1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI--the Untold Story
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For most Americans the true origin of the 9/11 attacks remains a mystery. But as the two jetliners hit the Twin Towers, three strangers knew exactly what had happened. FBI agent Nancy Floyd, FDNY fire marshal Ronnie Bucca, and Ramzi Yousef, the bomb-making terrorist an American judge once called "an apostle of evil," had been on a collision course for years—soldiers on opposing sides of a terror war raging since the late 1980s.Now, in 1000 Years for Revenge -- a groundbreaking investigative work that reads like an international thriller -- award-winning journalist Peter Lance reveals how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989. Drawing on interviews with scores of central figures in the story, as well as hundreds of pages of declassified documents, Lance uncovers startling evidence of FBI negligence that even a joint congressional committee missed. Among his revelations:From the early 1990s, Osama bin Laden was running an active al Qaeda terror cell in New York City -- with blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman as its leader and Ramzi Yousef as its master bomb maker. The FBI had sufficient intelligence to capture Yousef before he built the first World Trade Center bomb in 1993. In 1995, they learned that he had already set the 9/11 suicide-hijacking plot in motion from Manila -- that he was planning "to return to the U.S. to attack the World Trade Center a second time." Yet each time the FBI missed the opportunity to stop him.FBI agent Nancy Floyd used a key informant to penetrate the cell of Sheikh Rahman -- only to have the operation sandbagged by her FBI supervisor.Most alarming, in 1992, a confidant of Sheikh Rahman removed the plans for the World Trade Center from FDNY headquarters. Ronnie Bucca brought the information to the FBI in 1999 but he was ignored.This is a story of heroes: Nancy Floyd, who tried to bring down the New York terror cell but paid for her efforts with damage to her career, and Ronnie Bucca, who tried to alert the FBI to the security threat to New York City from al Qaeda but paid for the agency's negligence with his life on 9/11. It is also a story of the power of evil: Lance offers a chilling chronicle of how one man -- the elusive mastermind Yousef -- managed to defeat the entire American security system in what Lance calls "the greatest failure of intelligence since the Trojan Horse."An unparalleled work of investigative reporting and masterful storytelling, 1000 Years for Revenge will change forever the way we look at the FBI and the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century. Washington Post Book World “Compelling and briskly told. . .Quite convincing. . .[Lance] breaks ground.”
A Note to ReadersxiIntroduction1Part I1.Black Tuesday92.The Flying Firefighter153.Blowback224.The First Shots Fired295.Al Qaeda's New York Cell386.Operation Iraqi Freedom One477.A Nest of Vipers538.Blood in the City649.Truth from the Ashes7210.Ice Water and Bombs8011.A Very Dangerous Job9512.Dot after Dot after Dot10513.The Black Bottomless Pit116Part II14.The Fifth Battalion12715.The Ryder Sideshow13816.The $1.5 Million Man15017.The Bootleg Tapes16018.Into the Abyss17419.The Hunt for Rashed18720.Prepping for the "Big Noise"19821.The Western Front20922.The Temptress and the Spy22123.Delivering the "Chocolates"23124.How Many More Fires?24525.The Third Plot25326.Miracles from God262Part III27.Truth from a Value Meal27328.Brad Smith's Biggest "Get"28329.A Chilling Warning29430.John Doe No. 230831.The Devil Himself31932.The Bomb Maker and the Made Guy33333.Shut It Down34134.Ingenious, Diabolical, and Ruthless34935.Reconnaissance35736.The Drums Get Louder37037.An Egyptian Mole in the FDNY?38138.The Lost Chance in Malaysia39539."Someday Someone Will Die"40840.The Black Hole42141.Operation Iraqi Freedom Two431Epilogue448A Note on Sources453Notes457Appendix IFBI 302 Re: Interrogation of Abdul Hakim Murad, May 11, 1995499Appendix IIMemo to Orrin G. Hatch Re: Investigation into Terrorism, December 5, 1995519Index523
