Against All Enemies Inside America's War on Terror

by Clarke, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780743260459
• ISBN10: 0743260457
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-21
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

THE EXPLOSIVE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWith all-new excerpts from Richard Clarke's dramatic public testimony, and revealing corroboration from The 9/11 Commission ReportFrom the 9/11 Commission Report:"On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001], Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The 'real question' before the principals, he wrote, was 'are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat?...Is al Qida a big deal?...Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US,'Clarke wrote. 'What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier? That future day could happen at any time.'"

Author Biography

Richard A. Clarke from 2001 to 2003, was the Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. He is now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting.

Table of Contents

Evacuate the White House	p. 1
Stumbling into the Islamic world	p. 35
Unfinished mission, unintended consequences	p. 55
Terror returns (1993-1996)	p. 73
The almost war, 1996	p. 101
Al Qaeda revealed	p. 133
Beginning homeland protection	p. 155
Delenda est	p. 181
Millennium alert	p. 205
Before and after September 11	p. 227
Right war, wrong war	p. 247
Excerpts from public testimony to the 9/11 commission, delivered by Richard Clarke on March 24, 2004	p. 293
Excerpts from the 9/11 commission report	p. 299
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Excerpts

fromAgainst All Enemies

Wolfowitz fidgeted and scowled.... "Well, I just don't understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden."

"We are talking about a network of terrorist organizations called al Qaeda, that happens to be led by bin Laden, and we are talking about that network because it and it alone poses an immediate and serious threat to the United States," I answered....

Wolfowitz turned to me. "You give bin Laden too much credit. He could not do all these things like the 1993 attack on New York, not without a state sponsor. Just because FBI and CIA have failed to find the linkages does not mean they don't exist." I could hardly believe it, but Wolfowitz was actually spouting the totally discredited Laurie Mylroie theory that Iraq was behind the 1993 truck bomb at the World Trade Center, a theory that had been investigated for years and found to be totally untrue.

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