly understood by
“Black Hawk Down” incident
“Blind Sheikh,” see Abdel Rahman, Sheikh Omar
Bloomberg, Michael
Borelli, Joseph
Bosnia:
civil war in
jihad in
persecution of Christians and Jews in
Boston Globe
box cutters
Brazil
Britani, Issa al-
Bruguière, Jean-Louis
Budapest
Bugtis
Bulooshi, Mohammed al-
Bundeskriminalamt
Bush, George W.
Bush administration
civilian terror trials rejected by
critics of
Bushnell, Prudence
Bybee, Jay
Capitol, U.S., as 9/11 target
Carter, Jimmy
Cebu City, Philippines
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Abu Zubaydah interrogated by
Afghan jihad and
black sites of
Church hearings and
Counter-Terrorism Center of
FBI in interagency conflict with
in hunt for KSM
in hunt for Yousef
KSM interrogated by, see Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh, interrogations of
lack of coordination between FBI and
possible prosecution of interrogators from
Turner and
U.S. embassy security and
see also interrogation
Chad
Chechnya
Chicago, Ill.
China
Chowan University
as Christian school
Muslims at
Christian, Letha
Church, Frank
civil liberties
Clarke, Richard A.
Clay, Quentin
Clinton, Bill
KSM’s plots to assassinate
Clinton administration
CNN
Coastal Aviation
Cold War
Cole, James
Cole, USS, bombing of
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Committee for Islamic Appeal
communism
Congress, U.S.
Costudio, Arminda
Council of Islamic Ideology (Pakistan)
Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC)
Croats
Culver City, Calif.
Dabbous, Sheikh Ahmed
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, U.S. embassy bombing in
Daskal, Jennifer
Davis, Deloris Christian
Defense Department, U.S.
de Marenches, Claude Alexandre, Count
Dergham, Raghida
Detainee Treatment Act (2005)
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, U.S. barracks bombing in
Djerba synagogue bombing
Doha, Qatar