THE LOOMING TOWER

The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

Introduction

This is an important book to appear on this historical juncture, not because of what it reveals about the inner organizational secrets of al-Qaeda (this was always a more mythical entity than a real one); but about the firm boundaries of reformist discourse when it comes to exposing the legend under consideration, even when all the evidence points to dramatically different directions from the authorized account.

Explanation

The Looming Tower turns out to argue against its own brief that is, to explain the rise of the world's leading terrorist organization because any close look at the ...