![]() ![]() The failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy.O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers.The birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole.The crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden. ![]() The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. ![]() Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. ![]() A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. ![]()
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