Mastermind

by Miniter, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781595230720
• ISBN10: 1595230726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-03
• Publisher: Sentinel

Summary

The bestselling author of Shadow Warand Losing Bin Ladenexposes the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind behind 9/11. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, has carried out many of the biggest terrorist plots of the past twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Millennium Plots, and the beheading of Daniel Pearl. As the world awaits his trial, bestselling author and investigative journalist Richard Miniter brings to life his shocking true story. Based on more than one hundred interviews with government officials, generals, diplomats and spies-from the United States, Europe, the Arab world, and Afghanistan-and on the ground reporting from Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Guantánamo Bay, Miniter reveals never-before-reported Al Qaeda plots and surprising new details about the 9/11 attacks. He also shows how Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was radicalized in America and takes us inside terrorist safe houses, CIA war rooms, and the cages of Guantánamo Bay. While thoroughly reported and strongly sourced, this is a pounding narrative that reads like a thriller.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Origins
The Outsider	p. 13
Campus Radical	p. 35
Searching for War	p. 55
A Terrorist Career
Tradebom	p. 67
The Plot to Kill the Pope, the President, and Four Thousand Americans	p. 81
Losing Ramzi	p. 93
Meeting bin Laden	p. 107
The Planes Operation
September 11,2001	p. 119
Hunting KSM
The Daniel Pearl Murder	p. 133
Explosions in Paradise	p. 144
ôRecognize Us Yet?ö	p. 161
Interrogating KSM
KSM and Obama: The Mastermind's Last Laugh	p. 171
Aftermath	p. 210
Acknowledgments	p. 217
A Note on Sources and Methods	p. 219
List of Aliases Used by KSM	p. 225
Time Line	p. 227
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 269
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