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An excellent book that gives a thorough but highly readable account of the formation of Al Qaeda, the lives of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic radicals and the events that led up to the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Wright seems to lay the lion's share of the blame for not intercepting and preventing the attack at the feet of the CIA whose turf war with the FBI trumped co-operative investigation. Had the two agencies simply worked together, Wright suggests, 9/11 might well have been p
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Excellent historical background to the sad & sickening theology of OBL and al Qaeda, formulated & adapted from the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood. This insightful & excellently written historical chronicle takes the reader right up to that fateful day now known arithmetically as 9/11.
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