The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack [NOOK Book]

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Overview

“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations

Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots.

Kessler takes you inside the war rooms of this battle—from the newly created National Counterterrorism Center to FBI ...
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Overview

“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations

Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots.

Kessler takes you inside the war rooms of this battle—from the newly created National Counterterrorism Center to FBI headquarters, from the CIA to the National Security Agency, from the Pentagon to the Oval Office—to explain why we have gone so long since 9/11 without a successful attack and to reveal the many close calls we never hear about. The race to stop the terrorists, Kessler shows, is more desperate than ever.

Based on exclusive interviews with FBI Director Robert Mueller, CIA Director Michael Hayden, White House Counterterrorism Chief Fran Townsend, and dozens of key intelligence operatives at all levels, The Terrorist Watch:

• tells the previously unreported story of how the United States helped thwart the 2006 London terrorist plot, broke up terrorist cells in Canada, and prevented numerous other attacks
• reveals how the CIA and FBI have rolled up more than 5,000 terrorists worldwide since 9/11
• provides a stunning insider’s account from the FBI agent
who spent eight months debriefing Saddam Hussein after his capture
• pinpoints press leaks that have resulted in CIA agents’ deaths, caused foreign countries to stop cooperating on key investigations, and even tipped off Osama bin Laden to U.S. surveillance
• destroys numerous media myths, such as the canard that the FBI and CIA still don’t cooperate on investigations
• discloses the truth about the number of U.S. mosques where imans preach jihad
• shows how the intelligence community has radically changed its mission—and how the media have misled the public about those changes

Never before has a journalist gained such access to the FBI, the CIA, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the other agencies that are doing the unheralded work of finding and capturing terrorists.

Ronald Kessler’s you-are-there narrative tells the real story of the war on terror and will transform the way you view the greatest problem of our age.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307450166
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 12/30/2008
  • Sold by: Random House
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 231,547
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Ronald Kessler
Ronald Kessler
Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen nonfiction books, including The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI; Inside the CIA; Inside the White House; A Matter of Character; and Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady. A former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, Kessler has won sixteen journalism awards, including two George Polk Awards. He is chief Washington correspondent of NewsMax.com. Kessler lives in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Pamela. His website is RonaldKessler.com.


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Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 "We're at War" 7

2 Double Whammy 11

3 "The Wall" 19

4 Cross-Examining Agents 24

5 Risk Aversion 29

6 Pocket Litter 35

7 Second Wave 42

8 Ksm 51

9 Stirring Up Librarians 61

10 "Spying on Americans" 72

11 Eavesdropping on Bin Laden 82

12 The Terrorist Mind-Set 93

13 An American M15 100

14 Dumb Cops 107

15 "You Okay, Dad?" 115

16 Leaks 127

17 An Assassination Attempt 140

18 Saddam's Friend 144

19 Threat Matrix 160

20 Neutralizing Bin Laden 172

21 Preempt, Disrupt, Defeat 181

22 Dr. Strangelove 190

23 On the Hunt 196

24 Countering Spin 206

25 10,000 Threats 215

26 Pulling off a Nuclear Attack 221

27 The Ceo of the War on Terror 227

Acknowledgments 247

Index 249

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2007

    Revealing to say the least.

    This book is a real eye-opener, taking us from the totally gutted intellegence agencies of the 90's to the highly effective units they have become. I found it especially interesting where Kessler pulled back the curtain on todays media. This is must reading for people on all sides of the political spectrum. You will learn something if you read with an open mind.

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