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Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden  
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Index

Abbas, Mohammed Yussuf, 91

ABC News, 20, 105, 121, 138

Abdel-Bary, Abdel, 205, 206

Abdo, Genevieve, 226

Abdullah, Dr., 162-163, 165

Abouhalima, Mahmud, 134, 136

Abu Jindal training camp, Afghanistan, 120

Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), 38, 116

Abu Sayyaf group, 138, 166, 217-218

Adams, Gerry, 21

Aden, 98, 167, 172-174, 183-191

Aden Eight, 180, 183

Advice and Reformation Committee (ARC), 2, 88-89, 205

Afghan Arabs, 54-58, 63-69, 72, 73, 84, 86, 172-175

Afghanistan. See also Taliban

aid workers in, 166

Hindus in, 156, 166

Jews in, 158-159

monarchy, 68

Northern Alliance, 160, 162, 163, 165, 175, 229, 230

as opium producer, 143

training camps in, 2, 26, 28, 30-31, 40, 56, 64, 89-90, 120, 137, 164-165, 175, 234

United Nations sanctions against, 143, 161

U.S. cruise missile attacks against (1998), 118-123, 165, 208, 215

war against Soviets, 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 32, 40, 41, 48-60, 63-75, 84, 122-123, 163, 224-225, 230

Afghan Refugee Services, Inc., 131

African embassy bombings (1998), 25-27, 30, 32, 39, 53, 77, 81, 86, 91, 101, 103, 105-113, 117-118, 136, 137, 184, 196, 197, 206

Afridi, Haji Ayub, 11

al-Ahmar, Ali Muhsin, 173, 183

Ahmed, Habib, 122

Ahmed, Mustafa Mahmoud Said, 117

Ahmed the German, 112

Aidid, Mohamed, 82, 83

Ajaj, Ahmad, 137

Alasad, Sam, 136

Albright, Madeleine, 5, 109, 114, 144, 161

Alexander the Great, 10

Algeria, 30, 55, 72

Armed Islamic Group (GIA), 39-40, 86, 234

Ali, 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23

Ali, Ihab, 36, 138-139

Alkhifa Refugee Center, Brooklyn, New York, 130, 132-134, 136, 137

al-Qaeda. See listing under Q

Amanpour, Christiane, 114

American Airlines

flight 11, 24, 25, 36, 37, 227

flight 77, 25

American Protective Services, Sunnyvale, California, 128

Amin, Hafizullah, 68

Amin Shah, Wali Khan, 138, 218

Amnesty International, 159

al-Amoudi family, 42

Anderson, Robert, 130

al-Anesi, Abdul Wahab, 98, 174, 188

al-Ansar training camp, Afghanistan, 56

Anthrax, 234-235

al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem, 44-45

Arabian Sea, 121, 168

Aramco, 76

Arbusto, 46

ARIANA, 16

Arnett, Peter, 6, 18, 23

Assassins, the, 227-228

Associated Press, 23

Atef, Muhammad, 99, 104

Atlantic Monthly, The, 228

Atomic bomb, 21-22

Atta, Mohamed, 35-37, 227, 231

Atwan, Abdel Bari, 93, 203

al-Auda, Salman, 78

Azerbaijan, 20, 86

Azhar, Maulana Masood, 208, 211, 217

al-Azhar University, Cairo, 52, 199

al-Aziz bin Baz, Abd, 55

Azzam, 108

Azzam, Abdullah, 29, 47, 51-54, 56, 61-62, 84, 133, 135, 137, 178, 202

Azzam, Ibrahim, 62

Azzam, Muhammad, 62

Azzam.com, 38


Baaboud family, 124

Babar, Naseerullah, 145

al-Badawai, Jamal, 186

al-Badr training camps, Afghanistan, 28, 100, 120

Ba'eshn, Said Mohamed, 193

Bahrain, 225

Bakri Muhammad, Sheikh Omar, 206-207

Baku, Azerbaijan, 86

Bangladesh, 30

al-Banshiri, Abu Ubaidah, 106, 204, 205

al-Barakati, Mansoor, 58-59

Baroum family, 42

Basayev, Sail, 219

al-Bashir, Omar Hassan Ahmad, 79

Bath, James, 45-46

Bayat (oath of allegiance), 28, 60

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 6, 71, 111

Bearden, Milt, 55, 65, 73

Begin, Menachem, 201

Beirut, Marine barracks bombing (1983), 85, 141

Beit al-Ansar (House of the Supporters), 51, 59, 90

Beit al-Salaam guest house, 90

Beit al-Shuhadaa (House of the Martyrs), 137

Belle Glade, Florida, 36

Bhutto, Benazir, 34, 60-61

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 60

bin Laden, Osama. See listing under L

Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America (Bodansky), 32-33

Black Hawk Down (Bowden), 82

Black Stone, 147

Black Tulip (Bearden), 65

Blessed Fruits Company, 80

Blowback, 67-68

Bodansky, Yossef, 32-33

Bodine, Barbara K., 190

Bojinka plot, 35

Bosnia, 20, 34, 40, 86, 111, 179, 223, 224

Bowden, Mark, 82

Bradsher, Henry, 69

Brown, Marion, 135

Brunei, Sultan of, 42

Brydon, Dr., 50

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 63

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 116

Burns, John, 178

Burqa (garment), 13, 16, 155

Bush, George, 22, 77, 81

Bush, George W., 31, 46, 103, 165, 226, 233

Bushnell, Prudence, 109-110

Buzkashi (sport), 14-15


Cambodia, 156, 230

Cannistraro, Vince, 65, 74, 137

Carey, Caroline, 45

Carpenter, David, 196

Carter, Jimmy, 48, 63, 68, 201

Catholic Church, 3

CBS News, 6, 70

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 208, 228-229

Afghan war and, 1, 32, 63-69, 71-75

Counterterrorist Center (CTC), 116

headquarters of, 115

investigation of bin Laden, 115-117

Ali Mohamed and, 128, 130-131

Charasayab, Afghanistan, 165

Chechnya, 26, 34, 38-40, 86, 111, 177-178, 207, 218-219, 224

Chinese embassy, Belgrade, 123

Clarke, Richard, 185

Clash of civilizations thesis, 223-225

Clinton, Bill, 5, 22, 23, 99, 103, 118-120, 123, 161, 223

Cloak of the Prophet, 162

CNN (Cable News Network), 111

interview with bin Laden (1997), 1-6, 9, 16-23, 38, 58, 81, 88, 94, 150

Cockburn, Peter, 124

Cold War, 20, 221, 223

Colombia, 224

Congressional Task Force on Afghanistan, 70

Congressional Task Force on Terrorism, 115

Conrad, Joseph, 24, 105

Copts, 200, 201

Cortés, HernÁn, 11

Cosmocrats, 196

Cossacks, The (Tolstoy), 219

Croatia, 20, 86, 224

Crop-dusting planes, 36, 231


Al-Damazine farms, 80

Dammaj, Yemen, 191-192

Dar es Salaam, U.S. embassy in. See African embassy bombings (1998)

Darra, Pakistan, 10

Darunta training camp, Afghanistan, 89

Dean, Diana, 139-140

De Atkine, Norvell, 129-130

"Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places, The" (Osama bin Laden), 93-94, 204

"Defending Muslim Territory Is the Most Important Duty" (Azzam), 53

Defense, U.S. Department of, 116, 132

DeGuzman, Jamie, 187

de Mul, Erik, 157, 158, 210

Deraz, Essam, 56-58, 78, 83

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 47, 88

Diana, Princess, 44

Disney Corporation, 47

Disney World, 138-139

Djibouti, 132, 190

Doha, Abu, 141

Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam (Labevière), 32

Dos Passos, John, 48

Dubai, 47

Dubai Islamic Bank, 103


Egypt, 26, 30, 48, 52, 72, 86, 98, 200-203, 221, 225, 226

bombing of Islamabad embassy (1995), 90, 91, 201

Eidarous, Ibrahim, 205, 206

Embassy bombings. See African embassy bombings (1998), 25-27, 30, 32, 39, 53, 77, 81, 86, 91, 101, 103, 137, 196, 197, 206

EMPTA (chemical agent), 123, 124

Empty Quarter, 41, 168, 175

Encyclopedia of the Afghan Jihad, 84

Eritrea, 86


al-Fadhli, Tariq, 173, 174

al-Fadl, Jamal, 59-60, 78, 84, 89, 134, 137, 228

al-Fagih, Saad, 4-5, 59, 89, 98, 200

Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia, 45, 61, 78, 89

Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 44

Falwell, Jerry, 221

al-Farouq training camp, Afghanistan, 89, 120

al-Fawwaz, Khaled, 2-4, 6, 13, 51, 53, 55, 56, 59, 79, 88-89, 96, 99, 123, 205-206

Fayed, Dodi, 44

Fazil, Haroun, 83, 106, 136

Federal Aviation Agency, 116

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 33

Cole bombing investigation, 187-189, 192

investigation of bin Laden, 115, 117

Ali Mohamed and, 132-133

Fidayeen (suicide squads), 215

First Afghan War, 50

Fisk, Robert, 81

Fitzgerald, Patrick, 109, 206

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 127, 129-130, 229

Franco, Francisco, 48, 227

Freeh, Louis, 189

Freud, Sigmund, 225

Friedman, Milton, 47

Fuller, Graham, 69, 73-74


Gates, Robert, 68, 73

Gerecht, Reuel, 228

Globe (tabloid), 234-235

Gondal, Saifullah, 120

Gore, Al, 5

Grand Mosque, Mecca, 48

Grand Trunk Road, 7

Guardian, The, 64

Guevera, Che, 72

Gul, Hamid, 61

Gulf War, 6, 23, 70, 89, 127, 225-226


al-Habshi, Nabil, 42-44

Hadda, Afghanistan, 12

Hadramawt, Yemen, 41-43, 186, 193

Hafeezullah, Maulvi, 143, 161-162

Hafs, Abu, 82, 100, 204, 233

el-Hage, Wadi, 106, 117, 134-137, 139, 197

Hajj (pilgrimage), 43, 45

Hakim, Abdul Aziz, 187

Hamas, 85, 218

Hamza, Abdul Baset, 124

Hamza, Abu, 39, 177-180, 183

Hamza, Mohammad, 178, 180

Hanif, Qari Din Mohammad, 160-161

ul-Haq, Maulana Sami, 125-126, 149-151

Haqqani, Jalaluddin, 54

Harakat ul-Mujahideen (HUM), 122, 179, 208-212, 214, 215, 234

al-Harazi, Mohammed Omar, 184, 186, 197

Harvard University, 46

Hassan, Abu, 181-184

Havala system, 103

al-Hawali, Safar, 78

Al-Hayat newspaper, 108

Hazaras, 156, 159

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 6, 53, 54, 68-73, 165

Help Africa People, 136

Hemingway, Ernest, 48

Henderson, Victor, 45

Herat, Afghanistan, 158

Hezbollah, 21, 85, 88, 218

Hijazi, Raed, 139, 140

Al-Hijra Construction Company, 80

Hindu Kush mountains, 7, 28

Hindus, in Afghanistan, 156, 166

Hizb party, 68-71

Holy Kaaba operation, 105

Holy Roman Empire, 21

Hotaki, Abdul Khabir, 151-152

al-Hudaifi, Ali, 100

Huffman Aviation, Venice, Florida, 36

Huntington, Samuel, 223-225

Hussain, Mushahid, 113, 153

Hussein, Saddam, 3, 23, 70, 77, 119, 225, 226

Hutus, 224


Ibn Taymiyyah, 100

Ibrahim, Saad Eddin, 134, 202

Idris, Salah, 124, 125

Ignatieff, Michael, 225

Al-Ikhlas Company, 80

Ilyas (driver), 213-214

Independent, 81

India

airline hijacking (1999), 208-212, 215, 217

Kashmir and, 208, 212, 214-217, 225

Indonesia, 26, 227

Indus River, 7

Intercontinental Hotel, Kabul, Afghanistan, 152, 154

Internet, 38, 40

Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), 64, 66, 68, 73, 145, 216, 229

Iran, 48, 68, 74, 86, 88, 116, 155, 226

Iraq, 3, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 32, 36, 38, 77, 98, 99, 124, 125, 127, 221, 225, 226

Irish Republican Army (IRA), 21

Irvine, Walter, 8

Isby, David, 71

Islah party, 174, 188, 192, 226

Islamabad, Pakistan, 6-7, 39, 66, 90, 147-148

Islambouli, Khalid, 201, 204

Islambouli, Mohammed Shawki, 204

Islamic Army of Aden (IAA), 39, 177, 179, 180, 189

Islamic Coordination Council, 137

Islamic Group (Egypt), 66-67, 86, 95, 189, 195, 200, 202, 203

Islamic Observation Centre, 198-199

Islamic People's Congress (1995), 85

Islamic University, Islamabad, 52

Ismail, Jamal, 51, 55, 56, 59, 135

Israel, 5, 21, 26, 37, 48, 52, 129-130, 147, 200-201, 221, 224, 226


Jaamiah Darul Uloom Haqqania, Pakistan, 7, 149

Jahiliyyah (state of ignorance), 48, 200

Jais-e-Mohammed (JEM), 217

Jaji, battle of, 56-57

Jaji, Afghanistan, 60

Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 6, 12-14, 16, 58, 65, 93

siege of (1989), 70

Jamaat e-Jihal al-Suri organization, 86

Jambiya (Yemeni dagger), 185

Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI), 149

Jan, Mullah Khan, 159-160

Jane's Intelligence Review, 32

Janjalani, Abdurajik, 217

Al-Jazeera television station, 38, 83, 87, 113

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 43, 44, 190, 218

Jesus, 96-97, 235

Jews, 202-203, 223, 224

Jihad Group "Vanguards of Conquest" (Egypt), 59, 86, 95, 108, 128, 182, 199-201, 205

Jihadist movement, 47-48, 52-53

Jihad magazine, 91

Jihad Media, 185

Jihad Wal training camp, Afghanistan, 89

Jobe, Henry, 124

John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, 127-131

John Paul II, Pope, 35, 138, 218

Jordan, 86, 139, 140, 185, 195, 218, 226

Jouvenal, Peter, 6, 18, 54, 60, 65


Kaaba, 147

Kabul, Afghanistan, 6, 14, 70, 72, 103-104, 121, 144, 154-156, 158, 159

Kabul Museum, Afghanistan, 14

Kahane, Rabbi Meir, 131, 205

Kamal, Mustafa. See Hamza, Abu

Kandahar, Afghanistan, 15, 58, 95, 145, 158, 162, 185, 208-212, 229

Kaplan, Robert D., 49

Kargil operation, 215

Karzai, Abdul Ahad, 229

Karzai, Hamid, 229

Kashmir, 26, 30, 34, 208, 212-217, 225

Kenya. See African embassy bombings (1998)

Kepel, Gilles, 56

Khadijah, 157

Khaldan training camp, Afghanistan, 89, 107, 140

Khalid bin Walid training camp, Afghanistan, 89, 120, 122

Khalifa (caliphate), restoration of, 20, 21, 52-53

Khalifa, Mohammad Jamal, 218

Khalifa, Muhammad Abdurrahman, 54, 138

Khalili, Nejat, 131

al-Khamri, Hassan Saeed Awad, 186

Khan, Ismail, 100, 101

Khartoum, Sudan, 78, 120

Khartoum Tannery, 80

Khashoggi, Adnan, 44

Khattab, 40, 219-220

Kherchtou, L'Hossaine, 84, 89-90, 139, 228

Khmer Rouge, 156

Khobar Towers bombing (1996), 88

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 48

Khost, Afghanistan, 64, 120, 121, 165

Khumram Agency, 137

Khyber Agency, 9, 10

Khyber Pass, 7, 9-11

Khyber Rifles regiment, 9

King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, 47

Knights Templar, 149

Koran, 20, 48, 63, 70-71, 73, 96, 98-99, 103, 149, 157, 171, 185

Kosovo, 34, 225

Kroll Associates, 124

Kuchis, 18

Kurds, 225

Kuwait, 3, 23, 77, 225

Kyrgyzstan, 166


Labevière, Richard, 32

bin Laden, Abdullah (son), 58

bin Laden, Abdullah (uncle), 42-44

bin Laden, Bakr, 89

bin Laden, Mohammed bin Awad (father), 29, 42-45, 52, 101-102, 193

bin Laden, Mohammed (son), 204, 233

bin Laden, Osama. See also al-Qaeda

ABC News interview (1998), 121

Aden hotel bombings (1992) and, 172

Afghan war and, 3, 7, 12, 13, 32, 40, 41, 50-52, 54-58, 64, 65, 71, 122-123

aliases of, 30-31

ancestral village of, 42, 43, 193

assassination attempts against, 4, 89, 132

Bhutto and, 60, 61

birth of, 41, 44

bodyguards of, 100, 132

as businessman, 29

childhood of, 45

CIA and FBI investigation of, 115-117

CNN interview with (1997), 1-6, 9, 16-23, 38, 58, 81, 88, 94, 150

on Cole bombing, 167, 192-193

communications technology and, 4, 20, 28, 38, 229

declaration of war on America, 28, 29, 93-94, 204, 231

education of, 47

family ties to U.S., 45-47

father of, 29, 42-45, 52, 101-102, 193

finances of, 3, 20, 80, 101-104

ul-Haq on, 150

health problems of, 57

Hekmatyar and, 71

hero status of, 3, 31, 34, 125-126, 148, 149

Independent interview (1993), 81

Indian Airlines hijacking (1999) and, 211

influences on, 47-48, 51-52, 199, 202, 203

Jihad Media videotape (2000), 185-186

Khattab and, 219

leisure activities of, 80

living conditions of, 78, 79, 93

Massoud assassination and, 71, 232

meaning of name, 44

misinformation about, 31-33

mother of, 44

pattern of telegraphing intentions, 26, 186

physical appearance of, 18, 185

religiosity, early signs of, 47

religious teaching of, 45

restoration of Khalifa (caliphate) and, 20, 21

returns to Afghanistan (1996), 92-95, 100

on Saddam Hussein, 23

Saudi citizenship revoked, 89, 102

Saudi regime and, 3, 19, 20, 77-79, 88-89

in Sudan, 78-81, 83-85, 91, 102

Taliban and, 13, 92, 93, 102, 143, 153, 160-164, 166

as teenager, 32-33

travel methods of, 29

U.S. cruise missile attacks against (1998), 33, 39, 118-123, 125-126

on U.S. policies in Middle East, 19-20, 34, 37, 77, 78, 93-100, 148, 221

videotape of October 7, 2001, 221, 232-233

weapons of mass destruction and, 85, 123, 231

wives and children of, 12, 47, 163, 186

World Islamic Front for Jihad and, 95-96, 101

World Trade Center bombings. See World Trade Center, New York

bin Laden, Salem, 45-47

Ladin International Company, 80

Landi Khotal, Pakistan, 11

Lashkar-e-Taiba organization, 39, 216

Laskar Jihad, 192

Lebanon, 19, 21, 26, 49, 85, 141

LeMarch, Edward Henry, 8

Levi, Isaac, 158-159

Levin, Gerald, 114

Levit, George Mitchell Richmond, 8

Lewinsky, Monica, 118, 210

Lewis, Bernard, 97-98

Libya, 30, 38, 39, 116

al-Liby, Anas, 84, 206

Libyan Fighting Group, 86

Lohbeck, Kurt, 70

Los Angeles International Airport, 140, 142, 195, 234

Luxor massacre, 202, 203


Machule, Dittmar, 35

Mackenzie, Richard, 70, 71

MacLeod, Scott, 81

al-Madani, Khallad, 38

Mahaz, Abu, 70-71

Mahfouz, Khalid bin, 102

Mahfouz family, 42

Maimonides, Moses, 97

Malakand tribal area, 150

Malik, 145-147

Malmastiya (obligation to show hospitality), 161

Mao Tse-tung, 72

Maraqasha mountains, 173

Marston, Claire, 182

al-Masri, Osama, 182

Massoud, Ahmad Shah, 54, 70

in Afghan war, 70-73, 163

assassination of, 71, 163, 232

Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 158, 159

McCurry, Mike, 118

McMahon, John, 74

McVeigh, Timothy, 78

Mdobilu, Justina, 112

Mecca, 3, 8, 43-45, 47, 48, 51, 92, 93, 98, 174

Medina, 3, 44, 45, 47, 51, 92, 93, 98, 174

Mekhtab al-Khadamat (Services Office), 51, 54, 59, 86, 91, 107, 133, 218

Memorandum of Advice, 88

Mercy International Relief, 137

al-Mihdar, Khalid, 177

al-Mihdar, Zain al-Abdine (Abu Hassan), 177

Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants, 84, 206

Millennium celebrations, 139, 140, 195

Milosevic, Slobodan, 119, 224

Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, 155, 160

Mir, Hamid, 83, 139, 148, 203

Mogadishu, Somalia, 22, 72, 82, 83

Mohamed, Ali, 67, 85, 86, 127-133, 201, 204, 206, 228, 229

Mohamed, Khalfan Khamis, 30, 110-112

Mohamed, Mustafa, 204

Money changers, 103

Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 125

Moore, Jeanne, 209-212

Moro Islamic Liberation Front, 86, 217

Motorola Corporation, 46, 47

Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA), 4

Mubarak, Hosni, 91, 141, 198, 199, 227

Mughniyeh, Imad, 85

Muhammad, Prophet, 2, 3, 19, 21, 28, 44-45, 51, 77, 92-94, 96-98, 100, 157, 171, 185, 200

Muntazir, Abdullah, 39, 216-217

Murad, Abdul Hakim, 138

Muree, Pakistan, 213

Musharraf, Pervez, 34, 146, 165, 215

Muslim Brotherhood, 47, 54, 199, 226

Muslim World League, 55, 135

Muttawakil, Wakil Ahmed, 165, 209-211

Muzzafarabad, Pakistan, 212-214


Nagoroman River, 8

al-Nahdi, Jamal, 173

Nairobi, U.S. embassy in. See African embassy bombings (1998)

Nanawati (offering of asylum), 161

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 199, 200

National Commercial Bank (Saudi Arabia), 102

National Islamic Front (NIF), 79

National Mapping Agency, 116

National Security Agency, 28, 116, 229

National Security Council, 65

National Transportation Safety Board, 33

NBC News, 32

Newline magazine, 151

Newsweek magazine, 38

New World Order, 20, 78

Nganga, Sammy, 109, 110

Nieto, Marc, 187

Norman, Oklahoma, 36, 139

Northern Alliance, 160, 162, 163, 165, 175, 229, 230

North-West Frontier, 7, 9, 56, 90

Nosair, El Sayyid, 131, 205

Nuclear weapons, 84, 85, 100, 147, 208, 231

Nuremberg Laws, 166

Oakley, Robert, 144

Odeh, Mohamed, 53, 83, 106, 111, 113-114, 117, 118, 121

Oklahoma City federal building bombing (1995), 78, 187

Old Man of the Mountains, 227, 228

Oman, 225

Oman, Sultan of, 42

Omar, Mullah Mohammed, 15, 93, 95, 153, 162-164, 166

al-Omeri, Khaled, 44, 193-194

O'Neill, John, 25-26

Operation al-Aqsa, 105

Operation Desert Fox, 181

Operation Desert Shield, 77, 78

Operation Desert Storm, 78, 99, 226

Operation Infinite Reach, 118

Operation Restore Hope, 172

Orwell, George, 48

Osama bin Laden. See listing under L

Ottoman Empire, 20, 21, 75, 97, 98

al-'Owhali, Mohamed Rashed, 107-109, 118, 140, 183-184


Pakistan, 1, 30, 90

Afghan war and, 64-70, 73

Egyptian embassy bombing (1995), 90, 91

founding of, 147

Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), 64, 66, 68, 73, 145, 216, 229

Kashmiri militants, 208, 212, 215-216, 225

military coup (1999), 145-146, 153

popularity of bin Laden in, 148-149

religious schools in, 40, 122, 149-150

Taliban and, 144-145

U.S. cruise missile attacks against Afghanistan (1998), 119-120

women in, 148

Palestine, 19, 21, 98

Palestinian Authority, 226

Palestinian intifada, 28

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 85

Pan-Arabism, 39, 199

Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, 71

Pathan tribal group, 69, 153, 155, 156, 161, 230

"Patterns of Global Terrorism" (State Department), 189

Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 25, 221, 232

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 173

Perry, William, 94

Peshawar, Pakistan, 7-10, 51, 52, 54, 55-58, 62, 66, 70, 89

Philippines, 34, 35, 72, 138, 166, 217-218, 224

Pol-e-Charki prison, Afghanistan, 159-160

Popalzai tribe, 229

Porsche, 47

Post, Jerrold, 111

Powell, Colin, 26

Pressley, Frank, 109, 110

Protestant Reformation, 3

Pukhtunwali (code of conduct), 161


Qaddafi, Muammar, 70

al-Qaeda. See also bin Laden, Osama

African embassy bombings (1998), 25-27, 30, 32, 39, 77, 81, 101, 105-114, 117-118, 133

alliances with other groups, 85-86

Bosnian conflict and, 86

Cole bombing (2000), 25-27, 106, 112, 137, 167-169, 184, 186-190, 192-193, 197

in Egypt, 197-204

founding of, 59-60

global scope of, 30, 195-220

in Great Britain, 204-207

initial goals of, 59

organization and policies of, 30-31, 60

parallels between Assassins and, 227-228

recruitment videotape of, 26-27, 38, 40, 136, 204

Somalia and, 22, 81-83, 172

in Sudan, 78-80, 83-87

top officials of, 29

training camps of. See Training camps

U.S. based members and associates, 127-142

weapons of, 74, 100-101

weapons of mass destruction and, 84, 231

al-Zawahiri and, 202, 203

Qana, Lebanon, 21

Qatar, 38, 225

al-Qoso, Fahd, 187

Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, 38, 93, 99, 164, 175, 203

Al-Qudurat Trucking Company, 80

Quetta, Pakistan, 15, 135

Quin, Mary, 181-182

Qutb, Muhammad, 47-48

Qutb, Sayyid, 47-48, 52, 199-200


Rabbani, Burhanuddin, 50

Radisson hotel, Amman, Jordan, 185

Rahman, Abdel, 108, 112

Rahman, Asadallah, 101

Rahman, Asim, 101

Rahman, Fazalur, 145

Rahman, Fazil, 215

Rahman, Sheikh Omar Abdel, 29, 52-54, 66-67, 87, 101, 115, 127, 134, 136, 178, 201, 204

Raissi, Lotfi, 207-208

Raja, Akthar, 98

Ramadan, 147, 154, 170-171, 185

Ray, April, 135

Reagan, Ronald, 46, 47, 67, 70

Red Sea, 190

Ressam, Ahmed, 139-142, 195, 234

Reuter, Abu (alias), 60

"Rightly Guided" caliphs, 3

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 41, 44, 47

Riyalpolitik, 56

Roosevelt, Franklin, 93

Rowe, Peter, 182

Roy, Olivier, 71

al-Rubat Ba'eshn, Hadramawt, Yemen, 42, 43, 193

Rubin, Jamie, 114

Rules of Engagement (movie), 169

Rushdie, Salman, 60


Sadat, Anwar, 200-201

assassination of, 59, 130, 200, 201

Sadda training camp, Afghanistan, 137

Sadeek training camp, Afghanistan, 89

al-Safani, Abdul Rahman. See

al-Harazi, Mohammed Omar

Saif Islamic Jannubi, 86

Saladin, 97

Saleh, 204

Salih, Ali Abdallah, 171-173, 174, 183, 188, 192

Salim, Mamdouh Mahmud, 29, 85, 197

Salman, Prince, 55

Salman Farsi training camp, Afghanistan, 120

San'a, Yemen, 169-171

Sanchez, Linda, 128, 132

al-Saud, House of, 3, 89, 101

Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 44

Saudi Arabia, 23, 144, 221, 225

Afghan war and, 55-56

Hadrami emigration to, 42-43

Khobar Towers bombing (1996), 88

opposition to House of al-Saud, 3, 4, 19, 20, 56, 88-89

revokes bin Laden's citizenship, 89, 102

U.S. troops in, 3, 19-20, 46-47, 77, 78, 98

Saudi Binladin Group (SBG), 30, 46, 47, 101

Saudi General Intelligence agency, 55

Saudi Muslim World League, 54

Sayyaf, Abdul Rasool, 50, 52, 54, 137, 138, 166, 217, 218

Schultheis, Rob, 49

"Second Coming, The" (Yeats), 143

Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 24, 105

Secret Service, 116

September 11, 2001. See World Trade Center, New York

Serbs, 86, 179, 224

Shadid, Anthony, 226

Shaheed (martyr), 12, 59

Shah of Iran, 48

bin Shajea, Sheikh Muhammad, 168-169, 175-176

Shalabi, Mustafa, 133-134, 136

Al-Shamal Islamic Bank, Khartoum, 80

Shame (Rushdie), 60

al-Shamrani, Muslih, 87

Shamzai, Mufti Mizam-ud-din, 149

Sharif, Nawaz, 146, 151, 153, 165, 215

Sheehan, Michael, 114, 186

Sheik, Zahid, 137

Shia Islam, 85, 88, 151, 159, 165, 227

al-Shifa plant, Sudan, 123-125

Shuhadaa (martyr), 27

Shura (consultation with the people), 226

Signposts (S. Qutb), 47, 200

Simpson, John, 65

Singh, Jaswant, 211, 212

Sipah-e-Sahaba group, 151

al-Sirri, Yasser, 198-199, 204

Sirrs, Julie, 175

60 Minutes, 6

Slater, Elizabeth, 112

Snapple drinks, 47

Somalia, 22, 72, 81-83, 172, 224

Southern Baptists, 5

Soviet Union

Afghan war, 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 32, 40, 41, 48-60, 63-75, 84, 122-123, 163, 224-225, 230

collapse of, 20

Space Needle, Seattle, Washington, 140

Spanish Civil War, 48

Spetsnaz, 57, 129

Spinghar Hotel, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 13, 154

Stark, Freya, 43

State, U.S. Department of, 2, 26, 70, 80, 107, 116, 130, 144, 151, 159, 189

Stinger missiles, 73-75, 84, 100, 230

Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, 32

Subero, Guillermo, 217

Sudan, 98, 102, 224

bin Laden in, 78-81, 83-85, 91, 102

training camps in, 2, 28

U.S. cruise missile attacks against (1998), 119, 120, 123-125

Suez Canal, 168, 190

Sufism, 193

Sullivan & Cromwell, 46

Sunni Islam, 3, 85, 165, 227, 228

Supporters of Sharia (SoS), 179, 180

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, 157-158

Syria, 21, 30, 38, 98, 116, 225


Taba Investment, Ltd., 80

Tablighi Jamaar movement, 224

Taha, Rifia Ahmed, 29, 95, 203, 204

Tajikistan, 20, 86, 166

Tajiks, 156, 230

Taliban, 7, 72, 224

bin Laden and, 13, 92, 93, 102, 143, 153, 160-164, 166

destruction of Buddhist statues, 166

diplomatic recognition of, 14, 144

hardliners and moderates in, 153, 157, 165-166

human rights record of, 14, 144, 158-160

Indian Airlines hijacking (1999) and, 209-212

Karzai assassination and, 229

meaning of word, 13

Northern Alliance and, 160, 162, 163, 165

number of fighters, 230

rise to power of, 144-146

social policies of, 9, 14-16, 150, 155-156, 160

Stinger missiles and, 74, 230

women and, 13, 14, 16, 144, 155-158

Tamagni, Jordan, 114

Tanzania. See African embassy bombings (1998)

Taqi al-Din ibn Taimiya, 41

Taraki, Nur Mohammed, 68

Tehrik-e-Jihad, 215, 216

Tehrik-e-Taliban, 150

Tenet, George, 31

Thabit, Saeed, 174

Al-Themar agricultural company, 80

Third World Relief Agency, 86

Time magazine, 38, 81

Tolstoy, Leo, 219

Training camps

in Afghanistan, 2, 26, 28, 30-31, 40, 56, 64, 89-90, 120, 137, 164-165, 175, 234

in Sudan, 2, 28

in Yemen, 172, 191-192

TransAmerica building, San Francisco, California, 140

Tullius, Tom, 123-124

al-Turabi, Hassan, 79, 85

Turki al-Faisal Saud, Prince, 55

Tutsis, 224

TWA flight 800, 33


Ubaidah, Ubu, 57

Umar, Caliph, 97

Al-Umar group, 211

Umma (community of Muslim believers), 21, 196

United Airlines

flight 93, 25

flight 175, 24-25

United Arab Emirates, 103, 145

United Jihad Council, 216

United Nations, 143, 161, 214

University of Jordan, Amman, 52

Unocal, 144

Uruzgan, Afghanistan, 165, 232

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 11

U.S. Special Forces, 127, 229

U.S.S. Cole, 25-27, 106, 112, 137, 167-169, 184, 186-190, 192-193, 197

U.S.S. The Sullivans, 185, 186

Uzbekistan, 166

Uzbeks, 156


Vajpayee, Atal Bihar, 212

Vietnam war, 49

Volkswagen, 47


al-Wadai'i, Sheikh Moqbul, 191-192

Wadi al-Aqiq trading company, 80

Wahhabi Islam, 54

Wahhaj, Imam Siraj, 92

Waite, Terry, 16

Walker, Hosea, 192

Wani, Salim, 215-216

Whitehouse, Margaret, 182

Wilcox, Philip, 81

Williamson, Ruth, 182

Women

in Pakistan, 148

Taliban and, 13, 14, 16, 144, 155-158

in Yemen, 157

World Food Program (WFP), 158

World Islamic Front for Jihad, inauguration of, 95-96, 101

World Trade Center, New York

1993 bombing of, 1, 32, 34, 35, 104, 115, 131, 134-137, 187

2001 attacks on, 24-28, 35-37, 71, 78, 103, 104, 128, 136, 139, 177, 207-208, 221-222, 227, 231-234


Yeats, W.B., 143

Yemen, 30, 86, 195, 226

Afghan war and, 55

civil war, 173-174

Cole bombing (2000), 25-27, 106, 112, 137, 167-169, 184, 186-190, 192-193

government of, 171-172

hotel bombings (1992), 82, 172-173, 231

Islah party, 174, 188, 192, 226

kidnappings in, 72, 176-177, 181-183

training camps in, 172, 191-192

women in, 157

Yemen Arab Republic, 173

Yousaf, Mohammad, 66, 73, 230

Yousef, Ramzi, 34-35, 136-138, 218

Yusufzai, Rahimullah, 12, 101, 122, 152­154


Zagreb, Croatia, 86

Zargar, Mushtak Ahmed, 211

al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 52, 59, 95, 100, 108, 185­186, 200­205, 233

al-Zawahiri, Mohamed, 204

al-Zayyat, Montasser, 202, 203

055 Brigade, 162

Zia ul-Haq, General, 60, 69, 146, 149

al-Zindani, Abdul Majid, 29, 174

Zinni, Anthony, 190

Zubaida, Abu, 140