Here I am as a nine-year-old in California, dreaming of hitting one out of the park, before my mother and I flew off to Zurich. (Courtesy of the author)

Getting ready for another jump at the Farm in 1977. (Courtesy of the author)

The American Embassy in Beirut, bombed on April 18, 1983. (Courtesy of the author)

Muhammad Hassuna, the man believed to be the suicide bomber who blew up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. (Courtesy of the author)

Muhammad Murad kidnapped four American professors at Beirut University College in 1987. This photo was taken from Lebanese government offices by agents. (Courtesy of the author)

From left to right: Muhammad Hammadah, who hijacked a TWA airplane in 1985, his brother ‘Abd-Al-Hadi Hammadah, and two unidentified Pasdaran escorts visiting the Iraqi front in Iran. This picture was stolen from an IJO safehouse in Beirut by CIA agents. (Courtesy of the author)

Husayn Khalil, a master Hizballah terrorist, praying at a Beirut mosque in the early 1980s. He is third from left in second row, wearing glasses (Courtesy of the author)

Passport application of Talal Husni Hamiyah, head of external operations for Special Security in Lebanon. Agents lifted this photograph at the author’s direction from Lebanese government offices. (Courtesy of the author)

‘Imad Mughniyah’s passport photograph. (Courtesy of the author)

Ri’Babl Khalil Jallul’s passport application. He died during the hijacking of an Iraqi Airlines flight in 1986. Agents also lifted this photograph. (Courtesy of the author)

After losing two embassies, the State Department finally built a fortress in Beirut. This photograph is from 1987. (Courtesy of the author)

‘Imad Mughniyah (center with hands in his pocket) watching CNN coverage of the Iranian Airbus accidentally shot down over the Gulf in 1988. (Courtesy of the author)

Posing on Beirut’s Green Line in 1987. (Courtesy of the author)

A C-140 landing to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in 1992. (Courtesy of the author)

In ancient Soghdiana (the Yaghnob Valley, Tajikistan) with a Yaghnobi in 1994. (Courtesy of the author)

A “CIA Army” in the Pamirs in Tajikistan. They accompanied me into the remote Yaghnob Valley in 1994. (Courtesy of the author)

Yasir Arafat being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Shimon Peres, center, and Yitzhak Rabin. When I see photographs like this I have to remind myself that Arafat spent years in terrorist organizations. (Courtesy AP/Wide World Photos)

Burning confidential documents in Salah Al-Din, Iraq, March 1995. (Courtesy of the author)

The Director of Operations Dave Cohen awarding me a Merit Unit Citation for my work in Iraq from January through March in 1995. (Courtesy of the author)

It took more than a decade to find out precisely who blew up our embassy in Beirut. I am hopeful that it won’t take that long for the government to get to the bottom of who caused the horrible attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Courtesy AP/Wide World Photos)