| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
469 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-438) and index. |
| Indexed In: |
Library Journal, July 2006 |
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Booklist starred, August 2006 |
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Pub Weekly, June 2006 |
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Kirkus Starred, June 2006 |
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New York Times, August 2006 |
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Reference and Research Book News, November 2006 |
| Contents |
The martyr -- The sporting club -- The founder -- Change -- The miracles -- The base -- Return of the hero -- Paradise -- The Silicon Valley -- Paradise lost -- The prince of darkness -- The boy spies -- Hijira -- Going operational -- Bread and water -- "Now it begins" -- The new millennium -- Boom -- The big wedding -- Revelations. |
| Summary |
Lawrence Wright's 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 al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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Qaida (Organization)
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Terrorism -- Government policy.
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Intelligence service.
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Qaida (Organization)
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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Terrorism -- Government policy.
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Intelligence service.
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| ISBN |
037541486X |
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9780375414862 |
| Standard No. |
IG# 037541486X |
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YDXCP 2418005 |
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NLGGC 293172595 |
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NZ1 10723152 |
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