Blind Spot: The Secret History of American CounterterrorismBasic Books, 2005 - Всего страниц: 399 In this revelatory new account, national security historian Timothy Naftali relates the full back story of AmericaÕs attempts to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures, missteps, and blind spots in our intelligence services came to a head, with tragic results.At the end of World War II, the OSSÕs ÒX-2Ó department had established a seamless system for countering the threats of die-hard Nazi terrorists. But those capabilities were soon forgotten, and it wasnÕt until 1968, when Palestinian groups began a series of highly publicized airplane hijackings, that the U.S. began to take counterterrorism seriously. Naftali narrates the game of Òcatch-upÓ that various administrations and the CIA played Ñwith varying degrees of successÑfrom the Munich Games hostage-taking to the raft of terrorist incidents in the mid-1980s through the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and up to 9/11.In riveting detail, Naftali shows why holes in U.S. homeland security discovered by Vice President George H. W. Bush in 1986 were still a problem when his son became President, and why George W. Bush did little to fix them until it was too late. Naftali concludes that open, liberal democracies like the U.S. are incapable of effectively stopping terrorism. For anyone concerned about the future of AmericaÕs security, this masterful history will be necessaryÑand eye-openingÑreading. |
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The Plot to Kill General Eisenhower | 1 |
Hijacking | 19 |
The Lessons of Munich 1972 | 54 |
Theres Very Little We Can Do | 78 |
The Lull Before the Storm | 99 |
False Start | 116 |
Striking Back | 150 |
The Silent Struggle | 202 |
The New Terrorism | 227 |
Clinton Versus bin Laden | 260 |
George W Bush and bin Laden | 286 |
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