Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

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The bestselling author of Shadow War and Losing Bin Laden exposes 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.

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ISBN-13: 9781595230720
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2011
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 454,033
Product dimensions: 9.08 (w) x 6.36 (h) x 1.06 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Miniter, an award-winning investigative journalist, has written two New York Times bestsellers on terrorism. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, National Review, and the New Republic as well as for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He frequently appears on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.

Introduction 1

Book I Origins

1 The Outsider 13

2 Campus Radical 35

3 Searching for War 55

Book II A Terrorist Career

4 Tradebom 67

5 The Plot to Kill the Pope, the President, and Four Thousand Americans 81

6 Losing Ramzi 93

7 Meeting bin Laden 107

Book III The Planes Operation

8 September 11,2001 119

Book IV Hunting KSM

9 The Daniel Pearl Murder 133

10 Explosions in Paradise 144

11 "Recognize Us Yet?" 161

Book V Interrogating KSM

12 KSM and Obama: The Mastermind's Last Laugh 171

13 Aftermath 210

Acknowledgments 217

A Note on Sources and Methods 219

List of Aliases Used by KSM 225

Time Line 227

Notes 241

Bibliography 263

Index 269

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Anonymous

Posted May 7, 2011

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indepth look at one of americas most hated terrorist

"mastermind" is a very hard to put down book. the arthur has put together many indepth interviews and documents giving a great background of one of the top terrorist khalid shaikh mohamammad showing how he planned so much of his sinister activities that he is known for: attempted asasinations of president bill clinton and the pope this writer also shows how he was able to spin the courts and the media to the jihad and his favor and I found it intresting that the fbi showed countless warning about this individuel and they were left unheeded which gave this terrorist more freewill to plan criminal activity this also has countless reserch showing obamas lack of intrest in national security. great gift idea for a friend or family member

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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AbeLGA

Posted June 30, 2011

Political Righg Wing Trash

No wonder the book has been a dud. Minter keeps writing "Obama the great orator" like all Obama can do is speak. I guess Minter should have delayed the book a month so he can update it with Bin Laden's capture.

Nothing on Iraq or on Bush doint nothing with the document "Bin Laden determined to strike in the US". Not one section on that.

Right wing book that FoxNews would like. Grade F. I never heard of Minter before but wont buy from him again.
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