The black banners : inside the hunt for al-Qaeda / Ali H. Soufan with Daniel Freedman
Imprint
London : Allen Lane, 2011
Descript
xxvi, 572 p. : map ; 25 cm
CONTENT
The early years : The Fatwa and the bet ; Osama Air ; The Northern group -- Declaration of war : The al-Qaeda switchboard ; Operation Challenge and the Manchester Manual ; "You'll be singing like a canary" ; Millennium plot -- USS Cole : A naval destroyer in Yemen? ; The Hall of Death ; "We're stubborn, but we're not crazy" ; The human polygraph machine ; "What is al-Qaeda doing in Malaysia?" ; Bin Laden's errand boy -- The attack that changed the world : The Binalshibh riddle ; "What dots?" ; The Father of Death -- A new world order : Bin Laden's escape ; DocEx ; Black magic -- The first high-value detainee : Abu Zubaydah ; The contractors take over ; "We don't do that" -- Successes and failures : Guantánamo Bay ; 45 minutes ; The Crystal Ball memo -- Final missions : Leaving the FBI ; Undercover