Relentless Pursuit The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists

by Katz, Samuel M.

• ISBN13: 9780765304025
• ISBN10: 0765304023
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

Al Queda's war on America did not start on September 11, 2001. Just ask the Diplomatic Security Service. It was on February 6, 1993, that the United States was first attacked on its own soil by foreign terrorists. A zealous band of Middle Easterners, holy warriors determined to punish the U.S. for its supposed transgressions against Islam, packed over a ton of home made explosives into the back of a rented van. They drove their bomb across the Hudson from New Jersey, maneuvered it through downtown traffic and parked it in the underground garage at the Vista Hotel, beneath the twin towers of the World Trade Center. They lit a long fuse, which allowed them time to get back to New Jersey to watch the results of the explosion on CNN. They hoped to topple one mammoth tower into the other and kill ten thousand people or more. Miraculously, only six people were killed. Most of the group were captured within a week, but the mastermind behind the attack, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, had immediately goneto JFK airport to fly to Pakistan. Before leaving, he phoned the Associated Press and claimed responsibility for the bombing in the name of the

Author Biography

Samuel M. Katz is editor in chief of Special Ops, a journal dedicated to profiles of military and law enforcement special operations units worldwide.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Special Agents	p. 9
Introduction: Badges Without Borders Against an Enemy Without Frontiers	p. 15
Signposts Along the Road	p. 25
"The Traveler"	p. 59
Ambassador of the Apocalypse	p. 95
"The Stans"	p. 125
True Rewards	p. 155
Payback	p. 199
Outposts	p. 227
Outside the Box	p. 263
Postscript: Same Precinct, New World	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 283
Notes	p. 291
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