While America slept -- The Afghan Jihad: The making of a holy warrior -- Blowback: The CIA and the Afghan War -- The Koran and the Kalashnikov: Bin Laden's years in Sudan -- From the peaks of the Hindu Kush: The declaration of war Investigation and retaliation: The embassy bombings -- The American connection: From Brooklyn to Seattle -- True believers: The Taliban and Bin Laden -- The holy warriors of Yemen: The bombing of the U.S.S. Cole -- The global network: around the world in eighty Jihads Afterword

1. Bin Laden
2. Osama
3. 1957-
4. Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
5. Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
6. Jihad