He is quoted by Richard Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003). Miniter also noted, "Never once in his two-year tenure did CIA director James Woolsey ever have a one-on-one meeting with Clinton. Even semiprivate meetings were rare. They only happened twice." Woolsey was also described in Jim Geraghty’s Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 99-in reference to a joke at the time-as the pilot of the plane that crashed onto the White House lawn in 1994, making one last desperate attempt to get an appointment to see President Clinton.
2.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair on MSNBC, December 3, 2008.
3.
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century ( New York: Penguin, 2008).
4.
S. K. Malik, The Quranic Concept of War (Lahore, Pakistan: Wajidalis, 1979), quoted in Yossef Bodansky, Bin Laden (Roosevelt, CA: Prima, 1999), xv.
5.
Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (New York: Free Press, 2006).
6.
William Simpson, The Prince: The Secret Story of the World’s Most Intriguing Royal (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 310.