Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker
“Michael Smerconish is perhaps the most intelligent, insightful and provocative public commentator on the current scene. He also has a great narrative style and displays all these glittering talents in Instinct. The little-known tale of Jose Melendez-Perez’ calm heroism has many important subtexts and vital lessons for our security. Smerconish illuminates them all. It is both important history and great motivational therapy.”\ —John F. Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy,\...
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The gripping story of courageous men and women who changed history - by stopping terrorists on American ground.All author proceeds will be donated to the Flight 93 National Memorial. Publishers Weekly At the center of this dramatic true story is Mohammed al Kahtani, allegedly meant to serve as the 20th 9/11 hijacker, whose denial of entry to the U.S. by an Orlando customs officer may have provided just the edge that the passengers of United Flight 93 needed to overpower their captors. The questions that surround him, however, are central to the execution of the war on terror: in particular, was Kahtani a "highly trained al-Qaeda operative" or a "low-level mercenary tortured by his interrogators out of frustration or pure malice?" From the political fallout of denying foreign visitors entry to the fine line between profiling and professionalism (says one interrogation expert, "that intuitiveness, that innate ability, that instinct... if you fine tune it, you have a very powerful person") to the disturbing procedures at Guantanamo Bay, radio talk show host Smerconish (Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism) presents the vivid narrative of United Flight 93 and the issues at hand with the skill of a seasoned reporter. Proceeds from the book support the Flight 93 National Memorial Campaign. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
An excerpt from Instinct\ Two thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three lives. The human toll of what the terrorists wreaked at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is still mind-numbing. But it could have been even worse, much worse, except for the efforts—and perhaps more significantly, the instincts—of one man on one day, August 4, 2001. In the course of “just doing his job,” one man changed history and perhaps prevented the virtual decapitation of the United States government on September 11, 2001. His name is Jose Melendez-Perez.
\ Publishers WeeklyAt the center of this dramatic true story is Mohammed al Kahtani, allegedly meant to serve as the 20th 9/11 hijacker, whose denial of entry to the U.S. by an Orlando customs officer may have provided just the edge that the passengers of United Flight 93 needed to overpower their captors. The questions that surround him, however, are central to the execution of the war on terror: in particular, was Kahtani a "highly trained al-Qaeda operative" or a "low-level mercenary tortured by his interrogators out of frustration or pure malice?" From the political fallout of denying foreign visitors entry to the fine line between profiling and professionalism (says one interrogation expert, "that intuitiveness, that innate ability, that instinct... if you fine tune it, you have a very powerful person") to the disturbing procedures at Guantanamo Bay, radio talk show host Smerconish (Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism) presents the vivid narrative of United Flight 93 and the issues at hand with the skill of a seasoned reporter. Proceeds from the book support the Flight 93 National Memorial Campaign. \ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\ \
