Contents

TITLE PAGE

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FOREWORD by Howell Raines

AUTHOR’S NOTE

ONE “We Saw People Jumping”

TWO Peshawar: The Office of Services

THREE “We’re Due for Something”

FOUR The Young Man from Saudi Arabia

FIVE Glick and Jarrah: An Open Life and a Closed One

SIX Terrorism Arrives in America

SEVEN Harry Ramos and Victor Wald: The Courage of Strangers

EIGHT “In Time of War There Is No Death”

NINE Yeneneh Betru: Medicine for the Neediest

TEN The Cell in Hamburg

ELEVEN John Ogonowski: Salt of the Earth

TWELVE While America Slept

THIRTEEN Richard A. Penney: Project Renewal

FOURTEEN The Commandos in America

FIFTEEN Peter J. Ganci: Born to Fight Fires

SIXTEEN The Terrorists Stay One Step Ahead

SEVENTEEN Like a Knife into a Gift-Wrapped Box

EIGHTEEN “Protect the White House at All Cost”

NINETEEN “We Had a Lot of Dying and Fire Up There”

TWENTY The Towers Come Down

TWENTY-ONE A Nation Suspended

TWENTY-TWO Aftermath

AFTERWORD

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

ALSO BY RICHARD BERNSTEIN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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