2/28/2023 0 Comments The looming tower![]() 9/11 effectively ends the narrative on a dramatic note. As time in the book moves closer towards September 2001, there is a perceptive quickening in pace until the planes hit the towers. Surprisingly, the vast amount of detail and the intricate webs of different factions and players does not slow the book down no glossary or cast of characters is required. Tracing their actions from childhood through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Wright lays out the trail of Al-Qaeda's development into a terror organization that first struck in Tanzania and Kenya and later in the United States. Exhaustively interviewing hundreds who came into contact with these men, Wright develops a highly detailed understanding of what motivates these men and how they developed their tafkiri fundamentalism. Wright begins his analysis by examining the lives of the two main players, Al-Zawahiri and Bin Ladin. ![]() Taking a more forensic approach to the personalities that make up Al-Qaeda, Wright allows the audience a better understanding into just how these jihadists became the sick, twisted, corrupt men who called for war not just against the United States, but anyone who didn't share their fundamentalist views. Of all the books released this year, Lawrence Wright's exhaustively researched and extraordinarily well-written The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, is one of the few must read books of 2006. ![]()
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