...d actually thought the operation too complicated for the CIA—“out of their league”—and an effort to get results “on the cheap. ” But a senior Joint St... ...achi and then to Afghanistan to renew contacts with Bin Ladin and his col- leagues.Though KSM may not have been a member of al Qaeda at this time, he ... ...” was aware of how dangerous Khallad was—at one point calling him a “major league killer.” He concluded that “something bad was definitely up.” Despit... ...e to travel outside Afghanistan, including to the United States where col- leagues were reportedly already in the country to meet them, to carry out t... ...cult.The combined gross domestic product of the 22 coun- tries in the Arab League is less than the GDP of Spain. Forty percent of adult Arabs are illi... ...ging jihad that he “would commit a ter- rorist act ‘in Mecca inside the Ka’aba itself ’ [the holiest site in Islam] if he believed there was a need to...