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How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him
Regan Books
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
640 pages
ISBN: 0060886889
EAN: 9780060886882
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent
of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S.
intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian
army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in
Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in
California—even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda
campaign of terror that culminated in 9/11. As investigative
reporter Peter Lance demonstrates in this gripping
narrative, senior U.S. law enforcement officials—including
the now-celebrated U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who
personally interviewed Mohamed long before he was brought to
ground—were powerless to stop him. In the annals of
espionage, few men have moved between the hunters and the
hunted with as much audacity as Ali Mohamed. For almost two
decades, the former Egyptian army commando succeeded in
living a double life. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he
moved in and out of the U.S. with impunity, marrying an
American woman, becoming a naturalized citizen, and posing
as an FBI informant—all while acting as chief of security
for Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Known to his
fellow terrorists as Ali Amiriki, or "Ali the American,"
Mohamed gained access to the most sensitive intelligence in
the U.S. counterterrorism arsenal while brokering terror
summits, planning bombing missions, and training jihadis in
bomb building, assassination, the creation of sleeper cells,
and other acts of espionage.Building on the investigation he
first chronicled in his previous books, 1000 Years for
Revenge and Cover Up, Lance uses Mohamed to trace the untold
story of al Qaeda's rise in the 1980s and 1990s. Incredibly,
Mohamed, who remains in custodial witness protection today,
has never been sentenced for his crimes. He exists under a
veil of secrecy—a living witness to how the U.S.
intelligence community was outflanked for years by the
terror network. From his first appearance on the FBI's radar in
1989—training Islamic extremists on Long Island—to his
presence in the database of Operation Able Danger eighteen
months before 9/11, this devious triple agent was the one
terrorist they had to sweep under the rug. Filled with
news-making revelations, Triple Cross exposes the
incompetence and duplicity of the FBI and Justice Department
before 9/11 . . . and raises serious questions about how
many more secrets the Feds may still be hiding.
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