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Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America
Touchstone
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
337 pages ISBN: 1476727937 EAN: 9781476727936 Kindle: B00A285LGI Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
How safe are we? What do we sacrifice to feel safe? And
who pays the ultimate price? Two Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalists examine one of the most sensitive
post–9/11 national security investigations—a breathtaking
race to prevent an al-Qaeda bomber from launching Osama bin
Laden’s final attack on American soil. In Enemies
Within, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay bare the
complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism
and intelligence in America through the pursuit of
Najibullah Zazi, a terrorist bomber who trained under one of
bin Laden’s most trusted deputies. Zazi and his
coconspirators represented America’s greatest fear: a
terrorist cell operating inside America. Apuzzo and
Goldman lift the veil of secrecy to reveal the strengths and
weaknesses of our counterterrorism measures. This real-life
spy story—uncovered in previously unpublished secret NYPD
documents and interviews with intelligence sources—shows
that while many of these programs are more invasive than
ever, they are often counterproductive at best.
After 9/11, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
initiated an audacious plan for the Big Apple: dispatch a
vast network of plainclothes officers and paid
informants—called “rakers” and “mosque crawlers”—into Muslim
neighborhoods to infiltrate religious communities and
eavesdrop on college campuses. Police amassed data on
innocent people, often for their religious and political
beliefs. But when it mattered most, these strategies failed
to identify the most imminent threats. Enemies
Within tackles the tough questions about the measures
that we take to protect ourselves from real and perceived
threats. Apuzzo and Goldman take readers inside America’s
sprawling counterterrorism machine while it operates at full
throttle. They reveal what works, what doesn’t, and what
Americans have unknowingly given up.
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