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THE LOOMING TOWER: AL-QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
In this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism, from the rejection of Western values in the 1940s by the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Qutb-inspired Muslim Brotherhood, to Osama bin Laden, who preached terrorism on a spectacular scale as a means to drive the U.S. out of the Middle East. Enter John O'Neill, the FBI counter terrorism chief who connected the dots in the picture of al-Qaeda's plot and tried desperately to warn his bosses right up to the day he died — Sept. 11, 2001.
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