by mike Evans
CHAPTER SIX: THE WORLD WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
1. Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.
2. Associated Press, “Al-Qaida in Iraq: 4,000 Foreign Fighters Killed: Attacked Urged During Ramadan in Tape Purportedly From Group’s Leader,” MSNBC.com, September 28, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15044435/ (accessed December 1, 2006).
3. Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War, 9.
4. Con Coughlin, “Saddam Killed Abu Nidal Over al-Qa’eda Row,” Telegraph (UK), online version, August 25, 2002, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/25/wnidal25.xml (accessed January 26, 2007); also, see Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War, 14–15.
5. Michael R. Gordon, “After the War: Falluja; U.S. Troops Put on a Show of Military Force in a Center of Hard-Core Resistance,” New York Times, June 8, 2003, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res= F30A13FB3F5D0C7B8CDDAF0894DB404482 (accessed December 12, 2006).
6. Ellen Knickmeyer and Omar Fekeiki, “Iraqi Shiite Cleric Pledges to Defend Iran: Sadr, With Powerful Militia, Vows to Respond to Attack by West on Neighbor,” WashingtonPost.com, January 24, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301701.html (accessed January 26, 2007); GlobalSecurity.org, “Al-Mahdi Army/Active Religious Seminary/Al-Sadr’s Group,” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-Sadr.htm (accessed January 26, 2007); GlobalSecurity.org, “Muqtada al-Sadr,” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-Sadr.htm (accessed January 26, 2007); and Bryan Bender, “US Believes Iran Is Aiding Iraqi Militias,” Boston Globe, April 9, 2004, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/09/us_believes_iran_is_aiding_iraqi_militias/ (accessed January 26, 2007).
7. Charles Nash, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix F.
8. Jane Arraf, “Iraq Insurgents’ Bombmaking Gets More Lethal,” NBC News, December 8, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16110075/ (accessed December 12, 2006).
9. James Woolsey, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix D.
10. Liz Neisloss and Matthew Chance, “UN: Sanctions Loom, Iran Keeps Enriching,” CNN.com, August 31, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/31/iran.deadline/index.html (accessed November 1, 2006).
11. Nasser Karimi, “Ahmadinejad: Iran’s Nuke Capability Up,” Breitbart.com, October 23, 2006, http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/23/D8KUD2EG2.html (accessed November 1, 2006).
12. Nasser Karimi, “Iran Doubles Nuke Enrichment Capacity,” ABC News International, October 27, 2006, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear (accessed November 2, 2006).
13. BBCNews.com, “Bush Condemns Iran Nuclear Move,” October 27, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6092540.stm (accessed November 2, 2006).
14. Ehud Olmert, interview on CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, May 21, 2006, online transcript, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/21/le.01.html (accessed December 17, 2006).
15. BBCNews.com, “Iran Bomb ‘Within Next 10 Years,’” June 2, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5039956.stm (accessed November 2, 2006).
16. Wikipedia.org, s.v. “1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut_barracks_bombing (accessed November 12, 2006).
17. Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.
18. Walid Shoebat, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 26, 2006.
19. Hyscience.com, “Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi,” May 5, 2005, http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/05/ahmadinejad_and.php (accessed December 14, 2006).
20. Moshe Ya’alon, personal interview with Mike Evans, June 2006.
CHAPTER SEVEN: FUMBLING OUR ALLY, IRAN
1. Gerald Warner, “High Time for Dubya to Take Hard Line With the Nuclear Mullahs,” Scotland on Sunday, June 19, 2005, http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=674332005 (accessed January 24, 2007).
2. Gary Sick, All Fall Down (Lincoln, NE: Author’s Guild, 2001), 193–194.
3. University of Tehran Web site, “UT Overview,” http://www.ut.c.ir/en/main-links/overview.htm (accessed December 8, 2006).
4. John Dumbrell, The Carter Presidency: A Re-evaluation (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1993), 181.
5. Asadollah Alam, The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran’s Royal Court 1969–1977 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 500.
6. Cyrus Vance, Hard Choices: Critical Years in America’s Foreign Policy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 318.
7. James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion (New Haven: University Press, 1988), 233.
8. Amir Taheri, The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (Bethesda, MD: Adler and Adler, 1985), 194, 197, 199–200.
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE RISE OF ISLAMOFASCISM
1. Raymond Tanter, personal interview with Mike Evans, June 15, 2006.
2. Irwin Cotler, personal interview with Mike Evans, September 28, 2006.
3. Sick, All Fall Down, 193–194.
4. Ofira Seliktar, Failing the Crystal Ball Test (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000), 133.
5. Robert E. Huyser, Mission to Tehran (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 17.
6. Michael D. Evans, Showdown With Nuclear Iran (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), 3–4.
7. Huyser, Mission to Tehran, 292.
8. Ibid., 294.
9. Ibid., 293, 296.
10. George Shadroui, “America’s Security: The Genesis of a Problem,” IntellectualConservative.com, April 26, 2005, http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4303.html (accessed December 10, 2006).
11. Baqer Moin, Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000), 204.
12. Ibid., 206.
13. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Answer to History (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), 12.
14. Amir Taheri, The Cauldron: The Middle East Behind the Headlines (London: Hutchinson, 1988), 192.
15. Wikipedia.org, s.v. “Iranian Hostage Crisis,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis (accessed December 10, 2006).
16. Amir Taheri, Holy Terror (London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1987), 196.
17. Chuck Morse, “Carter Sold Out Iran 1977–1978,” IranianVoice.org, http://www.iranianvoice.org/article774.html (accessed December 10, 2006).
18. Sick, All Fall Down, 377.
19. Ibid., 397–398.
20. PBS.org, “People & Events: The Iranian Hostage Crisis, November 1979–January 1981,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/e_hostage.html (accessed December 10, 2006).
21. Cormac O’Brian, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2004), 238.
22. Michael Foust, “Mohler: Carter Has Been Estranged From SBC Mainstream for Decades,” Baptist 2 Baptist, October 30, 2000, www.baptist2baptist.net/b2barticle.asp?ID=185 (accessed December 10, 2006).
23. Ned Rice, “Jimmy of Mayberry: A Brutal Contrast,” National Review Online, April 14, 2005, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGJlZTk5MWI3MmMwYTI2ZGMwNjFiNzkwZGZiNjhhMjY= (accessed December 10, 2006).
24. Steven F. Hayward, The Real Jimmy Carter (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), 107.
25. J. A. Rosati, The Carter Administration’s Quest for Global Community: Beliefs and Their Impact on Behavior (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987), 42.
26. Steven Hayward, interview by Jamie Glazov, “The Worst Ex-President,” FrontPageMagazine.com, May 6, 2004, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/printable.asp?ID=13265 (accessed December 10, 2006).
27. Wikiquote.org, s.v. “Theodore Roosevelt,” http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#.22Speak_softly_and_carry_a_big_stick.22_.281901.29 (accessed January 29, 2007).
28. Seliktar, Failing the Crystal Ball Test, 185.
29. J
immy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 63.
30. Lowell Ponte, “Carter’s Appease Prize,” FrontPageMagazine.com, October 16, 2002, http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3843 (accessed January 26, 2007).
31. Hayward, The Real Jimmy Carter, 208.
32. Ibid., 201–202.
33. Ben Johnson, “A Failed Former President,” FrontPageMagazine.com, November 18, 2005, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20232 (accessed December 11, 2006).
34. Joel Mowbray, “Jimmy Carter’s Election Fraud,” FrontPageMagazine.com, September 29, 2004, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15283 (accessed January 25, 2007).
35. Hayward, The Real Jimmy Carter, 224.
36. Alan M. Dershowitz, “The World According to Carter,” FrontPageMagazine.com, November 24, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25653 (accessed January 29, 2007).
37. FOX Facts, “Dr. Kenneth W. Stein’s Letter,” December 7, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235283,00.html (accessed January 24, 2007).
38. Taken from the private papers of Mike Evans.
39. Spiegel Online International, “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone,” August 15, 2006, http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,431793,00.html (accessed December 11, 2006).
40. Ann Coulter, Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003), 9, 13.
41. Ibid., 5–6.
42. Gordon Haff, “American Politics: 1960 to 1985,” in The Last Word, reproduced at http://home.comcast.net/~ghaff/lword/newpol.html (accessed December 11, 2006).
43. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., “Jimmy Carter Pens the Worst Book of 2005,” CNN.com, May 25, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/25/tyrrell.carter/index.html (accessed December 11, 2006).
44. Matthias Küntzel, “Ahmadinejad’s Demons,” The New Republic Online, April 24, 2006, http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060424&s= kuntzel042406 (accessed January 24, 2007).
CHAPTER NINE: THE NUCLEAR BOMB OF ISLAM
1. Osama bin Laden, “The Nuclear Bomb of Islam,” May 29, 1998, quoted in “Indictment: United States of America vs. Zacarias Moussaoui,” Overt Acts #11, The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, December 2001, as quoted by Jurist, “Terrorism Law and Policy,” University of Pittsburgh School of Law, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism/terrorismindict.htm (accessed December 11, 2006).
2. Raymond Tanter, personal interview with Mike Evans, June 15, 2006.
3. James Woolsey, personal interview with Mike Evans, September 2006.
4. Uzi Mahnaimi and Tony Allen-Mills, “Focus: Taking Aim at Iran,” Times Online, March 13, 2005, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,, 2089-1522800,00.html (accessed December 1, 2006).
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Hiroshima Witness, video produced by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK, as quoted by AtomicArchive.com, “Testimony of Takehiko Sakai,” http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hibakusha/Takehiko.shtml (accessed January 30, 2007).
8. Ibid., “Testimony of Yoshito Matsushige,” http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hibakusha/Yoshito.shtml (accessed January 30, 2007).
9. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Touchstone, 1988), 717–718.
10. Ibid., 718.
11. William L. Laurence, “Eye Witness Account: Atomic Bomb Mission Over Nagasaki,” from War Department press release, August 9, 1945, as quoted by AtomicArchive.com, “The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hiroshima/Nagasaki.shtml (accessed January 30, 2007).
12. Fujie Urata Matsumoto, as quoted in Takashi Nagai, We of Nagasaki: The Story of Survivors in an Atomic Wasteland (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1964), 43.
13. Hideko Tamura Friedman, “Hiroshima Memories,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 1995), 6–22.
14. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 742.
15. J. Robert Oppenheimer, “‘Now I Am Become Death…,’” AtomicArchive.com, http://www.atomicarchive.com/Movies/Movie8.shtml (accessed December 11, 2006).
16. McInerney and Vallely, Endgame, 30–31.
17. James Woolsey, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 31, 2006.
18. Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.
19. Benjamin Netanyahu, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix C.
20. “‘Why We Fight America’: Al Qa’ida Spokesman Explains September 11 and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Million Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction,” as quoted by the Middle East Media Research Institute, special dispatch, no. 388, June 12, 2002, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&area=sd&ID=SP38802 (accessed December 12, 2006).
21. Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism (New York: Times Books, 2004), 6.
22. Yossi Peled, personal interview with Mike Evans, July 22, 2006.
23. Raymond Tanter, personal interview with Mike Evans, June 15, 2006.
24. Walid Shoebat, personal interview with Mike Evans, September 26, 2006.
25. John R. Bolton, “Iran’s Continuing Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” testimony before the House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, June 24, 2004, http://www.state.gov/t/us/rm/33909.htm (accessed December 14, 2006).
26. GlobalSecurity.org, “Full text of President Ahmadinejad’s Speech at General Assembly,” Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Sept 17 2005, http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050918-irna02.htm (accessed September 20, 2005).
27. Irwin Cotler, personal interview with Mike Evans, September 28, 2006.
28. Associated Press, “Iran Hosts ‘The World Without Zionism,’” Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2005, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540603434&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (accessed November 1, 2006).
29. Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted from an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook by Bernard Lewis, reprinted by Mike Rosen, “Maniacs Mean Business,” Rocky Mountain News, August 25, 2005, http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4942689,00.html (accessed December 14, 2006).
30. Wikipedia.org, s.v. “Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Taghi_Mesbah_Yazdi (accessed December 14, 2006).
31. James Woolsey, personal interview with Mike Evans, September 2006.
32. Mike Evans and Robert Wise, The Jerusalem Scroll (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2005), 62–63. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
33. Yossef Bodansky, presentation notes given at conference and personal conversation with author.
34. Paul L. Williams, Osama’s Revenge (New York: Prometheus Books, 2004), 33.
35. Ibid., 41.
36. Benjamin Weiser, “U.S. Says Bin Laden Aide Tried to Get Nuclear Material,” New York Times, September 26, 1998, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20F13FC395D0C758EDDA00894D0494D81 (accessed November 10, 2004).
37. Williams, Osama’s Revenge, 41.
38. Scott Parish and John Lepingwell, “Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose? The Story Behind the Controversy,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, November 1997, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/lebedst.htm (accessed January 31, 2007).
39. Steve Kroft, host, “The Perfect Terrorist Weapon,” 60 Minutes, September 7, 1997, Burrel’s transcripts.
40. Dick Cheney, interview on Meet the Press, December 15, 1991, as quoted in Graham Allison, “Nuclear Terrorism: How Serious a Threat to Russia?” Russia in Global Affairs online edition, September/October 2004, viewed at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publication.cfm?program=CORE&ctype=article&item_id=1223#_ftn12 (accessed February 22, 2
007).
41. Yossef Bodansky, quoted in “Bin Laden Has 20 Nuclear Bombs,” WorldTribune.com, August 9, 1999, http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/x180.html (accessed January 31, 2007).
42. Hamid Mir, “If U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons, It Will Receive Same Response,” interview with Osama bin Laden, Dawn (Pakistan), November 10, 2001.
43. Kimberly McCloud and Matthew Osborne, “WMD Terrorism and Usama bin Laden,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, March 7, 2001, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm (accessed January 24, 2007).
44. DEBKAfile, “America’s War on Terror—Part III: Bin Laden May Have Small Nuclear Bombs,” October 13, 2001, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=319 (accessed January 24, 2007).
45. Peter Bergen, “Trees and Tapes May Hint at Bin Laden Location,” CNN.com, August 28, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/bergen.binladen/index.html (accessed January 31, 2007)
46. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, “Pakistan Plays Nuclear Footsie; Does Anyone Care?” Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2004, http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107300266639911800,00.html (accessed November 9, 2004).
47. Mohamed El Baradei, interview during the World Economic Forum, Davos, January 22, 2004.
48. Massimo Calabresi and Romesh Ratnesar, “Can We Stop the Next Attack?” TIME.com, March 11, 2002, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001961,00.html (accessed December 11, 2006).
49. David Johnston and James Risen, “Traces of Terrorism: The Intelligence Reports; Series of Warnings,” New York Times, May 17, 2002, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B14FA345D0C748DDDA C0894DA404482 (accessed November 9, 2004).
50. Andy Serwer, “The Oracle of Everything,” Fortune, November 11, 2002, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/11/331843/index.htm (accessed November 9, 2004).
CHAPTER TEN: THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA
1. Corruption Chronicles, “Congress Gets Muslim,” a Judicial Watch blog, November 8, 2006, http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2006/11/congress_gets_muslim.html (accessed November 10, 2006).
2. Mort Zuckerman, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 22, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix I.
