The ultimate insider's account of the battle against terrorism
Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent, served on the front lines against Al Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counter-terrorism operative and interrogator. He has been profiled in The New Yorker and featured in books, newspaper articles, and documentaries around the globe.
In a new memoir, a former F.B.I. agent who tracked Al Qaeda before
and after the Sept. 11 attacks paints a devastating picture of
rivalry and dysfunction inside the government 's counterterrorism
agencies. The book describes missed opportunities to defuse the
2001 plot, and argues that other attacks overseas might have been
prevented, and Osama bin Laden found earlier, if interrogations had
not been mismanaged. --Scott Shane
To those inside the U.S. government Soufan has long been something
of a legend. He conducted the most effective and fruitful
interrogations of Al Qaeda suspects during the war on terrorism,
and save for some inexplicable failures by the CIA, he and his team
might well have prevented 9/11. Soufan has since left the FBI and
written a gripping account of his experiences, brimming with
details about Al Qaeda and its historical development.
In its cynical decision to censor the memoir of former F.B.I.
Special Agent Ali Soufan, the C.I.A. is seeking to punish a critic
and to obscure history. --Lawrence Wright
Superb. An education. And the best book on al Qaeda out there, bar
none. --Robert Baer, former CIA official and author of "See No
Evil, Sleeping with the Devil, and The Devil We Know"
Unfortunately, we only have one Ali Soufan. Had American
intelligence listened to him, 9/11 might never have happened. No
one did more to unravel the story of al-Qaeda than Ali Soufan.
Thankfully, he's left another legacy in this book. Anyone who wants
to know what really happened should read it. It's an inspiring but
wrenching story told from the heart of a great American. --Lawrence
Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to
9/11"
... this is an absorbing account of America's fightback after 9/11,
full of revealing or amusing details ... So ultimately this book is
cheering as well as fascinating, because it reveals the dedication
of those who defend us, as well as the weird frailties of those who
try to kill us.
the revelations uncovered are worth it; this is a story that had to
be told.
Although many have claimed to tell the inside story of the hunt for
al-Qaeda, Ali Soufan has a better claim than most ... this is one
of the most valuable and detailed accounts of its subject to appear
in the past decade.
Soufan describes many instances in which he uses his knowledge and
a savvy rapport to exploit the personal foibles and intellectual
weaknesses of his subjects ... The story of America's most famous
Arab American FBI agent couldn't come at a more poignant time.
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