Willful Blindness : A Memoir of the Jihad

Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only on side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the United States, the frontline was the courtroom. So while a diffident American government prosecuted a relative handful of "defendants," committed militants waged a campaign of jihad-holy war-boldly targeting Americas greatest city, and American society itself, for annihilation.

Andrew C. McCarthy was a top federal prosecutor, investigating some of the most significant cases in recent history. In 1995, he led the seditious conspiracy prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States-a war that included the bombing of the World Trade Center and an even more ambitious plot to strike several New York City landmarks. Decorated with the Justice Departments highest honors, he retired from government in 2003, after helping launch the 9/11 investigation. He has become one of Americans most persuasive voices on national security tissues. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor at National Review.