Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

摘要: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of World Trade Center came crashing down, one side Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, children lost their lives most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking as it was, had been long making: assault sophisticated horrifying a series operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One only handful Western journalists to have interviewed world's wanted man face face, has produced definitive book Jihadist network operates globally secrecy. In course four years investigative reporting, he scores insiders from associates family members Taliban leaders CIA officials traveled Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, United Kingdom learn truth about Laden's al Queda mission. Immense scope unnerving its findings, "Holy Inc." reveals: How lives, travels, communicates with "cells." role crushing defeat Soviet Union Afghanistan made him hero Muslims all over equipped endure bloody siege. ended up funding tune three billion dollars radical, anti-American Afghan groups allied Laden. attacks foreshadowed destruction among them bombings embassies Africaand warship USS "Cole" Yemen were planned executed. dimensions personal fortune, why freezing assets is both futile nearly impossible. ideology number two, who influenced profoundly holy war Egyptian Ayman Zawahiri. What can expect Islamist extremists future. Above all, helps us see radically new light: veritable corporation exploited twenty-first-century communications weapons technologies service medieval reading Koran war. essential for anyone trying understand tomorrow's threats militant movements could determine fate governments human over. Both author publisher will donate portion proceeds this Way's 11th Fund relief victims attacks.