The War Against the Terror Masters Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.

The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fighting-including the state sponsors of that network; the role of radical Islam; and the enemy collaboration of some of our traditional Middle Eastern "allies";-and, most convincingly, what we must do to win the war. The War Against the Terror Masters examines the two sides of the war: the rise of the international terror network, and the past and current efforts of our intelligence services to destroy the terror masters in the U.S. and overseas. Ledeen's new book also visits every country in the Near East and describes the terrorist cancers in each. Among many revelations that will attract wide attention: *How the terror network survived the loss of its main sponsor, the Soviet Union. *How the FBI learned from a KGB defector-twenty years before Osama's bin Laden's murderous assault-of the existance of Arab terrorist sleeper networks inside the United States. *How moralistic guidelines straight-jacketed the FBI from even collecting a file of newspaper clippings on known terror groups operating in America. *How the internal culture of the CIA, and severe limitations on its ability to operate, blinded us to the growth of terror networks. And much more. Michael A. Ledeen , a noted political analyst and highly knowledgeable about the Near East, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute. He is the author of Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character . A contributer to The Wall Street Journal , he lives and works in Washington, D.C. A report on the rise of the international terror networks, and the efforts of our intelligence services to destroy terrorism in United States and overseas, The War Against the Terror Masters, newly updated for this edition, explains why the U.S. was so unprepared for the 9/11 catastrophe. The book also explores the nature of the terror networks the U.S. is fighting (including their state sponsors); the role of radical Islam in terrorism; the enemy collaboration of some of our traditional Middle Eastern "allies"; and, most convincingly, what America must do to win the war on terror. In the process, this study examines countries throughout the Near East and describes the terrorist cancer cells in each. Ledeen reveals how the terror network survived the loss of its main sponsor, the Soviet Union; how the FBI learned from a KGB defector'”twenty years before Osama bin Laden's murderous assault on September 11'”of the existence of Arab terrorist sleeper networks inside the United States; and much more. "Sometimes controversial, often provocative, always informative and insightful."'” Bernard Lewis, author of What Went Wrong? and The Arabs in History "Transcend[s] mere descriptive narrative and seek[s] to fix a value'”political, philosophical or strategic'”on the events of 9/11."'” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal

Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and highly knowledgeable about the Near East, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute. He is the author of Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character. A contributer to The Wall Street Journal, he lives and works in Washington, D.C.