Title
The Looming Tower: Alqaeda And The Road To 9/11
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A Sweeping Narrative History Of The Events Leading To 9/11, A Groundbreaking Look At The People And Ideas, The Terrorist Plans And The Western Intelligence Failures That Culminated In The Assault On America. Lawrence Wrights Remarkable Book Is Based On Five Years Of Research And Hundreds Of Interviews That He Conducted In Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, And The United States.The Looming Tower Achieves An Unprecedented Level Of Intimacy And Insight By Telling The Story Through The Interweaving Lives Of Four Men: The Two Leaders Of Alqaeda, Osama Bin Laden And Ayman Alzawahiri; The Fbis Counterterrorism Chief, John Oneill; And The Former Head Of Saudi Intelligence, Prince Turki Alfaisal.As These Lives Unfold, We See Revealed: The Crosscurrents Of Modern Islam That Helped To Radicalize Zawahiri And Bin Laden . . . The Birth Of Alqaeda And Its Unsteady Development Into An Organization Capable Of The American Embassy Bombings In Kenya And Tanzania And The Attack On The Uss Cole . . . Oneills Heroic Efforts To Track Alqaeda Before 9/11, And His Tragic Death In The World Trade Towers . . . Prince Turkis Transformation From Bin Ladens Ally To His Enemy . . . The Failures Of The Fbi, Cia, And Nsa To Share Intelligence That Might Have Prevented The 9/11 Attacks.The Looming Tower Broadens And Deepens Our Knowledge Of These Signal Events By Taking Us Behind The Scenes. Here Is Sayyid Qutb, Founder Of The Modern Islamist Movement, Lonely And Despairing As He Meets Western Culture Up Close In 1940S America; The Privileged Childhoods Of Bin Laden And Zawahiri; Family Life In The Alqaeda Compounds Of Sudan And Afghanistan; Oneills Highwire Act In Balancing His Allconsuming Career With His Equally Entangling Personal Lifehe Was Living With Three Women, Each Of Them Unaware Of The Others Existenceand The Nittygritty Of Turf Battles Among U.S. Intelligence Agencies.Brilliantly Conceived And Written, The Looming Tower Draws All Elements Of The Story Into A Galvanizing Narrative That Adds Immeasurably To Our Understanding Of How We Arrived At September 11, 2001. The Richness Of Its New Information, And The Depth Of Its Perceptions, Can Help Us Deal More Wisely And Effectively With The Continuing Terrorist Threat.
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