FTR#423—I’ve Got a Secret: Update on September 11 and Related Subjects—(Two
30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded on 9/8/2003.)
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Summary of FTR#423—(Note: The massive
volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. It is recommended that listeners use this
description and e-mail it to others. Also: The “meat” of the book “Martin
Bormann: Nazi in Exile” has been digested into an extended description for FTR#305. Listeners can now e-mail this
quintessentially important book to people around the world. In addition, the
professional history of the late Paul Manning, the book’s author, is presented
in the description “About Paul Manning.” This
enables listeners to acquaint others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic
credentials. Understanding the Bormann organization is essential to
comprehending the concept of “the Underground Reich.”) Bringing the investigation of 9/11 and related matters up to date, this
program takes its name from an old TV quiz show titled, “I’ve Got a Secret.”
Beginning with confirmation of the direct White House role in facilitating the
escape from the United States of members of the Saudi elite (including Bin
Laden family members implicated in terrorist matters), the broadcast discusses
the many attempts by the Bush administration to suppress information about the
9/11 attacks. The well-publicized Bush administration suppression of (a section
of) a congressional report on the attacks has helped to obscure information
about a Saudi governmental role in the attacks. Part of the alleged Saudi
governmental role (in the attacks) entails Saudi intelligence operatives’
participation in the conspiracy. In addition, Bush is censoring information
about how much forewarning his administration had received about the attacks,
as well as continued suppression of documentation of terrorist funding
conduits. Much of the second side of the program consists of an update of the
Al Taqwa/Nada Management connections, including further information about an Al
Taqwa/Saddam Hussein link.
Program Highlights Include: Excerpts from
a “Vanity Fair” article detailing
the Bush efforts to evacuate the Bin Ladens from the US; the description
features sections of a very important
“Wall Street Journal” article( that came out a week after the original
broadcast) that further documents the Al Taqwa/Al Qaeda link; US
corporations’ smuggling of high-tech equipment to Saddam Hussein through German
and South Korean intermediaries; those intermediary companies’ use of the term
“our common enemy” to refer to the United States; Al Taqwa links to a Saudi
allegedly connected to Al Qaeda funding; an Al Taqwa scheme to launder assets
plundered from Kuwait in 1991; Al Gore’s attempts to prevail on the Saudis to
stop funding terrorism.
1.
Updating and developing a topic discussed in FTR#’s 337, 347, the broadcast details the evacuation from the
United States of members of the Bin Laden family in the immediate aftermath of
9/11. For the first time, it has been confirmed that the upper echelons of the
Bush administration were involved in the decision to evacuate the Bin Ladens at
a time when the vast majority of Americans could not fly. “Top White House officials personally approved
the evacuation of dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama
bin Laden, from the United States in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
when most flights were still grounded, a former White House adviser said today.
The adviser, Richard Clarke, who ran the White House crisis team after the
attacks but has since left the Bush administration, said he agreed to the
extraordinary plan because the Federal Bureau of investigation assured him that
the departing Saudis were not linked to terrorism. The White House feared that
the Saudis could face ‘retribution’ for the hijackings if they remained in the
United States, Mr. Clarke said. . . .” (“White House Approved
Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11, Ex-Aide Says” by Eric Lichtblau; The New York Times; 9/4/2003; p. A15.)
2.
“ . . . Mr.
Clarke first made his remarks about the plan in an article in Vanity Fair due out Thursday, and he
expanded on those remarks today in an interview and in congressional testimony.
The White House said today that it had no comment on Mr. Clarke’s statements. .
. .” (Idem.)
3.
As will be discussed below, at least two of the Bin Laden family
evacuees appear to be involved with the Al Qaeda milieu. “Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New
York, seized on Mr. Clarke’s comments to call on the White House to conduct an
investigation into the hasty departures of about 140 Saudis from the United
States in the days after the attacks. Mr. Schumer said in an interview that he
suspected that some of the Saudis who were allowed to leave, particularly two
relatives of Mr. bin Laden who he said had links to terrorist groups
themselves, could have shed light on the events of Sept. 11. ‘This is just
another example of our country coddling the Saudis and giving them special
privileges that others would never get,’ Mr. Schumer said. ‘It’s almost as if
we didn’t want to find out what links existed. . . .’” (Idem.)
4.
“But the Vanity Fair investigation quotes Dale
Watson, the former head of counterterrorism at the F.B.I., as saying that the
departing Saudis ‘were not subject to serious interviews or interrogations.’
Mr. Watson could not be reached for comment today. The article depicts an
elaborate but hurried evacuation carried out within a week of the hijackings in
which private planes picked up Saudis from 10 cities around the country. Some
aviation and bureau officials said they were upset by the operation because the
government had not lifted flight restrictions for the general public, but those
officials said they lacked the power to stop the evacuation, the article says.
. .” (Idem.)
5.
“Mr. Schumer said
he doubted the thoroughness of a rushed review by the bureau, and in a letter
to the White House today he said the Saudis appeared to have gotten ‘a free
pass’ despite their possible knowledge about the attacks. ‘I find it hard to
believe that two days after 9/11, the F.B.I. would even know what questions to
ask and who to ask it of,’ Mr. Schumer said in an interview. ‘The F.B.I.’s
confidence that nothing of value was lost here is questionable.’” (Idem.)
6.
Although it was not directly accessed in the original broadcast, the Vanity Fair article referenced in the
above New York Times story is
excerpted here for the listeners’ scrutiny. Abdullah and Khalil Bin Laden were
the two members of the Al Qaeda-linked family alluded to by Senator Schumer. “The young bin
Ladens and members of the House of Saud who were living in the United States in
September 2001 were mostly students attending high school or college and young
professionals. Several bin Ladens had attended Tufts University near Boston.
Sana bin Laden had graduated from Wheelock College, in Boston. Abdullah bin
Laden, a younger brother of Osama’s, was a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School
and had offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. . . .” (“Saving the
Saudis” by Craig Unger; Vanity Fair;
October/2003; p. 165.)
7.
“ . . .But
half-brother Khalil Binladin decided to go back to Jidda. Khalil, who has a
Brazilian wife, had been appointed Brazil’s honorary consul in Jidda, though he
also owns a sprawling 20-acre estate in Winter Garden, Florida, near Orlando.” (Idem.)
8.
Abdullah Bin Laden is linked to the WAMY, which in turn overlaps Al
Qaeda, the GOP’s Republican ethnic outreach organization and the Al Taqwa
milieu. (For more about this connection, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 356, 357, 376, 415.) “In fact, the
F.B.I. had been keeping an eye on some of the bin Ladens. A classified F.B.I.
file examined by Vanity Fair and
marked ‘Secret’ shows that as early as 1996, the bureau had spent nearly nine
months investigating Abdullah and Omar bin Laden, who were involved with the
American branch of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a charity that
has published writings by Islamic scholar Sayyid Qutb, one of Osama bin Laden’s
intellectual influences.” (Ibid.; p. 175.)
9.
In addition, Khalil bin Laden has interests in the tri-border area
discussed in—among other programs--FTR#402.
“Khalil bin
Laden, who boarded a plane in Orlando that eventually took him back to Saudi
Arabia, won the attention of Brazilian investigators for possible terrorist
connections. According to a Brazilian paper, he had business connections in the
Brazilian province of Minas Gerais, not far from the tri-border region, an alleged
center for training terrorists. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 176.)
10.
“F.B.I. officials
declined to comment on the investigation, which was reported in Britain’s The Guardian, but the documents show
that the file on Abdullah and Omar was reopened on September, 19, 2001, while
the Saudi repatriation was still under way. ‘These documents show there was an
open F.B.I. investigation into these guys at the time of their departure,’ says
David Armstrong, an investigator for the Public Education Center, the
Washington, D.C., foundation that obtained the documents.” (Idem.)
11.
Among the points apparently contained in the deleted portion of the
congressional report on the 9/11 attacks is information implicating the Saudi
government in the conspiracy. “The 28 pages deleted from a congressional report on Sept.
11 depict a Saudi government that not only provided significant money and aid
to the suicide hijackers but also allowed potentially hundreds of millions of
dollars to flow to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups through suspect
charities and other fronts, according to sources familiar with the document.
One U.S. official who has read the classified section said it described ‘direct
involvement of senior (Saudi) government officials in a coordinated and
methodical way directly to the hijackers,’ as well as ‘very direct, very
specific links that cannot be passed off as rogue, isolated or coincidental.’
Another official said: ‘It’s really damning. What it says is that not only
Saudi entities or nationals are implicated in 9/11, but the (Saudi) government
as well.’” (“Report Says Saudis Aided 9/11 Hijackers” [Chronicle
News Services]; The San Francisco
Chronicle; 8/2/2003; p. A1.)
12.
Bush himself was responsible for the refusal to declassify the report.
(For more about the business connections between the Bush and Bin Laden
families, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
329, 347, 355, 376. For more
about the areas of intersection between the milieu of Al Qaeda, the Muslim
Brotherhood and the GOP, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 356, 357, 382, 415.) “President Bush refused today to declassify a 28-page
chapter of a Congressional report on the September 2001 attacks. He said that
disclosure of the deleted section, which centers on allegations about Saudi
Arabia’s role in financing the hijackings, would ‘would help the enemy,’ and
compromise the administration’s campaign against terror.” (“Bush
Refuses to Declassify Saudi Section of Report” by David Johnston and Douglas
Jehl; The New York Times; 7/30/2003;
p. A1.)
13.
According to some analysts, the classified information may implicate
Saudi intelligence operatives in the machinations in, and around, 9/11. “The classified
part of a Congressional report on the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, says
that two Saudi citizens who had at least indirect links with two hijackers were
probably Saudi intelligence agents and may have reported to Saudi government
officials, according to people who have seen the report. These findings,
according to several people who have read the report, help to explain why the
classified part of the report has become so politically charged, causing
strains between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Senior Saudi officials have
denied any links between their government and the attacks and have asked that
the section be declassified, but President Bush has refused.” (“Report
on 9/11 Suggests a Role by Saudi Spies” by James Risen and David Johnston; The New York Times; 8/2/2003; p. 1;
accessed at www.nytimes.com
.)
14.
“The report urges
further investigation of the two men and their contacts with the hijackers,
because of unresolved questions about their relationship and whether they had
any involvement in the 9/11 plot. The edited 28-page section of the report,
produced by a joint panel of the House and Senate intelligence committees, also
says that a Muslim cleric in San Diego was a central figure in a support
network that aided the same two hijackers. Most connections drawn in the report
between the men, Saudi intelligence and the attacks are circumstantial, several
people who have read the report said.” (Idem.)
15.
Beyond the 28 pages of classified material in the congressional report
on 9/11, the Bush administration is actively covering up the extent to which it
ignored intelligence warnings foreshadowing the attacks. “It’s not just the Saudi secret that’s being
kept. The recent report of the joint congressional committee that probed
intelligence failures before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon reveals what the Bush administration doesn’t want Americans to
know about the American government. You would not know this from media accounts
about this report. They have dwelled on what the Bush administration doesn’t
want us to know about the Saudi government.” (“U.S. Clamps Secrecy
on Warnings Before 9/11” Marie Cocco; Newsday;
8/7/2003; p. 1; accessed at www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc073404676aug07,0,4849578.column
.)
16.
“This is the
famous 28-page chapter, a series of blank lines across page after page, that
the president refuses to declassify despite the pleadings of the bipartisan
group of lawmakers and the Saudi government itself. The dustup over Saudi
secrets is exquisitely convenient. It obscures George W. Bush’s relentless hold
on U.S. secrets and on information he maintains should be secret, though it has
not necessarily been before now.” (Idem.)
17.
“The report’s
appendix hints at what these secrets are, and why they are kept. ‘Access
Limitations Encountered by the Joint Inquiry,’ the section is titled. The White
House refused to provide contents of the president’s daily brief. This would
clear up questions about how much specific information President Bush received
about an impending attack during the spring and summer of 2001—a period in
which the intelligence community was reporting with alarm that a ‘spectacular’
attack against the United States involving ‘mass casualties’ was in the works.”
(Idem.)
18.
A recent Village Voice article
highlighted some of the warnings. “ . . . The report lists 36 different summaries of warnings
dating back to 1997. Among them: ‘In September 1998, the [Intelligence
Community] obtained information that Bin Laden’s next operation might involve
flying an explosive-laden aircraft into a U.S. airport and detonating it.’ ‘In
the fall of 1998, the [Intelligence Community] obtained information concerning
a Bin Laden plot involving aircraft in the New York and Washington, D.C.
areas.’” (“Bush’s 9-11 Secrets” [“Mondo Washington”] by James
Ridgeway; The Village Voice;
7/31/2003; accessed at www.villagevoice.com/issues/0332/mondo4.php
.)
19.
“ ‘In March
2000, the [Intelligence Community] obtained information regarding the types of
targets that operatives of Bin Laden’s network might strike. The Statue of
Liberty was specifically mentioned, as were skyscrapers, ports, airports and
nuclear power plants’ . . . We don’t know because Bush has invoked executive privilege
to withhold from Congress this key briefing on August 6, 2001. We do know that
despite years of warnings from the intelligence community, the government
apparently had taken no steps to protect the eastern seaboard or any other
American border from attack.” (Idem.)
20.
Perhaps the most revealing of the Bush administration’s attempts at
playing “I’ve Got a Secret” is its refusal to allow information about the
funding sources of Al Qaeda into the public domain. It is the information
uncovered as a result of “Operation Green Quest” that connects the milieux of
Al Taqwa, Al Qaeda, the GOP and elements of the Underground Reich. (For more
about this, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
356, 357, 359, 357, 377, 378, 382, 415, 416, 417.) “The Treasury Department rejected a request
from senators Tuesday and refused to release a classified list of Saudi
individuals or organizations suspected of financing terrorist groups. A
Treasury spokesman, Rob Nichols, said a department official misspoke when he
told senators last week the list was unclassified, which would mean it was not
restricted information. ‘The last thing we want to do is tip off terrorists
that we are on to them,’ Nichols said. ‘We don’t want to disrupt ongoing
investigations, covert actions or potential law enforcement actions.’” (“Gov’t
Won’t Release Terror Financing List’ by Ken Guggenheim [AP]; p. 1; accessed at www.yahoo.com
.)
21.
“Administration
attorneys are reviewing the degree to which the classified information can be
provided or shared with Congress in closed session, said a government official,
speaking on condition of anonymity. The refusal to release the list marks the
second time in two weeks that the Bush administration has rejected requests by
senators to declassify information about Saudi ties to terrorists.’” (Idem.)
22.
Further underscoring the Al Taqwa/Al Qaeda link discussed above, a
recent deposition by a former FBI agent connects Youssef Nada and Ali Galeb
Himmat (of Al Taqwa) with alleged funding of terrorists, including Al Qaeda. “A group of
Saudi-backed Islamic charities operating in the US gave material support to
terrorists linked with al-Qaeda and Hamas, the US government has alleged for
the first time. The allegations concerning the Muslim World League and an
affiliate, the International Islamic Relief Organization, are likely to
reignite concerns about Saudi Arabia’s possible role in funding terrorist
organizations. The two charities are at the center of the largest-ever US
investigation of terrorist financing. According to an affidavit made public
this week, the charities gave money to BMI, a New Jersey-based company
suspected of transferring funds to three individuals designated terrorists by
the US government. . .” (“Saudi-backed Charities ‘Aided terrorists’’’
by Marianne Brun-Rovet and Edward Alden; The
Financial Times; 8/21/2003; p. 2.)
23.
“ . . . The
money invested in BMI by the two charities came from a $10m endowment from
unnamed Saudi donors, according to the affidavit by David Kane, an agent with
the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. While it is not clear
whether that money came from the Saudi government, the affidavit quotes a
recent CIA report that says the Muslim World League ‘is largely financed by the
government of Saudi Arabia.’ Mr. Kane said that the charities gave $3.7m to
BMI, which may have passed the money to individuals considered terrorists by
the U.S. They include Yassin Qadi accused by the US government of transferring
millions of dollars to Osama bin Laden through charities such as the Muwafaq
Foundation; Mousa Abu Marzook, the self-professed head of the political branch
of Hamas, the radical Palestinian organization; and Mohammad Salah, a member of
Hamas who spent five years in an Israeli prison. . . .” (Idem.)
24.
“The allegations
against BMI were made to back up charges against Soliman Biheiri, BMI’s founder
and president, who was indicted two weeks ago on charges of lying to obtain US
citizenship. The government alleges that Mr. Biheiri also did business with
other designated terrorists. Mr. Biheiri’s laptop computer contained contact
information for Ghaleb Himmat and Youssef Nada, members of the Muslim
Brotherhood extremist group and people considered terrorists by the US and the
United Nations.” (Idem.)
25.
This description features important supplemental information from an
article in The Wall Street Journal
that came out after the broadcast was recorded. Further cementing the
allegations concerning Abdullah bin Laden and the milieux of Al Taqwa and Al
Qaeda, the article sets forth apparent connections between Mr. Biheiri and
these same interests. “ . . . Prosecutors identified a third BMI investor as
Abdullah Awad bin Laden, who BMI partnership records and bank statements show
put in more than $500,000.00. He is a nephew of Osama bin Laden, head of al
Qaeda and the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. During
the 1990’s, Abdullah Awad bin Laden ran the U.S. branch of a Saudi charity
called the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
and private analysts labeled it a suspected terrorist organization; the group
says it doesn’t support terrorism . . . Abdullah Awad bin Laden, who formerly
lived in Virginia but left the U.S., after Sept. 11, 2001, has made no public
statements and couldn’t be located. U.S. officials believe he is in Saudi
Arabia.” (“U.S. Details an Alleged Terror-Financing Web” by Glenn R.
Simpson; Wall Street Journal;
9/15/2003; p. A5.)
26.
“ . . . Mr. Kane
said Mr. Biheiri has relationships with the two founders of the now-banned
al-Taqwa, both of whom are also officially listed as terrorists by the U.S. He
added that there are other ‘indications there were some connections between
Bank al-Taqwa and BMI,’ including ‘financial transactions.’ He was halted from
saying anything further on the matter by the prosecutor, who said the
information is classified foreign intelligence. Another of Mr. Biheiri’s
associates, the government alleged, is Sami Al-Arian the Tampa college
professor now under indictment in federal court in Florida as an alleged leader
of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which competes with Hamas to kill Israeli
civilians in suicide bombings. . . .” (Idem.)
27.
Among the figures implicated in the web of intrigues discussed above is
Yaqub Mirza. (For more about Mirza, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 356, 357, 382.) “ . . . Rounding
out their evidence, prosecutors disclosed an e-mail they obtained showing that
Mr. Biheiri was involved in Mr. Qadi’s financial dealings with Yaqub Mirza, a
Pakistani engineer who manages a group of Saudi-backed Islamic charities that
are also under investigation for supporting terrorism, according to a federal
search warrant. The e-mail was taken from Mr. Mirza’s computer in the search.
They said that one of the top figures in the SAAR network, Ahmed Totonji, is a
senior leader of the Muslim charity that Abdullah bin Laden helped run.” (Idem.)
28.
Supplementing information presented in FTR#’s 413, 417, the broadcast sets forth documentation of an
alleged scheme on the part of Al Taqwa to launder assets seized by Saddam
Hussein after his invasion of Kuwait. “ . . . Estimates of Hussein’s hidden wealth range from
several billion dollars to $40 billion, and the Bush administration fears that
the money could finance not only resistance to the U.S. occupation of Iraq but
terrorist activities. Most of Hussein’s fortune came from came kickbacks on oil
sales and smuggled cigarettes and other luxury goods, financial sleuths say.
According to the General Accounting office, the deposed dictator skimmed more
than $6.6 billion from the U.N.-sponsored oil-for-food program. . .” (“Saddam
Hussein Can Tap Billions in Dollars, Gold, Diamonds” by Jay Bushinsky; San Francisco Chronicle; 8/16/2003; p.
A7.)
29.
“ . . . Paolo
Fusi, an Italian reporter who began investigating Hussein’s money trail after
Sept. 11 and is the author of ‘Saddam’s Cashier,’ says the ousted leader
patterned his overseas empire after his political mentor—Egypt’s late President
Gamal Abdel Nasser. ‘(Hussein) became an admirer of the Egyptian regime and its
leader’s methods,’ said Fusi . . . Fusi began his inquiry in Geneva by
interviewing Arab bankers, who led him to Hussein’s financial agents. Fusi also
developed close ties with Italian judges, financial police and a Swiss-Italian
attorney named Gianluca Boscaro, who reportedly secured evidence of how Hussein
hid money around the world after being hired by the family of a man the
dictator executed for skimming profits from the network. . . .” (Idem.)
30.
“ . . .
According to the Sunday Times of
London, hundreds of documents show that Hussein held bank accounts at the
Bahamas branch of Switzerland’s Banca del Gottardo and channeled millions of
dollars to them from arms deals and construction contracts. . . . But Elio
Borrodori, the subject of Fusi’s book, who served as a company trustee for
Hussein in Liechtenstein and Switzerland for more than a decade, told reporters
in April that he funneled millions in ‘commissions’ and ‘consultancy fees’ into
a Banca del Gottardo account in Nassau codenamed Satan and controlled by a
Hussein nephew named Saad al-Mahdi, based in Milan.” (Idem.)
31.
“Ernst Backes,
an international banking expert in Luxembourg, says the network remained active
after U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq at the end of the Gulf War in 1991,
reaching a financial peak of $31 billion annually. Fusi says an Italian
government report showed one of the network’s boldest exploits—the laundering
of millions of Iraqi and Kuwaiti dinars, the latter plundered by Iraqi troops
during the Gulf War.” (Idem.)
32.
“ ‘The money was
packed into suitcases that were transported by truck from Slovenia to Zurich,
where a fair exchange in gold and diamonds was guaranteed by Youssef Nada of al
Taqwa Bank,’ Fusi said. (Al Taqwa Bank was included in President Bush’s list of
al Qaeda money suppliers.) ‘The neatly packed bills then wee shipped to Lebanon
and Syria, after which they disappeared . . .” (Idem.)
33.
A very revealing article from USA
Today highlights high-tech assets sold to Saddam by US corporations. The
phrasing “our common enemy” in reference to the United States is more than a
little revealing under the circumstances. One of the possibilities that must be
seriously entertained under the circumstances is a Bormann/Underground Reich
role in these transactions. “U.S. investigators examining bank and government records
here say they have unearthed evidence that high-tech hardware manufactured by
at least 30 U.S. companies was sold to Iraq in violation of United Nations
sanctions and U.S. customs regulations. Officials are trying to determine
whether any of those companies knowingly violated the sanctions and U.S.
Customs laws – or unwittingly sold the goods, including computers, laboratory
equipment and aircraft parts, to third parties who then dealt with Saddam
Hussein’s regime. Investigators declined to name the U.S. companies. . . . Customs agents say they have uncovered
correspondence from companies in Germany and South Korea that referred to the
United States as ‘our common enemy’ in apparent efforts to ingratiate
themselves with Iraq. [Italics are Mr. Emory’s].” (“Records Show
Iraq Was Buying Forbidden U.S. High-Tech Goods” by Donna Leinwand and Jim
Michaels; USA Today; 8/29-9/1/2003;
p. 1A.)
34.
For those benighted souls still pretending to themselves that there is
no difference between Al Gore and George Bush, consider that Al Gore met twice
with Saudi officials and threatened them with severe economic sanctions unless
they stopped funding terrorism. George Bush’s efforts in that regard have been
less than vigorous. “ . . . Mr. Newsom [Treasury Department official Rick
Newcomb] is expected to testify that former Vice President Al Gore arranged two
meetings with Saudi officials in 1999 and 2000, and threatened Saudi Arabia
with severe sanctions if they did not staunch the flow of terrorist money from
the country. . . .” (“Links of Saudis to Charities Come Under Senate
Review’ by Timothy L. O’Brien with Don Van Natta Jr.; The New York Times; 7/31/2003; p. 1; accessed at www.nytimes.com
.)