Endless Enemies

by Holcomb, Raymond

• ISBN13: 9781597973618
• ISBN10: 1597973610
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-14
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

FBI operative Raymond Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole. After 9/11, he assisted in interrogating Yemeni prisoners who had information about the attack, which led to identifying al Qaeda and some of the hijackers. After the capture of one of 9/11's most lethal masterminds, he went on a secret followup mission to Afghanistan. Holcomb's memoir provides detailed information about the FBI that only a longtime bureau insider can reveal, such as prison conditions and interrogation techniques in Guantánamo and Afghanistan. He describes hunting down and grilling criminals of every ilk around the world, and then creating and leading the FBI's elite cadre of counterterrorism agents who were at the helm of every major post-9/11 investigation, including the infiltration of homegrown conspiracies. Holcomb's absorbing account gives anyone interested in the training and activities of the FBI's elite tactical units a window into these highly effective organizations within the bureau.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. ix
Men in White Sheets	p. 1
Becoming a G Man	p. l7
Cold War Warrior	p. 23
Drug Agent	p. 33
Narco Queen	p. 51
SWAT Training	p. 63
Early SWAT Missions-and a New Kind of Enemy	p. 87
Al Qaeda in Africa: SWAT Overseas	p. 109
Tracking the Bombers	p. 121
The Secret Years	p. 133
Dream Job	p. 139
The USS Cole	p. 151
Yemen and 9/11	p. 165
Hoarding Information	p. 177
Getting in the Fight	p. 187
The Fly Team: Super Squad for Terror	p. 201
Terrorists in Our Midst	p. 209
Interrogation in Kabul	p. 221
The Next Attack	p. 237
Taking It to the Next Level	p. 255
Blood Diamonds	p. 267
We Need More Agents	p. 287
The Next Chapter	p. 297
Index	p. 305
About the Authors	p. 315
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