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ORF Occasional PaperEndnotes:1. Jason Burke, Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, London: PenguinBooks, 2004.2. Christina Hellmich, Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise,London: Zed Books, 2011.3. Haqqani heads the Haqqani Network, a terrorist group operating inPakistan's tribal areas closely aligned to al Qaeda and the Taliban. TheNetwork reportedly enjoys the patronage of Pakistan Army.4. Sayyaf was a senior Mujahideen commander who later on became aparliamentarian. He was one of the presidential candidates in the April2014 elections. Sayyaf was known to be close to Osama bin Laden.5. Jason Burke, see n.1.6. The complete 9/11 Commission Report can be accessed athttp://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf.7. The full text of the fatwa can be found at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm.8. “Foreign fighters are spilling into Afghanistan, helping the Taliban,” TheWashington Post, April 14, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/foreign-fighters-are-spilling-into-afghanistanhelping-the-taliban/2015/04/14/91ee9378-748f-404e-996acb651d0307b4_story.html.9. Thomas Joscelyn, “Osama bin Laden's Files: The Pakistani governmentwanted to negotiate,” The Long War Journal, March 9, 2015,http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/osama-binladens-files-the-pakistani-government-wanted-to-negotiate.php;“Letters From Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?,” Combating TerrorismCenter, May 3, 2012, https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/ letters-fromabbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined.10. Zachary Laub, “Backgrounder: Al Qaeda in Iraq,” Council on ForeignRelations, January 9, 2014,http://www.cfr.org/iraq/al-qaeda-iraq-kislamic-state-iraq-greater-syria/p14811.11. Martin Rudner, “Al Qaeda's Twenty-Year Strategic Plan: The CurrentPhase of Global Terror,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 36, 2013.42www.orfonline.org