Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad
by: Andrew C. McCarthy
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Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic terror.
Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic terror.
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- Reads more like a political opinion piece...
I think the author is a bit narrow-minded based on their past personal experience with Muslims and painted the picture via that very narrow viewpoint, which only serves to feed an already racist view of a certain group of people and denies any culpability. The book contains some interesting pieces of history, but overall it plays on people's fear and vulnerability of cultures they do not know or understand. It does not examine the complexity of the truth objectively.
America's role in ... Read More
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- War, Not Law Enforcement
Who better than the lead federal prosecutor of the Blind Sheikh (mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing) to explain to Americans that the criminal law will never defeat terrorism?
Mr. McCarthy's book delivers the goods on two levels:First, this is a gripping and highly entertaining story of sinister plots, dogged (though often ham-handed) police work, heroic informants and complex legal maneuvers, ending - the reader is happy to discover - in guilty verdicts and life sentences.Among other ... Read More
Rating: - It didn't have to end like this.
It didn't have to end the way that it did, with 3000 dead and a smoking hole in lower Manhattan. We were warned.We had gotten our wake-up call. It was our choice to go back to sleep.
What makes Andrew McCarthy's book a must read for everyone is that he is not a journalist telling someone else's story. He is the lead prosecutor in the case against the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and this is his first-hand account of that high-profile prosecution and the events ... Read More
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- Opinion
It's great that America is to blame for everything but if you look at the ideology of Al Qaeda they do not care who they deem is wrong. In their eyes they deal with what they do not like with a sword not a kind word. Look at the bombings in Spain, last I heard Spain was not into world dominance like the US apparently is.
I also noticed that the Taliban and Al Qeda had no problem blowing up those Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. We all know that for centuries the Buddhist's have worked hard to rule the ... Read More
Rating: - Book review for Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad
A must read.Good overview of events, detail coverage of individual people involved yet very readable.Concludes with an excellent review of the dangers America faced and still faces.
- Reads more like a political opinion piece...I think the author is a bit narrow-minded based on their past personal experience with Muslims and painted the picture via that very narrow viewpoint, which only serves to feed an already racist view of a certain group of people and denies any culpability. The book contains some interesting pieces of history, but overall it plays on people's fear and vulnerability of cultures they do not know or understand. It does not examine the complexity of the truth objectively.
America's role in ... Read More
- War, Not Law EnforcementWho better than the lead federal prosecutor of the Blind Sheikh (mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing) to explain to Americans that the criminal law will never defeat terrorism?
Mr. McCarthy's book delivers the goods on two levels:First, this is a gripping and highly entertaining story of sinister plots, dogged (though often ham-handed) police work, heroic informants and complex legal maneuvers, ending - the reader is happy to discover - in guilty verdicts and life sentences.Among other ... Read More
- It didn't have to end like this.It didn't have to end the way that it did, with 3000 dead and a smoking hole in lower Manhattan. We were warned.We had gotten our wake-up call. It was our choice to go back to sleep.
What makes Andrew McCarthy's book a must read for everyone is that he is not a journalist telling someone else's story. He is the lead prosecutor in the case against the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and this is his first-hand account of that high-profile prosecution and the events ... Read More
- OpinionIt's great that America is to blame for everything but if you look at the ideology of Al Qaeda they do not care who they deem is wrong. In their eyes they deal with what they do not like with a sword not a kind word. Look at the bombings in Spain, last I heard Spain was not into world dominance like the US apparently is.
I also noticed that the Taliban and Al Qeda had no problem blowing up those Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. We all know that for centuries the Buddhist's have worked hard to rule the ... Read More
- Book review for Willful Blindness: Memoir of the JihadA must read.Good overview of events, detail coverage of individual people involved yet very readable.Concludes with an excellent review of the dangers America faced and still faces.
