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“We built a model of it”
: John McLaughlin, interview by author, December 7, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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“on the current path”
: Graham Allison,
Nuclear Terrorism: the Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
(New York: Times Books, 2004), p. 15.

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issued a report in December 2008
: Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. (New York: Vintage Books, 2008).
http://www.preventwmd.gov/report/
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Joe Biden was briefed
: Change.gov, Vice President-elect Joe Biden to be briefed on prevention of WMD and terrorism.
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/vice_president_elect
_joe_biden_to_be_briefed_on_prevention_of_wmd_and_terro/
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The total of all the known thefts of HEU
: IAEA Combating Trafficking op. cit., pp. 129–130.
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1309_web.pdf
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are not about to hand over
: Brian Michael Jenkins,
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008), p. 143.

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distinctive signatures
: Daniel Chivers and Jonathan Snider, “International nuclear forensics regime,” Security for a New Century Study Group Report, February 2, 2007.

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$100 million
: Thom Shanker and David Sanger, “Pakistan is rapidly adding nuclear arms, U.S. says,”
New York Times
, May 17, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/world/asia/18nuke.html
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Defense has assessed
: Department of Defense, “Proliferation Threat and Response,” January 2001.
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/ptr20010110.pdf
, p. 27.

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stored unassembled
: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Nuclear weapons status 2005,”
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/images/npp/nuke.jpg
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one layer of protection
: Paul Kerr and Mary Beth Nikitin, “Pakistan’s nuclear weapons: proliferation and security issues,” Congressional Research Service, June 12, 2009.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34248.pdf
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PAL
: Kerr and Nikitin op. cit; Peter Crail, “Pakistan nuclear stocks safe, officials say,”
Arms Control Today
, June 2009,
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_6/Pakistan
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“important steps”
: Michael Maples, U.S. Senate. Armed Services Committee. The current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States. March 10, 2009.

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“a high probability”
:
Hardball with Chris Matthews
, MSNBC, February 5, 2009.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29034366/
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After obtaining his PhD in Belgium; traveled to Holland; made centrifuges suitable; steal the blueprints
: Michael Laufer, “A.Q. Khan nuclear chronology,” Proliferation Review, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=17420
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placed under house arrest
: Victoria Schofield and David Wastell, “Scientist who sold nuclear secrets ‘can keep his money,’”
Sunday Telegraph
, February 8, 2004.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/
asia/pakistan/1453785/Scientist-who-sold-atomic-secrets
-can-keep-his-money.html
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Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
: Gordon Corera,
Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the AQ Khan Network
(London: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 29 and generally pp. 9–30.

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“Although we have”
: National Intelligence Council, National Intelligence Assessment, “The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland,” July 2007.
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf
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“had a lot of girl friends”
: This section draws on Peter Bergen, “The Front,”
The New Republic
, October 19, 2009.
http://www.tnr.com/article/world/the-front
. Also USA v. Najibullah Zazi, Eastern District of New York, Indictment.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/
case_docs/1063.pdf
; and Michael Wilson, “From smiling coffee vendor to terror suspect,”
New York Times
, September 25, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/nyregion/26profile.html
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three or four a day
: Anne Kornblut, “Obama team says Zazi case illustrates balanced approach to terror threat,”
Washington Post
, October 6, 2009.
http://www.washing-tonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503989.html
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“subway lines in Manhattan”
: John Marzulli, “Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty to plotting NYC terror attack, supporting al Qaeda,”
New York Daily News
, February 22, 2010.

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pages of handwritten notes
: USA v. Najibullah Zazi, Eastern District of New York, 09-CR-663 Memorandum of law in support of the government’s motion for a permanent order of detention (Via IntelWire).

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traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas
: USA vs Bryant Neal Vinas, Eastern District Court of New York 08-CR-823.
http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/2009-07-22-Bryant-Neal-Vinas-Court-Docs.pdf
. He pled guilty on January 28, 2009 to the charges against him.

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Long Island Rail Road
: William K. Rashbaum and Souad Mekhennet, “L.I. man helped al-Qaeda, then informed,”
New York Times
, July 22, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/nyregion/23terror.html

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Californian convert
: USA v. Adam Gadahn, Central District Court of California, SA CR 05-254 A Superseding Indictment.

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charged with treason
: Raffi Khatchadourian, “Azzam the American,”
New Yorker
, January 22, 2007.

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David Headley
: Headley information comes from United States vs. David C. Headley, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint.
http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/headley%20complaint.pdf_20091027_09_57_00_15.imageContent
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cartoons as a “catastrophe”
: Inal Ersan, “Bin Laden warns EU over Prophet cartoons,” Reuters, March 20, 2008,
http://www.reuters.com/article/idusN19338241200803201
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killing six
: Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah, “Blast near Danish embassy in Pakistan kills six,”
New York Times
, June 2, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/world/asia/02iht-pakistan.2.13391102.html
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key role in LeT’s massacre in Mumbai
: USA v. David Coleman Headley U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division Case No. 09 CR 830.

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some three dozen American citizens or residents
: New York University Center on Law and Security 2009 op. cit.

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formally pledged allegiance
: “Somalia’s Shabab proclaim allegiance to bin Laden,” Agence France Press, September 22, 2009.

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his own imprimatur
: Osama bin Laden tape, translated by NEFA Foundation, March 19, 2009.
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/
nefaubl0309-2.pdf

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some measure of stability
: “Islamist Control of Mogadishu Raises Concern of Extremist Future for Somalia,” June 8, 2006.

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Ahmed drove a truck
: Spencer Hsu and Carrie Johnson, “Somali Americans recruited by extremists,”
Washington Post
, March 11, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031003901.html
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matched Ahmed’s finger
: USA vs Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, Abdeiweli Yassin Isse, criminal complaint filed October 8, 2009 in U.S. District Court Minnesota.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/U.S./
20091124_TERROR_DOCS/faarax.pdf
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The FBI suspected
: “FBI investigating Seattleite in suicide bombing,” Associated Press, September 25, 2009.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33025395/ns/world_news-terrorism/
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“How dare you”
: NEFA Foundation, transcript of al Shabab video from Abu Mansoor al Amiriki, “A response to Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo,” July 9, 2009;
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/
FeaturedDocs/nefa_abumansoor0709.pdf
;: Andrea Elliott, “The jihadist next door,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 31, 2010.

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six other Somali-Americans
: Spencer Hsu, “Concern grows over recruitment of Somali Americans by Islamists,”
Washington Post
, October 4, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100302901.html
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outside an Army barracks
: Emma Brockes, “British man named as bomber who killed 10,”
The Guardian
, December 28, 2000.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/dec/28/india.kashmir
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not be much of a concern
: Peter Bergen, “The terrorists among us,”
ForeignPolicy.com
, November 19, 2009.

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American-born cleric
: “Sudarsan Raghavan, “Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan,”
Washington Post
, November 16, 2009.

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“was asking for an edict”
: Anwar al-Awlaki, interview by Abdelela Haidar Shayie, AlJazeera.net, December 23, 2009. Translation by Middle East Media Research Institute,
http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/report.htm?report=3859%26param=GJN
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strippers
: Joseph Rhee, “Accused Fort Hood shooter was a regular at shooting range, strip club,” ABC News, November 16, 2009.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/accused-fort-hood-shooter-nidal-hasan-visited-strip/story?id=9090116
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filmed at a convenience store
: Maria Newman and Michael Brick, “Neighbor says Hasan gave belongings away before attack,”
New York Times
, November 7, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/U.S./07suspect.html
; “the color white”: David Cook,
Martyrdom in Islam
(Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 117.

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“I am going to do God’s work”
: Scott Shane and James Dao, “Investigators study tangle of clues on Fort Hood suspect,” New York Times, November 14, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/U.S./15hasan.html
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shouted at the top of his lungs
: Sanjay Gupta on Anderson Cooper 360, interview with Logan Burnette, November 11, 2009.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/
0911/11/acd.01.html
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U.S. military recruiting station
: District Court of Little Rock, Arkansas, County of Pulaski, Affidavit for Search and Seizure Warrant.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/
case_docs/988.pdf
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According to federal prosecutors
: USA v Daniel Patrick Boyd et al Indictment in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, filed 7/22/09
http://www.investigativeproject.org/
documents/case_docs/1029.pdf
; and the superseding indictment in the same case dated September 24, 2009.
http://www.investigativeproject.org
/documents/case_docs/1075.pdf
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told a government informant
: NEFA Foundation report, “Fort Dix Plot,” January 2008.
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/
fortdixplot.pdf
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an array of automatic weapons
: USA vs Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka, Serdar Tatar U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, Criminal No 07-459.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/
case_docs/564.pdf
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“exactly what we are looking for”
: USA vs Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer Criminal Complaint U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey filed May 7, 2007, p. 11.

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“Al-Qaeda in California”
: USA vs Kevin James et al U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Case No. CR 05-214-CJC and exhibits.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/
documents/case_docs/1089.pdf
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James’s crew planned
: USA vs Kevin James et al op. cit.

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at least twenty
: New York University Center on Law and Security 2009 op. cit., and New American Foundation dataset on domestic jihadist terrorism cases, publication forthcoming.

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“Homegrown terrorists”
: “U.S. fears home-grown terror threat,” BBC News, June 24, 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
5112354.stm
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smoked a great deal of weed
: Abby Goodnough, “Trial starts for men in plot to destroy Sears Tower,”
New York Times
, October 3, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/U.S./
nationalspecial3/03liberty.html
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A government informant
: Abby Goodnough, “Trial starts for men in plot to destroy Sears Tower,”
New York Times
, October 3, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/U.S./
nationalspecial3/03liberty.html
; “three times”: “5 convicted in Liberty City terror trial,” CNN.com, May 12, 2009.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/12/liberty.s
even/index.html
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largely ghettoized
: Abdirahman Mukhtar, testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, March 11, 2009.
http://hsgac.senate.gov/
/files/22/64/19/f226419/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_
id=c762508c-3694-4894-808a-229fafb1d8d9
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