The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
ISBN: | 9780713999761 |
Publisher: | Allen Lane |
Published: | 31 August, 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is 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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