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References for 2005 Book

BIN LADEN'S PLAN
The Project for the New Al Qaeda Century

(Trafford Publishing, 2005)


References*


[1] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 184; Los Angeles Times, 10/6/04; www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/20/cheney.iraq/index.html; www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript344_full.html; Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Pre-War Intelligence and "Mapping the Global Future" by the National Intelligence Council available at

www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/09/senate.intelligence/index.html and Washington Post, 1/14/05
[2] www.iraqtimeline.com/1988.html

[3] www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm

[4] Testimony to the 9/11 Commission by Richard Clarke, former head of Counterterrorism for the Clinton Administration and the Bush II Administration, 3/23/04.

[5] www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm

[6] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[7] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.25; www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html; "World Trade Center: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon", a History Channel documentary, 2002.

[8] "Ramzi Yousef", the History Channel, 8/23/04.

[9] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.392; Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror by Rohan Gunaratna, 2002.

[10] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.388.

[11] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.389.

[12] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.188.

[13] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html

[14] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.167; www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?010924fr_archive03; www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020916fa_fact2h

[15] www.intelwire.com/2004_04_22_exclusives.html

[16] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.167.

[17] Osama bin Laden video release, December 26, 2001.

[18] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html

[19] www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103176,00.html

[20] www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103176,00.html

[21] www.iraqtimeline.com/1996.html

[22] www.iraqtimeline.com/1996.html; www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/longroad/etc/assassination.html

[23] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/interviews/ibrahim.html; Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.36.

[24] www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020916fa_fact2h

[25] www.iraqtimeline.com/1996.html

[26] The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, p.96-97.

[27] www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6581-2004Jun25?language=printer; www.worldthreats.com/al-qaeda_terrorism/Iran%20AIQ%20Link.htm; "The Foundation of the New Terrorism", 9/11 Commission Report, p.60, available at www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch2.htm

[28] www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020916fa_fact2h; http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

[29] www.acrossborders.com/documents/deforres.html

[30] Daily Telegraph, 8/12/98.

[31] www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/2004/01sanctionsworth.htm

[32] "Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America" by Laurie Mylroie, American Enterprise Institute.

[33] The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, p.72.

[34] www.rahulmahajan.com/intlaw.htm

[35] The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000, p.49; www.cnn.com/2002/world/meast/11/16/blix.spies

[36] Reuters, 10/12/00.

[37] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p503.

[38] A transcript of President Bush I's "New World Order" speech is available at www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/bushsr.htm

[39] U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee On Armed Services, Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region: U.S. Policy Options and Implications, Hearings, 101st Congress, 2nd Session (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990), p. 10-13.

[40] The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, 9/28/04.

[41] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/interviews/scheuer.html

[42] www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030210fa_fact

[43] www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7866851.htm

[44] http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/powell.binladen; www.thememoryhole.org/war/yt-misleading.htm

[45] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm

[46] www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/publications/General_Powell.htm

[47] www.veteransforpeace.org/TalkingPoints/Iraq%20War/response2powellUN.htm

[48] www.ict.org.il/articles/mediaarticledet.cfm?articleid=46

[49] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[50] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004; The New Jackals by Simon Reeve, 1999.

[51] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 172.

[52] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2751019.stm

[53] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[54] "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War", a documentary directed by Robert Greenwald; www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021028ta_talk_mayer

[55] Washington Post, 10/7/04; Los Angeles Times, 10/12/04.

[56] http://durbin.senate.gov/sitepages/addrocklevSSCI_report.htm

[57] www.cnn.com/2004/allpolitics/06/16/911.commission/index.html

[58] www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript344_full.html; The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 184.

[59] www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/09/senate.intelligence/index.html; Washington Post, 1/14/05.

[60] www.time.com, posted on 3/17/04

[61] www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/international/middleeast/22intel.html

[62] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.185.

[63] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.135-136; www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[64] "War Radicalized Most, Probes Find" by Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, 7/17/05; http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&summit=&storyid=2005-09-18T122409Z_01_SPI844066_RTRUKOC_O_UK-IRAQ-SAUDI-FIGHTERS.xml

[65] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092305D.shtml

[66] "Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication", Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, September 2004, p.39-40.

[67] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.179-180.

[68] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/interviews/scheuer.html; Christian Science Monitor, 2/25/03; www.president-bush.com/osamas-stooge.html

[69] "Progress Report: The Iraq War", CNN Presents, 7/23/05.

[70] "Iraq Minister Warns of Fuel, Power Hikes", Sinan Salaheddin, AP, 5/29/05; www.factcheck.org/printerfriendly334.html

[71] www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.deaths

[72] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081705B.shtml

[73] CBS Evening News, 6/21/05.

[74] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4692589.stm; "Heavy-handed occupation is not a solution to the Iraqi insurgency" by Robin Cook, Guardian, 7/15/05.

[75] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091905J.shtml

[76] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081605E.shtml

[77] http://unansweredquestions.org/timeline/1990s/nation021599.html

[78] The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, xiv-xv.

[79] "Moderate Muslims Split on Suicide Bombings" by Thomas Wagner, AP, 7/20/05; http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD97105

[80] "War Radicalized Most, Probes Find" by Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, 7/17/05.

[81] www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hayden16aug16,0,7169089.story

[82] Washington Post, 1/14/05.

[83] "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" by Robert A. Pape; "Martyrdom: The Psychology, Theology and Politics of Self-Sacrifice" by Dr. Rona M. Fields.

[84] www.rense.com/general66/ssui.htm; www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=6286

[85] www.news24.com/News24/World/Londonattacks/0,,2-10-1854_1739343,00.html; "Riding Pillion for Tackling Terrorism is a High-Risk Policy" by The Royal Institute of International Affairs (also known as Chatham House), 2005.

[86] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", The Project for the New American Century, September 2000, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[87] "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire", a film documentary produced by the Media Education Foundation.

[88] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.14, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[89] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.35, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[90] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.14, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[91] "Defense Policy Guidance 1992", Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon.

[92] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605A.shtml

[93] www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

[94] www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/220.html; www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/pnacletter.html

[95] www.newamericancentury.org

[96] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.63, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[97] "Rebuilding America's Defenses pgs. 11,14, 7-8, 51-52, 54-55, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf; www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss5.html; www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss9.html

[98] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.54, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[99] www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm

[100] www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480

[101] www.culturechange.org/CarlyleEmpire.html

[102] www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3309.htm

[103] National Public Radio, All Things Considered, 9/15/00.

[104] George W. Bush, the first 2000 US Presidential Debate, 10/03/00

[105] http://fpif.org/candidates/topics.html

[106] George W. Bush, the first 2000 US Presidential Debate, 10/03/00

[107] www.fpif.org/candidates/topics.html

[108] www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e599.htm

[109] "Avoiding Armageddon: Part II", a PBS documentary.

[110] www.businessweek.com/2000/00_5/b37/2059.htm

[111] Bob Woodward on 60 Minutes, 4/18/04.

[112] www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/072600wh-cheney.html

[113] www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-11-2002_pg4_10

[114] The World Policy Institute's "Arms Trade Resource Center", available at http://yeoldeconsciousnessshoppe.com/art125.html

[115] The World Policy Institute's "Arms Trade Resource Center", available at http://yeoldeconsciousnessshoppe.com/art125.html

[116] www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0601-03.htm

[117] www.tpj.org/pioneers/pioneers04/summary.html

[118] www.tpj.org/pioneers/pioneers04/summary.html

[119] Report by the Center for Public Integrity, 10/30/03.

[120] www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2005/08/21/2003268632

[121] Los Angeles Times, 10/29/04; www.topplebush.com/article7_cheney.shtml; www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/pref_treat.html

[122] www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199911/Bush.asp

[123] www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/energybriefing.htm

[124] www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html

[125] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/20/politics/main612852.shtml

[126] www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3309.htm

[127] House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger.

[128] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905G.shtml

[129] Washington Post, 9/27/00, Page A12.

[130] House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger.

[131] www.truthout.org/docs_04/092204X.shtml

[132] www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/15/herold/index.html; www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1464050,00.html; "Experts: Petroleum May be Nearing Peak", Matt Crenson, AP, 5/29/05; Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Mathew Simmons, 2005; Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management by Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling, a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, February 2005, available at www.oilcrisis.com/us/NETL/OilPeaking.pdf; "The Breaking Point" by Peter Maass, New York Times, 8/21/05; Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes, 2005.

[133] www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2400_; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605C.shtml

[134] www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/usa.html

[135] www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1343234

[136] www.iraqtimeline.com/1996.html

[137] www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2277

[138] Washington Post, 9/27/00, Page A12.

[139] www.commondreams.org/news2000/0928-09.htm

[140] The Second 2000 Presidential Debate, 10/11/00.

[141] www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050425&s=klare

[142] New York Times, 3/20/05.

[143] www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html?gusrc=rss

[144] www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

[145] www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8646744; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505D.shtml; www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4929660&ft=1&f=1001

[146] www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2277

[147] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

[148] "How the US Got Its Neo-Liberal Way in Iraq" by Herbert Docena, Asia Times Online, available at www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI01Ak01.html

[149] www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8646744

[150] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605C.shtml

[151] "Sept. 11 Factors That Hurt U.S. Economy Led to Economic Boom in Gulf" by Jim Krane, AP, 8/25/05.

[152] National Catholic Reporter, 2/21/03; 60 Minutes, 4/18/04.

[153] www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml

[154] Bush At War by Bob Woodward.

[155] www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3814

[156] The Guardian, 9/3/02, paper available at www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm

[157] "The Men from JINSA and CSP", The Nation, posted on 8/15/02.

[158] www.jinsa.org/about/agenda/agenda.html

[159] "The Men from JINSA and CSP", The Nation, posted on 8/15/02.

[160] freerepublic.com/forum/a392a1f78394e.htm

[161] www.jewishworldreview.com/1200/bush.watch.html

[162] www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html

[163] The Price of Loyalty by Paul O'Neill.

[164] www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/19/120851.shtml; www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,611529,00.html?cnn=yes; www.wsws.org/articles/2004/sep2004/isra-s01.shtml; www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html

[165] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,611529,00.html?cnn=yes; www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,604000,00.html?cnn=yes

[166] www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=207

[167] www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/27/fbi.spy/index.html; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905E.shtml

[168] The second Bush/Gore Presidential Debate, 10/11/00.

[169] www.fas.org/news/Iraq/2000/07/000706-iraq1.htm

[170] "Rebuilding America's Defenses", p.3, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[171] www.armscontrol.org/act/1999_04-05/chiam99.asp

[172] The Price of Loyalty by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind and former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

[173] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

[174] Sunday Herald, 10/5/02; Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02.

[175] www.truthout.org/docs_04/092204X.shtml

[176] www.truthout.org/docs_04/092204X.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505B.shtml

[177] www.gregpalast.com, posted on 6/15/05.

[178] The New York Times, August 27, 2002.

[179] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

[180] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

[181] Rebuilding America's Defenses, p.63, available at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[182] Bush At War by Bob Woodward.

[183] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

[184] CBS Evening News, 9/4/02.

[185] Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke, the longest serving counterterrorism advisor to the American presidency, having served under every administration since the Reagan administration.

[186] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,235395,00.html

[187] 60 Minutes, 3/21/04.

[188] www.cnn.com/2004/allpolitics/03/22/bush.clarke/index.html

[189]  The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.858.

[190] www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43909-2003Jan1?language=printer

[191] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.859.

[192] www.democrats.com/node/4701; News Hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, 6/16/05.

[193] http://gnn.tv/articles/698/_Committee_for_the_Liberation_of_Iraq_Sets_Up_Shop; www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0221-04.htm

[194] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

[195] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

[196] AP, 9/6/04.

[197] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,235395,00.html

[198] www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

[199] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201857.html

[200] "Memos Show British Concern Over Iraq Plans" by Thomas Wagner, AP, 6/18/05; www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/ricketts/020322.pdf

[201] www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5

[202] www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1; www.democrats.com/node/4701

[203] Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/30/05.

[204] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm; www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html

[205] "Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War" by Thomas Wagner, AP, 6/19/05.

[206] http://rawstory.com/news/2005/British_U.S._justification_for_increased_prewar_bombing_foun_0804.html

[207] www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.bush14sep14,0,5313335.story; www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m20.shtml

[208] www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/meyers020318.pdf

[209] www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html

[210] http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2003/0210/epf107.htm

[211] www.whatreallyhappened.com/lieofthecentury.html

[212] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

[213] www.gregpalast.com, posted on 6/15/05.

[214] John Kerry, First Presidential Debate, 9/30/04.

[215] Reuters, 10/13/04.

[216] Los Angeles Times, 10/19/04; Washington Post, 10/7/04; www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/03/tenet.resigns/index.html

[217] "The War President" by Paul Krugman, New York Times, 6/24/05.

[218] www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-26-poll-us-not-winning-iraq_x.htm

[219] The Guardian, 6/3/04.

[220] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505B.shtml

[221] www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3

[222] "Ecuador Gets Chavez'd", The Nation, 5/16/05, available at www.TheNation.com

[223] www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/international/middleeast/18najaf.html?oref=login; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091405K.shtml

[224] The Guardian, 4/18/05.

[225] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105N.shtml

[226] AP, 11/23/04; www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/02/money.rebuilding.ap/index.html; www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050122-094419-5388r.htm; USA Today, 1/27/05; Washington Post, 12/24/04.

[227] www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/chalabi.html

[228] "How the US Got Its Neo-Liberal Way in Iraq" by Herbert Docena, Asia Times Online, available at www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI01Ak01.html

[229] Reuters, 8/17/04; Los Angeles Times, 10/29/04; www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3309.htm

[230] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,611529,00.html?cnn=yes; www.wsws.org/articles/2004/sep2004/isra-s01.shtml; www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082505E.shtml; "West Bank Said Sees Growth in Population" by Josef Federman, AP, 8/26/05.

[231] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,611529,00.html?cnn=yes

[232] www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/27/senate_probe_of_prewar_intelligence_stalls?mode=PF

[233] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.500.

[234] www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/29/cole.deploys.ap/index.html

[235] www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june04/911_06-16.html

[236] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.501.

[237] "Targeted: Osama bin Laden", The History Channel.

[238] www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chron.html

[239] House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger.

[240] Bin Laden's February 1998 Declaration of War Against America; The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, p.69.

[241] Time Magazine, 10/23/00.

[242] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p.502.

[243] The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, p. xxi.

[244] www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000611.php; www.fas.org/irp/crs/033104.pdf

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[246] Knight Ridder newspapers, 4/15/05; www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm

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[467] Reuters, 1/19/05.

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[472] www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671919,00.html?cnn=yes

[473] www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/12335473.htm

[474] www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aht_04M3ecPY&refer=us

[475] www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm

[476] www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/21/iran/print.html

[477] www.nytimes.com/2005/08/06/politics/06bomb.html

[478] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091301837_pf.html

[479] "U.S. Presses Case for Action Against Iran" by Andrea Dudikova, AP, 9/21/05.

[480] "Intelligence Sees Terrorists in Iran" by Katherine Shrader and John Solomon, 6/3/05, AP.

[481] www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0614

[482] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[483] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[484] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101453.html

[485] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml

[486] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305E.shtml

[487] www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0614

[488] www.truthout.org, 3/18/05, by Ray McGovern; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml

[489] www.washtimes.com/world/20050929-114709-2065r.htm

[490] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105D.shtml

[491] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080105A.shtml

[492] www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1566848,00.html?gusrc=rss; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091105I.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091405E.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091405H.shtml

[493] Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 1/24/05.

[494] The American Conservative, August 1, 2005, p.27; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml; www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/020805nukeiran.htm

[495] www.ufppc.org/content/view2295

[496] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm; www.hillnews.com/news/040203/terrorist.aspx

[497] Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 1/24/05.

[498] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm

[499] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm; www.hillnews.com/news/040203/terrorist.aspx; www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32476&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs; www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-31.htm

[500] www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29133

[501] "The Iran War Buildup" by Michael T. Klare, The Nation, 7/21/05.

[502] www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=70217&d=17&m=9&y=2005

[503] New York Times, 10/3/04, "The Draft Card".

[504] www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

[505] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/18/world/main554415.shtml

[506] www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=1687; www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[507] www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1632576,00.html

[508] www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=1687

[509] "Attackers Fire Missiles as U.S. Navy Ship" by Jamal Halaby, AP, 6/19/05.

[510] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.35.

[511] "9/11 and Manipulation of the USA" by Norman Solomon, truthout.org, 9/11/05.

[512] 9/11 Commission Report, Executive Summary.

[513] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.163.

[514] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092305Y.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505Z.shtml

[515] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1146056

[516] Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape.

[517] http:/observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html

[518] New York Times, 9/24/03; Reuters, 2/3/03; Inter Press Service, 1/26/03, 7/6/04; Asia Times, 1/10/03; Newsday, 10/17/04; www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2003/0406war.htm

[519] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

[520] www.cbpp.org/3-14-02foreignaid.htm

[521] "Battling World Poverty", The Charlie Rose Show, 12/21/04.

[522] International Herald Tribune, 2/25/03.

[523] Christian Science Monitor, 6/26/03.

[524] Guardian, 7/9/03.

[525] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

[526] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp; "Battling World Poverty", The Charlie Rose Show, 12/21/04.

[527] www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908762.html

[528] www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2004/01/07

[529] Reuters, 9/19/04.

[530] www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2004/01/07

[531] www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908762.html

[532] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp

[533] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp

[534] "Vehicle of Change: How Fuel-Cell Cars Could Revolutionize the World", Scientific American, October 2002; "Are We Almost Tapped Out?: Safeguarding Every Drop of Clean Water", Scientific American, February 2001; "What Science Will Know in 2050", Scientific American, December 1999.

[535] Time Magazine, 1/17/05.

[536] CBS Evening News, 6/20/05.

[537] www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45634

[538] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 184, 655-658.

[539] 9/11 Commission Report, Executive Summary.

[540] www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=452; The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse by Paul L. Williams (a former FBI consultant), 2005.

[541] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.147.

[542] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.68.

[543] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.177, 190, 213.

[544] AP, 3/30/04; White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer, 3/19/02.

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