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Simon & Schuster Audio, November 2001
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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