Jihad Joe (45 page)

41.
See
http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/2010/04/counter-counter-terrorism-8-fomenting.html
, retrieved July 23, 2010.

42.
Abu Talha Al Amriki, “
South Park
Aired Episode Insulting the Prophet (Salaa Allahu ‘Alayhi Wa Salam),” Revolution Muslim, retrieved April 15, 2010; the link was subsequently deleted.

43.
Dave Itzkoff, “
South Park
Episode Altered after Muslim Group's Warning,”
New York Times
, April 22, 2010.

44.
USA v. Zachary Adam Chesser
, CR 1:10 MS504, Affidavit of Mary Brandt Kinder.

45.
Ibid.

46.
Spencer S. Hsu and Michael Alison Chandler, “Graduate of Va.'s Oakton High Charged with Trying to Join Terrorist Group,”
Washington Post
, July 22, 2010.

47.
See
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/feds-arrest-man-behind-south-park-threats-37052/
, retrieved July 23, 2010. The thread was later deleted by the forum's moderators.

48.
Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet, “An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers,”
New York Times
, October 15, 2007.

49.
Inshallahshahid, “The Destiny of Israel,” retrieved July 31, 2010,
http://inshallahshaheed.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_archive.html
.

50.
Moss and Mekhennet, “An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers”

51.
See
http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=inshallahsha&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=inshallahshaheed
, retrieved July 30, 2010.

52.
Moss and Mekhennet, “An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers”; Alison Gendar, “Former New Yorker Samir Khan behind Graphics of New Al Qaeda Recruiting Magazine
Inspire
: Officials,”
New York Daily News
, July 18, 2010.

53.
Jihad Recollections
, no. 1, April 2009;
Jihad Recollections
, no. 4, September 2009; “Would-Be Portland Bomber Mohamed Osman Mohamud (a/k/a “Ibn al-Mubarak”): “Getting in Shape Without Weights,”
Flashpoint Partners
, retrieved Dec. 2, 2010,
http://www.globalterroralert.com/miscellaneous/723-would-be-portland-bomber-mohamed-osman-mohamud-aka-ibn-al-mubarak-getting-in-shape-without-weights.html
.

54.
Gendar, “Former New Yorker Samir Khan behind Graphics of New Al Qaeda Recruiting Magazine
Inspire
: Officials”; Paul Cruickshank, “U.S. Citizen Believed to Be Writing for al Qaeda Website, Source Says,” CNN.com, July 18, 2010, retrieved July 30, 2010,
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/18/al.qaeda.magazine/index.html
.

55.
Inspire
, Summer 2010, Al Malahem Media (al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula).

56.
Inspire
, Issue 3, obtained by the author, November 2010.

57.
Shelley Murphy and Milton J. Valencia, “Details Emerge on Plot Suspects: Two Young Men Reportedly Met at Sharon Mosque,”
Boston Globe
, October 23, 2009;
USA v. Tarek Mehanna
, Cr. No. 09-10017-GAO, Government's Proffer and Memorandum in Support of Detention.

58.
Murphy and Valencia, “Details Emerge on Plot Suspects: Two Young Men Reportedly Met at Sharon Mosque.”

59.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra
, 1:09-cr-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment, June 17, 2010.

60.
Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.

61.
Charles A. Radin, “From N.H. to Somalia: Recalling a Suspect's Zeal,”
Boston Globe
, February 17, 2007.

62.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra
, 1:09-cr-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment, June 17, 2010.

63.
Shelley Murphy, “FBI Calls Sudbury Suspect Inept but Serious Terror Plotter,”
Boston Globe
, October 22, 2009; Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.

64.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna
, 1:09-cr-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment, June 17, 2010.

65.
Confidential interview with senior Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, February 19, 2010.

66.
Murphy, “FBI Calls Sudbury Suspect Inept but Serious Terror Plotter.”

67.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna
, 1:09-cr-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment, June 17, 2010.

68.
Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009. Although Abousamra's travel habits suggest that he was serious about joining violent jihadists, it should be noted that his story of continual rejection does not square with the experiences of other American jihadists—consider Bryant Vinas, who managed to get quite far into al Qaeda without an apparent facilitator. According to Abousamra, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba had rejected
him because he was “not an Arab,” but the organization had accepted other white Americans—certainly whiter than the ethnically Syrian Abousamra. The Taliban had rejected him for “lack of experience,” but other cases suggested that this would not normally be an obstacle.

69.
“The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado,” retrieved July 29, 2010,
http://istighfar.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/the-chronicle-of-daniel-j-maldonado/
.

70.
USA v. Daniel Maldonado
, 4:07-mj-00125, Exhibit, handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado.

71.
Exhibit, second handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado; Criminal Complaint, Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.

72.
Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.

73.
“The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado.”

74.
USA v. Daniel Maldonado
, 4:07-mj-00125, Exhibit, handwritten letter from Daniel Maldonado.

75.
Ibid., Affidavit of Jeremiah A. George.

76.
“The Chronicles of Daniel J. Maldonado.”

77.
Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.

78.
Tarek Mehanna Blog, retrieved December 11, 2008,
http://iskandrani.wordpress.com
.

79.
For example,
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f47/aafia-siddiqui-i-saw-abu-sabaya-15153/
, retrieved December 11, 2008.

80.
Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.

81.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna
, Cr. No. 09-10017-GAO, Government's Proffer and Memorandum in Support of Detention.

82.
Search and Seizure Warrant, Case No. 09-122-LTS, Affidavit of Heidi L. Williams, October 20, 2009.

83.
See
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f47/
, retrieved July 29, 2010, among others; also see
http://freetarek.com/
,
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159128188381
,
http://twitter.com/freetarek
, retrieved July 29, 2010.

84.
USA v. Tarek Mehanna
, Cr. No. 09-10017-GAO, Second Superseding Indictment.

85.
See
http://news.intelwire.com/2010/07/aqap-inspire-magazine-is-nothing-new.html
, retrieved July 30, 2010;
http://news.intelwire.com/2010/07/AlQaedas-new-magazine-or-was-it-web.html
, retrieved July 30, 2010.

86.
“5 D.C.-Area Men Held in Pakistan,” CBS.com, December 9, 2009,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/09/world/main5951110.shtml
, retrieved July 30, 2010.

1.
USA v. Holy Land Foundation et al.
, Memorandum Opinion Order, July 1, 2009,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43380629/2009-order-on-Holy-Land-Foundationunindicted-coconspirator-list
, retrieved December 4, 2010. CAIR petitioned a federal judge to have its name stricken from a list of unindicted coconspirators in a Hamas financing case. A federal judge rejected CAIR's request, ruling that there is “at least a prima facie case as to CAIR's involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas.”

2.
Interview with Alyas Karmani, the director of STREET program (Strategy to Reach, Empower and Educate Teenagers), London, August 10, 2010.

3.
Confidential interviews, 2010.

4.
Abdullah Azzam,
Join the Caravan
(Boston: Care International, 1995), 12.

5.
Bill Gertz, “Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda-Trained Americans,”
Washington Times
, August 25, 2010.

6.
J.M. Berger, “Gadahn and Awlaki, Together At Last?,” Intelwire.com, October 23, 2010,
http://news.intelwire.com/2010/10/gadahn-and-awlaki-together-at-last.html
, retrieved December 4, 2010.

7.
See, among others, Aaron Weisburd, “Ansar Al Mujahideen: Zombie Forum Badly in Need of Brains,” Internet Haganah, retrieved September 6, 2010,
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006972.html#006972
.

8.
J. M. Berger, “Jihadists Add Strong Encryption to Terrorist Toolbox,” Intelwire.com, February 2, 2008. “Mujahideen Secrets 2” encryption software obtained by the author.

9.
Gertz, “Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda-Trained Americans”; Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, “Inside Al Qaeda,”
Newsweek
, September 4, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010,
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/inside-Al Qaeda.html
; and Leah Farrall, “Death of a Hoary Old Chestnut?”
All Things Counter Terrorism
blog, September 7, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010,
http://allthingsct.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/death-of-a-hoary-old-chestnut/
.

10.
Andy Barr, “Newt Gingrich Compares Mosque to Nazis,”
Politico
, August 16, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41112.html
; “Harry Reid: Ground Zero Mosque ‘Should Be Built Some Place Else,'”
CBS News
, August 16, 2010, retrieved September 6, 2010,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013773-503544.html
.

Primary sources for this book include nearly one hundred interviews with former law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic officials in both the United States and Bosnia; American jihadists and their families; victims of jihadist violence; and other individuals directly involved in the events described in this book. Document sources include

• Thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, including documents pertaining to the September 11 attacks, the Siege of Mecca, the war in Bosnia, the jihad against the Soviet Union, and Egyptian extremist groups.

• Thousands of pages of documents obtained from the National Archives pertaining to Anwar Awlaki and the activities of the September 11 hijackers in America.

• Court records from dozens of prosecutions of American jihadists, mostly obtained through PACER, as well as several thousand pages of exhibits pertaining to the Al Kifah Center in Boston, obtained from the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston.

• Documents pertaining to al Qaeda and Ali Mohamed that were obtained during the making of the 2007 National Geographic Channel documentary
Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America
.

• Several thousand pages of intelligence and al Qaeda documents
pertaining to the war in Bosnia obtained during the making of the 2010 European television documentary
Sarajevo Ricochet
.

•Court transcripts from major terrorism trials, especially
USA v. bin Laden et al.
(2001) and
USA v. Abdel Rahman et al.
(1995).

•A wide number of books and newspaper reports were consulted during the research process for this book. Especially valuable were reports from the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post
, and the
L.A. Times
. Books to which the author is especially indebted include
The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
, by John Miller and Michael Stone with Chris Mitchell (Hyperion, 2003), and
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 2006).

Abdullah, Mohdar,
120
–21

Abouhalima, Mahmud,
29
,
48
–49,
66
–67,
97

Abousamra, Ahmad,
193
–94,
197
–98,
201

Abu Hamza Al Masri,
152

Abu Mansour Al Amriki (Bosnia),
86

Abu Mansour Al Amriki (Somalia), see Hammami, Omar

Afghanistan: jihad against the Soviets,
vii
,
xi
,
xiii
,
5
–32,
35
–38,
41
–42,
45
,
47
–48,
53
,
61
–63,
80
,
84
–85,
87
,
94
–95,
118
,
207
; post–September 11,
129
,
149
,
151
–52,
154
,
156
–58,
160
–61,
163
,
165
,
169
,
171
,
183
–87,
200
,
203
–4,
209
–10,
214
; post–Soviet era,
99
–100,
102
–3,
106
–10,
113
,
115
–16

Ajaj, Ahmad,
47
–49

Airman Flight School,
103
,
131