Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad
"Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the United States, the frontline was the courtroom. So while a diffident American government prosecuted a relative handful of "defendants," committed militants waged a campaign of jihad - holy war - boldly targeting America's greatest city, and American society itself, for annihilation." The jihad continues to this day. But now, fifteen...
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Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic terror. Publishers Weekly In this annotated retrospective, the prosecutor responsible for leading the investigation of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and others involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing dissects the miscues between federal agencies that led to that event while laying bare the challenges facing the war on terror today. The pre-1993 comedy of errors begins with the CIA's decision to funnel arms and money to Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war and continues with inexplicable lapses of communication between the State Department and immigration officials (despite having been placed on a State Department terror "watchlist," the sheikh travels freely to the United States). The most enduring oversight, however, at least from McCarthy's perspective, is the refusal among academics and political leaders to confront fundamentalist Islamic tenets, the "800-pound gorilla that is somehow always in the middle of the room when terror strikes." The jihadist philosophy that guided the Blind Sheikh is traced through generations of Islamic thinkers to the Prophet Mohammed himself. Though McCarthy's language is at times cumbersome, his firsthand account of jihad's rise and the sheikh's "trial of the century" is an important contribution (and in some instances, counterpoint) to existing literature on the attack that foreshadowed disaster to come. (Mar.)Copyright 2007Reed Business Information
1 "Imagine the Liability!" 12 Battalions and Illusions 143 "We Are Terrorists!" 244 The Blind Sheikh Emerges 415 Afghanistan? Who Needs to Know? 516 Feeding the Beast 597 Jihad in America 728 The Real Deal ... Under Our Nose 919 Upheaval 11210 Conspiracy? What Conspiracy? 12511 The Informant 13712 The Jihadist Way: Victory and Vengeance 15413 Divorce 16214 No Indication? 17615 Aftermath 19016 Spy Games 20117 Siddig Ali Takes Center Stage 21318 Recruited for the Jihad 22019 The Landmarks Plot 23120 Planning the End Game 24521 "The Projects Are a Duty!" 25522 Don't Deport Him, Indict Him 26523 The Salem Tapes 27824 Trial and Error 29425 None So Blind ... 307Notes 319
\ Publishers WeeklyIn this annotated retrospective, the prosecutor responsible for leading the investigation of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and others involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing dissects the miscues between federal agencies that led to that event while laying bare the challenges facing the war on terror today. The pre-1993 comedy of errors begins with the CIA's decision to funnel arms and money to Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war and continues with inexplicable lapses of communication between the State Department and immigration officials (despite having been placed on a State Department terror "watchlist," the sheikh travels freely to the United States). The most enduring oversight, however, at least from McCarthy's perspective, is the refusal among academics and political leaders to confront fundamentalist Islamic tenets, the "800-pound gorilla that is somehow always in the middle of the room when terror strikes." The jihadist philosophy that guided the Blind Sheikh is traced through generations of Islamic thinkers to the Prophet Mohammed himself. Though McCarthy's language is at times cumbersome, his firsthand account of jihad's rise and the sheikh's "trial of the century" is an important contribution (and in some instances, counterpoint) to existing literature on the attack that foreshadowed disaster to come. (Mar.)\ Copyright 2007Reed Business Information\ \
