“ Al Quds al Arabi, Feb. 23, 1998 (trans. Foreign Broadcast Information Service) , which was published for a large Arab world audience and signed by Usama Bin Ladin,Ayman al Zawahiri (emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad) ,Abu Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha (leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group) , Mir Hamzah (secretary of the Jamiat ul Ulema e Pakistan) , and Fazlul Rah-man (head of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh) .
2. "Hunting Bin Ladin," PBS Frontline broadcast, May 1998 (online at www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ shows/binladen/who/interview.html) . ”

“ See Tim Carney interview (Dec. 4, 2003) ; Donald Petterson interview (Sept. 30, 2003) ; DOS cable, Nairobi 7020, "Sudan: Foreign Minister on Developments re Terrorism and Peace," May 21, 1996. On the attempted assassination of Bin Ladin, see FBI report of investigation, interview of L'Houssaine Kherchtou, Oct. 15, 2000; FBI report of investigation, interview of confidential source, Sept. 16, 1999.
62. Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, July 23, 2003.
63. Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale Univ. Press, 2000) , p. 133 ”

“ See, e.g., Marvin Weinbaum interview (Aug. 12, 2003) ;William Milam interview (Dec. 29, 2003) . Milam described "strategic depth" as Pakistan's need for a friendly, pliable neighbor on the west due to its hostile relationship with India on the east.
67. On Pakistan's consent, see Ahmed Rashid interview (Oct. 27, 2003) ; see also Rashid, Taliban, p. 139; Intelligence report,Terrorism: Activities of Bin Ladin's in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India, July 14, 1997; FBI investigation, interview of former al Qaeda associate, Mar. ”