Several years ago, Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne noticed that deep-pocketed financial scammers were attacking his company's stock value using a short-selling fraud. Byrne hired Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Mitchell to investigate, and Mitchell came back with an astounding report: The former BCCI network, organized by Osama bin Laden, was using its massive resources for a "financial jihad" against the United States.

• Chapter 1: Was the United States Attacked by “Financial Terrorists”?
• Chapter 2: The “Money Weapon” and The Jihad Bigger than Bin Laden
• Chapter 3: The BCCI Enterprise and The Financial Jihad
• Chapter 4: The BCCI Enterprise: Prelude to Our Present Predicament
• Chapter 5: Monzer al-Kassar, Model Citizen
• Chapter 6: An Oligarchic-Organized Crime and Terrorism Syndicate (and Some Stock Promoters)
• Chapter 7: Michael Milken and the “Insider Trading” Network (as of 2013)
• Chapter 8: Boris Berezovsky and the “Nexus” Between Organized Crime, Terrorism, and the Global Oligarchy

This has received no mainstream media coverage, other than to call Byrne a kook. Some of the reports were knocked offline by lawsuits after Mitchell and Byrne were unable to substantiate them, so they probably contain errors but they remain the best available reports on this financial network.

As Overstock stopped getting good press and fell into obscurity, its competitor Amazon became the largest company in the world. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post, one of America's two most influential newspapers. The Washington Post began to run columns from Jamal Khashoggi, a long-time friend of Osama bin Laden.