The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11
- ISBN-10
- 0713999764
- ISBN-13
- 9780713999761
- Series
- The Looming Tower
- Category
- Intelligence service
- Pages
- 469
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Lawrence Wright
Description
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of al-Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. There is the tormented Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, whose writings on the godlessness of America turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists. There is Ayman al-Zawahiri- a devout student who, by the age of fifteen, had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell. There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden- Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander, whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition. And there is the FBI's counterterorism chief, the flamboyant, cigar-smoking John O'Neill, who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored, and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers.
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