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    The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it
    The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it
    The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it

    Written by John Miller, Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell

    Narrated by John Miller

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    About this audiobook

    In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden and al Qaeda, to become Chief of Security at the World Trade Center. John O'Neill died on that awful day. The FBI's O'Neill, along with Neil Herman, reporter John Miller and very few others, had been on bin Laden's trail for years. To them, he had long been considered the most dangerous man on the planet.
    In The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, John Miller, an award-winning journalist and co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, along with veteran reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, takes us back more than ten years to the birth of the terrorist cell that later metastasized into Qaeda's New York operation.
    This remarkable audiobook offers a firsthand account of what it is to be a police officer, an FBI agent or a reporter obsessed with a case few people will take seriously. The Cell contains a first-person account of Miller's face-to-face meeting with bin Laden and provides the first complete treatment to piece together what led to the events of 9/11, ultimately delivering the disturbing answer to the question: why, with all the information the intelligence community had, was no one able to stop the September 11 attacks?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2002
    ISBN9780743542548
    The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it
    Author

    John Miller

    John Miller's first novel, The Featherbed, received stellar reviews and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 22. Besides novels, Miller has written on culture and politics, and in his spare time he provides consulting services to local and international non-profit organizations and governments. He lives in Toronto

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      I think books like The Cell are important and need to be read to remind us of the message sent loud and clear by terrorists on 9/11. I believe, particularly at this time with a new liberal administration in Washington, DC, the message of 9/ll has been trivialized. As a result, the work of those people who protect the US from further attacks on America is buried and lost with little appreciation given to those who work very hard to keep our country safe and our population alive. What possible difference could a several trillion dollar increase in budget spending with a so-called "stimulus package" that isn't really going to stimulate much beyond bigger government going to make if all that's left of our country is destroyed buildings and dead citizens.The Cell traces the beginning of the invasion of terrorism into the United States through small groups/cells set up by radical islamic fundmentalists to its ultimate success in the attack of 9/11 in the US. What I liked most about this particular book was the lack of finger pointing. I've read other books about 9/11 wherein authors were not as interested in educating people about how such terrorism begins and spreads but instead wanted to nail down blame and make it stick with all the dedication of a dog gnashing his teeth into a ham bone. That particular stance serves no purpose in my view. We need to be aware of how terrorism works, how it's funded, how it recruits new members, and what kind of tools we need to stop it. The Cell not only examines how 9/11 happened, I believe the book also points out what we need to do to keep it from happening again. Unfortunately, I believe the current government has lost sight of this significant message.