Other reviewers have done a superb job of summarizing the details, so apart from absolutely endorsing this book as a five-star level of brilliant, earnest, and helpful research and analysis, I will only observe that it is not fully comprehensive.

Missing from this book is the fact that Dick Cheney knew in advance and organized a nation-wide "war game" to simulate defedning against terrorism, and this allowed Cheney to control the entire US Government. Full details are yet to be unearthed, but on the basis of all my other reading I am certain that the three World Trade Center buildings were dropped by controlled demolitions, that Rudy Guliani was a party to the conspiracy on two counts: recognizing that the Command Center in the World Trade Center would not be available and helping create the "alternative" command center on the piers; and in having hundreds of trucks pre-contracted to destroy and remove all evidence, something that caused the fire fighters to riot and tar Guliani for all time as "scoop and dump" Guliani.

The other missing aspect that has been fleshed out since the author wrote the book is that of the Pentagon being hit by a missile rather than an aircraft. There is emerging evidence that the World Trade Center was hit by military aircraft remotely piloted and painted to look like civilian aircraft. I cannot state that as a fact. I can state that it has not been properly investgated. On the Pentagon, I am certain that it was hit by a missile, not an aircraft, in part because there were NO airplane parts and no video of an airplane and no engine tracks and no luggage, bodies, or even a single aircraft seat; and in part because the USAF MajGen responsible for all Soviet imagery interpretation is on the record, on YouTube, saying it was a missile. I agree. Incidentally, the missile did not just hit an "unoccupied" part of the Pentagon--it also destroyed the computer holding the evidence on where the missing 2.3 trillion dollars went, missing funds that Rumsfeld was being grilled on by Congresswoman McInney on 10 September.

Bottom line: this book is an authoritative part of People's case against Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Rudy Guliani, and others of like ilk, who conspired against We the People and mass-murdered Americans to fabricate Congressional compliance and public apathy on their occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The lies they told have not stood the test of time; in Afghanistan we allowed Bin Laden to escape, and in Iraq we have inspired a massive insurgency given force by the hundreds of billions being spent on permanent military and intelligence and ostensibly dipomatic facilites.

The US taxpayer should be outraged. This author helps us all understand that the half trillion dollars spent "in our name," the thousands of US killed (tens of thousands of others), the 75,000 amputees (hundreds of thousands of others) have all been a looting festival.

God willing, this period will be seen at the last hurrah of the military-industrial "rule by secrecy" era. Books like this would not have been possible 20 years ago, even ten years ago. Now they set the stage for a general strike and the removal from office of all those who have betrayed the public trust.

Other recommended books:
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World
The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response
Enemies By Design

This is one reviewer who needs no convincing that our two most recent presidents (one an egg-sucking Democrat and the other an egg-sucking Republican) are accessories after the fact to murder (at the very least). OK? I'm already on-board - bought my ticket, checked my luggage, waited in the infinite security check queue, found my seat, buckled my seatbelt, restored my tray into the locked upright position, pulled out the sticky in-flight magazine from the pouch of the seat in front of me: Ready for takeoff. This is one true American patriot who has already removed the rose-colored executioner's sack from his head and done his homework. I know the score (and we're getting shutout!)



But you know there's a problem when the preacher can't even deliver his sermon without losing the interest of his own choir members! If this was a war on boredom, Nafeez M. Ahmed's book, THE WAR ON FREEDOM, would have been the first casualty. (Dude, I was already a "believer", but if you couldn't even keep me awake, how did you expect to fire up the congregants with this somnambulistic sermon?)



How did Ahmed put me to sleep? Let me count the ways: First of all, once you've made a point and driven it home, stop beating that poor, dead horse! It ain't ever gonna whinny again, so drop that whip. The horse is dead already; can it and feed it to the dogs! I don't need to hear the same information over and over and over again.



Secondly, when one is quoting another source, it's always advantageous to find the pertinent point in the quotation, lift it out and let the rest go free. You don't need to arrest the whole mob of words if only a dozen or two are the prime suspects. Geez Louise! Ahmed has huge blocks of quoted passages throughout the book going well beyond the call of duty. I'll bet if we excised all the words of other people in this 384 page book, we'd be left with about 75 pages.



And talk about dry? You thought the Mojave desert was dry? You thought Bob Newhart was dry? You thought James Bond's martini was dry? You thought your wife's baked chicken was dry? Man, I could find more "moisture" in a piece of severely burnt toast! Granted this is a serious subject that needs to be dealt with accordingly, but still.....Ahmed must be the life of a party. You know, a little personality - even if it's only rented - can do wonders for a book. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.



I also have problems with a book proposing a search for truth, but which relies so heavily on Socialistic, Left-wing sources. That's not to say that their Liberal bias automatically disqualifies them as a source, but quoting bastions of "truth, justice and the American way" such as Amnesty International, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Economist, Newsweek, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. And sometimes Ahmed repeats statements without digging deeper (e.g., he informs us that Counterpunch newsletter stated that Goldman Sachs in Tokyo sent an internal memo on Sept. 10th advising all employees of a possible terrorist attack and to avoid any American government buildings. Does he provide us with a copy of this memo? No. They said it, so it must be true? Why mention something that you haven't substantiated in any way?)



Then there's some pretty goofy stuff: Ahmed's inclusion of Barnett Rubin's complaint about "Congressional refusal to allocate funds for U.N. dues." (Pull up yer pants, Ahmed; yer Lefty credentials are showing!); his mention of "the vote fraud at Florida" (Whaddaya know? I've finally found someone whose math skills are worse than my own!); he mentions the escalation of widespread anti-globalisation protests illustrating increasing outrage with the Bush administration, and he also chastises the Bush foreign policy agenda for being in conflict with nominal allies on issues such as global warming and an international criminal court. (That's like beating a man for robbing a bank, and then beating him a second time for being a poor robber and leaving some cash in the vault!)



Personally, I believe that "W" should be impeached and then tried in a criminal court. And if there was really any justice in this country, he would be forced to share a prison cell with Bill Clinton until death do them part.



I've given this book 3 Stars because it does include plenty of valid information for the person who can manage to stay awake and sift through the pages. But this story has been told better. Try INSIDE JOB by Jim Marrs if you want "just the facts, ma'am" and without all the dead horse beatings. Or CROSSING THE RUBICON by Michael Ruppert if you want a heavy tome with all the details but without all the napping in between. But for all of those restless nights of tossing and turning, I recommend THE WAR ON INSOMNIA by Nafeez M. Ahmed. Take two chapters and call me in the morning.....if you wake up.

This is one reviewer who needs no convincing that our two most recent presidents (one an egg-sucking Democrat and the other an egg-sucking Republican) are accessories after the fact to murder (at the very least). OK? I'm already on-board - bought my ticket, checked my luggage, waited in the infinite security check queue, found my seat, buckled my seatbelt, restored my tray into the locked upright position, pulled out the sticky in-flight magazine from the pouch of the seat in front of me: Ready for takeoff. This is one true American patriot who has already removed the rose-colored executioner's sack from his head and done his homework. I know the score (and we're getting shutout!)

But you know there's a problem when the preacher can't even deliver his sermon without losing the interest of his own choir members! If this was a war on boredom, Nafeez M. Ahmed's book, THE WAR ON FREEDOM, would have been the first casualty. (Dude, I was already a "believer", but if you couldn't even keep me awake, how did you expect to fire up the congregants with this somnambulistic sermon?)

How did Ahmed put me to sleep? Let me count the ways: First of all, once you've made a point and driven it home, stop beating that poor, dead horse! It ain't ever gonna whinny again, so drop that whip. The horse is dead already; can it and feed it to the dogs! I don't need to hear the same information over and over and over again.

Secondly, when one is quoting another source, it's always advantageous to find the pertinent point in the quotation, lift it out and let the rest go free. You don't need to arrest the whole mob of words if only a dozen or two are the prime suspects. Geez Louise! Ahmed has huge blocks of quoted passages throughout the book going well beyond the call of duty. I'll bet if we excised all the words of other people in this 384 page book, we'd be left with about 75 pages.

And talk about dry? You thought the Mojave desert was dry? You thought Bob Newhart was dry? You thought James Bond's martini was dry? You thought your wife's baked chicken was dry? Man, I could find more "moisture" in a piece of severely burnt toast! Granted this is a serious subject that needs to be dealt with accordingly, but still.....Ahmed must be the life of a party. You know, a little personality - even if it's only rented - can do wonders for a book. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I also have problems with a book proposing a search for truth, but which relies so heavily on Socialistic, Left-wing sources. That's not to say that their Liberal bias automatically disqualifies them as a source, but quoting bastions of "truth, justice and the American way" such as Amnesty International, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Economist, Newsweek, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. And sometimes Ahmed repeats statements without digging deeper (e.g., he informs us that Counterpunch newsletter stated that Goldman Sachs in Tokyo sent an internal memo on Sept. 10th advising all employees of a possible terrorist attack and to avoid any American government buildings. Does he provide us with a copy of this memo? No. They said it, so it must be true? Why mention something that you haven't substantiated in any way?)

Then there's some pretty goofy stuff: Ahmed's inclusion of Barnett Rubin's complaint about "Congressional refusal to allocate funds for U.N. dues." (Pull up yer pants, Ahmed; yer Lefty credentials are showing!); his mention of "the vote fraud at Florida" (Whaddaya know? I've finally found someone whose math skills are worse than my own!); he mentions the escalation of widespread anti-globalisation protests illustrating increasing outrage with the Bush administration, and he also chastises the Bush foreign policy agenda for being in conflict with nominal allies on issues such as global warming and an international criminal court. (That's like beating a man for robbing a bank, and then beating him a second time for being a poor robber and leaving some cash in the vault!)

Personally, I believe that "W" should be impeached and then tried in a criminal court. And if there was really any justice in this country, he would be forced to share a prison cell with Bill Clinton until death do them part.

I've given this book 3 Stars because it does include plenty of valid information for the person who can manage to stay awake and sift through the pages. But this story has been told better. Try INSIDE JOB by Jim Marrs if you want "just the facts, ma'am" and without all the dead horse beatings. Or CROSSING THE RUBICON by Michael Ruppert if you want a heavy tome with all the details but without all the napping in between. But for all of those restless nights of tossing and turning, I recommend THE WAR ON INSOMNIA by Nafeez M. Ahmed. Take two chapters and call me in the morning.....if you wake up.

This is one reviewer who needs no convincing that our two most recent presidents (one an egg-sucking Democrat and the other an egg-sucking Republican) are accessories after the fact to murder (at the very least). OK? I'm already on-board - bought my ticket, checked my luggage, waited in the infinite security check queue, found my seat, buckled my seatbelt, restored my tray into the locked upright position, pulled out the sticky in-flight magazine from the pouch of the seat in front of me: Ready for takeoff. This is one true American patriot who has already removed the rose-colored executioner's sack from his head and done his homework. I know the score (and we're getting shutout!)

But you know there's a problem when the preacher can't even deliver his sermon without losing the interest of his own choir members! If this was a war on boredom, Nafeez M. Ahmed's book, THE WAR ON FREEDOM, would have been the first casualty. (Dude, I was already a "believer", but if you couldn't even keep me awake, how did you expect to fire up the congregants with this somnambulistic sermon?)

How did Ahmed put me to sleep? Let me count the ways: First of all, once you've made a point and driven it home, stop beating that poor, dead horse! It ain't ever gonna whinny again, so drop that whip. The horse is dead already; can it and feed it to the dogs! I don't need to hear the same information over and over and over again.

Secondly, when one is quoting another source, it's always advantageous to find the pertinent point in the quotation, lift it out and let the rest go free. You don't need to arrest the whole mob of words if only a dozen or two are the prime suspects. Geez Louise! Ahmed has huge blocks of quoted passages throughout the book going well beyond the call of duty. I'll bet if we excised all the words of other people in this 384 page book, we'd be left with about 75 pages.

And talk about dry? You thought the Mojave desert was dry? You thought Bob Newhart was dry? You thought James Bond's martini was dry? You thought your wife's baked chicken was dry? Man, I could find more "moisture" in a piece of severely burnt toast! Granted this is a serious subject that needs to be dealt with accordingly, but still.....Ahmed must be the life of a party. You know, a little personality - even if it's only rented - can do wonders for a book. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I also have problems with a book proposing a search for truth, but which relies so heavily on Socialistic, Left-wing sources. That's not to say that their Liberal bias automatically disqualifies them as a source, but quoting bastions of "truth, justice and the American way" such as Amnesty International, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Economist, Newsweek, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. And sometimes Ahmed repeats statements without digging deeper (e.g., he informs us that Counterpunch newsletter stated that Goldman Sachs in Tokyo sent an internal memo on Sept. 10th advising all employees of a possible terrorist attack and to avoid any American government buildings. Does he provide us with a copy of this memo? No. They said it, so it must be true? Why mention something that you haven't substantiated in any way?)

Then there's some pretty goofy stuff: Ahmed's inclusion of Barnett Rubin's complaint about "Congressional refusal to allocate funds for U.N. dues." (Pull up yer pants, Ahmed; yer Lefty credentials are showing!); his mention of "the vote fraud at Florida" (Whaddaya know? I've finally found someone whose math skills are worse than my own!); he mentions the escalation of widespread anti-globalisation protests illustrating increasing outrage with the Bush administration, and he also chastises the Bush foreign policy agenda for being in conflict with nominal allies on issues such as global warming and an international criminal court. (That's like beating a man for robbing a bank, and then beating him a second time for being a poor robber and leaving some cash in the vault!)

Personally, I believe that "W" should be impeached and then tried in a criminal court. And if there was really any justice in this country, he would be forced to share a prison cell with Bill Clinton until death do them part.

I've given this book 3 Stars because it does include plenty of valid information for the person who can manage to stay awake and sift through the pages. But this story has been told better. Try INSIDE JOB by Jim Marrs if you want "just the facts, ma'am" and without all the dead horse beatings. Or CROSSING THE RUBICON by Michael Ruppert if you want a heavy tome with all the details but without all the napping in between. But for all of those restless nights of tossing and turning, I recommend THE WAR ON INSOMNIA by Nafeez M. Ahmed. Take two chapters and call me in the morning.....if you wake up.

Its a fact that more than 60% of americans are uneducated people who cannot reason very well, they make very good followers. People such as
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Such people would never open their minds. I meet many such crazy extremist christians like the people above many times. Explaining them anything is impossible beacuse these people DO NOT have brain in them. They are pure robots who cannot think or reason on their own, they are hard wired and believe only what they have been hard wired to believe. If a guy who happens to be muslim tells that 2 + 2 is 4 they wouldnt believe him. But if their priest tells them 2 + 2 is 10 they would believe that. They were lucky to be born in states, where such mentally retarted people are well taken care of.

Great resource for the whole 9/11 situation. Good history, good resourcing, great for your library to see other connnections to the 'new pearl harbor'.

Great resource for the whole 9/11 situation. Good history, good resourcing, great for your library to see other connnections to the 'new pearl harbor'.

This book is very thoroughly researched! It reads a bit like a detective investigation and is every bit as gripping, using published sources (newspaper, interviews, testimony) to draw the reader beyond the official explanation of 9/11.

Suffice to say, Nafeez's conclusions are even more shocking than the thought of a terrorist net outwitting the CIA, FBI and military of the world's only superpower.

This book is very thoroughly researched! It reads a bit like a detective investigation and is every bit as gripping, using published sources (newspaper, interviews, testimony) to draw the reader beyond the official explanation of 9/11.

Suffice to say, Nafeez's conclusions are even more shocking than the thought of a terrorist net outwitting the CIA, FBI and military of the world's only superpower.

I was so taken with the possibility of finding in this book an analytical, logical, accurate dissection of the roots of 9/11. Instead, unfortunately, the book is not any of these. The logic of the connections seems to be along the lines of " If I have a green car and you have a green car, then You and I are the same person." The book reminds me of Oliver's Stone's movie of the Kennedy assassination where any clue was always connected to another clue, to an innuendo, to another clue, more vague information, and ultimately you couldn't get away from it at all, "Oh! My God it's an inside job!" Why is it so hard to see the attack for what it was: Highly intelligent and educated Islamic radicals killing innocent people to make a point.

The reviews above say most all that can be said. What I feel I need to add is that (as John Dean mentioned in his book) events are moving so rapidly that many other books on the subject "fill in" extrapolative hypotheses which were not evident when this brilliant, young writer went to press. I must pay homage, though, to the book that ALL other authors refer to when writing about the non-official version of "the Day". "Forbidden Truth" was out there, but this book is much more coherent, and, as stated in the last review, does not Bush-bash - or even really focus on that. I have two things to lay out here that, to my knowledge, have not been commented upon by any author. First, watch the footage of Ramzi bin-Alshibh being led away by his captors in Karachi, Pakistan: What do you see that you SHOULDN'T see in a capture of this importance? Second, look at the picture of "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" taken at the moment of his capture in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. What DON'T you see that you should see in a picture of an Islamic fundamentalist?

The reviews above say most all that can be said. What I feel I need to add is that (as John Dean mentioned in his book) events are moving so rapidly that many other books on the subject "fill in" extrapolative hypotheses which were not evident when this brilliant, young writer went to press. I must pay homage, though, to the book that ALL other authors refer to when writing about the non-official version of "the Day". "Forbidden Truth" was out there, but this book is much more coherent, and, as stated in the last review, does not Bush-bash - or even really focus on that. I have two things to lay out here that, to my knowledge, have not been commented upon by any author. First, watch the footage of Ramzi bin-Alshibh being led away by his captors in Karachi, Pakistan: What do you see that you SHOULDN'T see in a capture of this importance? Second, look at the picture of "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" taken at the moment of his capture in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. What DON'T you see that you should see in a picture of an Islamic fundamentalist?

Ignore the losers who post 1 star reviews. I find it hilarious that these phony patriots dare to call this book "propaganda" and people who read it "brainwashed" when it is painfully obvious that these morons are the ones that are brainwashed and complete propaganda slaves.

Isn't it sad that a guy from Bangladesh that lives in the U.K. has to write a book in order to alert Americans to the incredible danger they're in? People that bash this book are the very people propaganda was designed for. I once read a quote that said "The purpose of propaganda is not to fool the critical thinker, it's purpose is to give the moral coward a reason not to have to think." How very true.

All these 9/11 books aren't about bashing Bush and they are not anti-American. How can you call something anti-American when it's purpose is to wake you up out of your television-induced trance so you can do something to save the country you "love" so much? Bush and Cheney are just the latest in a long line of gangsters that are slected, not elected, to run this country.

So all you "sunshine patriots" keep believing in this organized crime syndicate that we have that calls itself a government and don't say a damn word when they take all your rights and turn you into a full-fledged slave. You deserve it.

The government did it, this book proves it. Get it.

Ignore the dumb title because this book provides some very important context in a time of flag-waving empty-headedness. The author does draw many conclusions of his own, but mostly he simply corrals the best investigative reporting (much of it from major media sources), public testimony, and government documents into a coherent picture of why things went down as they did. The historical and political backstory provided is crucial to dispelling the apalling myth that we were attacked out of the blue and nothing could be done about it. The tone is incredulous and even-handed rather partisan or ideological. The facts presented in this book rocked me to my very core and left me mad as hell. (Compare the facts in this book to the 9-11 Commission Report and decide for yourself.)

This author obviously has a political and religious agenda. For anyone today to seriously believe that anyone than Muslim Arab terrorists perpetrated the most heinous terrorist incident in history is just moronic. His "proofs" are all worthless inuendo, and remind me of some of the nonsense I read on snopes.com. It's pretty amazing what some people will believe. For those reviewers who think this book is important, let alone factual, I've got this great bridge to sell you...

Don't waste your cash on this trash!

This author obviously has a political and religious agenda. For anyone today to seriously believe that anyone than Muslim Arab terrorists perpetrated the most heinous terrorist incident in history is just moronic. His "proofs" are all worthless inuendo, and remind me of some of the nonsense I read on snopes.com. It's pretty amazing what some people will believe. For those reviewers who think this book is important, let alone factual, I've got this great bridge to sell you...

Don't waste your cash on this trash!

Mr. Ahmed has written a conspiratorial digest that purports to expose the hidden-in-plain-sight dimensions of 9/11, which the American public is too deluded to understand due to the corporate media's colonization of our collective neocortex. The book's central thesis is that the evil capitalist empire has finally fallen into the hands of Evangelical and Zionist fascists (the Neocons, et al) who are out to conquer humanity in the name of Texas and Tel Aviv. It so happens that the 9/11 attacks were engineered by the Bush junta, with the possible assistance of Mosaad, in order to justify a massive military expansion into Eurasia. Mr. Ahmed, a young Bangladeshi who was born and raised in the evil empire's land of origin, the U.K. (the former evil empire), is the "executive director" of something called the "Institute for Policy and Research Development," which serves as a platform for malcontent Moslems in the West to rhetorically assault the Christian civilization which gave them a home, an education and the freedom to engage in intellectual dupery.

It is obvious that Mr. Ahmed has spent a great deal of time on Google connecting the dots between articles published in the Guardian with articles published in the New York Times and countless snippets of pseudo-information collected by "internet researchers" (9/11-ologists, if you will). After all of the disparate pieces are strung together, a grotesque mosaic of American treachery and unrivaled murderousness emerges.

Mr. Ahmed correctly points out that there were people within the U.S.'s labyrinthine intelligence communities who had indications of an impending attack on buildings in lower Manhattan by Al-Qaeda. One of the most disturbing claims in the book is that several experienced FBI agents were aware of the 9/11 plot, as confirmed by attorney David Schippers (a Republican Washington insider), yet their investigations were blocked from above and the information they had gathered ended up collecting dust on someone's desk. The book contains some intriguing "facts," many of which probably can be discredited by further investigation. There is no question that 9/11 itself proves the case for criminal negligence at the highest levels of government. However, the leap from gross negligence to complicity by the White House is unsupported by the evidence. My problem with the book is that it reeks of Mr. Ahmed's desire to take that leap thus condemning America and throwing the President into the same history bin as Hitler and Stalin. This kind of trendy paranoia has become common coin among both subversive lefties who hate capitalism and right-wing, New-World-Order types.

A much more sober source of information and analysis concerning 9/11 is America's Secret War by George Friedman. Mr. Friedman, a respected intelligence expert, explains the geopolitical chess game that is taking place between Al-Qaeda and the U.S.. He also provides a lucid narrative of U.S. security paradigms from the Cold War to the present war in Iraq.

Mr. Ahmed has written a conspiratorial digest that purports to expose the hidden-in-plain-sight dimensions of 9/11, which the American public is too deluded to understand due to the corporate media's colonization of our collective neocortex. The book's central thesis is that the evil capitalist empire has finally fallen into the hands of Evangelical and Zionist fascists (the Neocons, et al) who are out to conquer humanity in the name of Texas and Tel Aviv. It so happens that the 9/11 attacks were engineered by the Bush junta, with the possible assistance of Mosaad, in order to justify a massive military expansion into Eurasia. Mr. Ahmed, a young Bangladeshi who was born and raised in the evil empire's land of origin, the U.K. (the former evil empire), is the "executive director" of something called the "Institute for Policy and Research Development," which serves as a platform for malcontent Moslems in the West to rhetorically assault the Christian civilization which gave them a home, an education and the freedom to engage in intellectual dupery.

It is obvious that Mr. Ahmed has spent a great deal of time on Google connecting the dots between articles published in the Guardian with articles published in the New York Times and countless snippets of pseudo-information collected by "internet researchers" (9/11-ologists, if you will). After all of the disparate pieces are strung together, a grotesque mosaic of American treachery and unrivaled murderousness emerges.

Mr. Ahmed correctly points out that there were people within the U.S.'s labyrinthine intelligence communities who had indications of an impending attack on buildings in lower Manhattan by Al-Qaeda. One of the most disturbing claims in the book is that several experienced FBI agents were aware of the 9/11 plot, as confirmed by attorney David Schippers (a Republican Washington insider), yet their investigations were blocked from above and the information they had gathered ended up collecting dust on someone's desk. The book contains some intriguing "facts," many of which probably can be discredited by further investigation. There is no question that 9/11 itself proves the case for criminal negligence at the highest levels of government. However, the leap from gross negligence to complicity by the White House is unsupported by the evidence. My problem with the book is that it reeks of Mr. Ahmed's desire to take that leap thus condemning America and throwing the President into the same history bin as Hitler and Stalin. This kind of trendy paranoia has become common coin among both subversive lefties who hate capitalism and right-wing, New-World-Order types.

A much more sober source of information and analysis concerning 9/11 is America's Secret War by George Friedman. Mr. Friedman, a respected intelligence expert, explains the geopolitical chess game that is taking place between Al-Qaeda and the U.S.. He also provides a lucid narrative of U.S. security paradigms from the Cold War to the present war in Iraq.

Mr. Ahmed is a brilliant writer. He has made his case successfully and clearly, and backed it up with facts. His documentation and references were excellent and legitimate. A must read book for open minded readers. I hope that Mr. Ahmed won't be co-opted like the rest of the brilliant minds that he criticized!

This book belongs in every school and home in America! It is a well referenced look at the "mistakes" that were made before and during 9-11. I can't begin to expain how important it is to read this book! It will change the way you view 9-11 and reveal how it was possible to occur. This book is like "Farenheit 9-11" uncensored!!! It is not about conspiracy theory but it really makes you wonder when you put all the pieces of the puzzle together! Please read this book and open your mind so that we may never have a 9-11 again.

It took me quite a while to work through this book. It's densely packed with referenced material, and it tends to repeat itself time and again. While the quantity of referenced material is impressive, what Mr. Ahmed does with the material is not.

Mr. Ahmed frequently bases conclusions on circumstantial evidence. At times he makes dangerous inferences about US policy or the workings of the US government. Very disputable statements may often be found in this book preceded with "thus," "therefore" or "the fact that." For example, the "fact that" fundamentalism could not have blossomed in Afghanistan and Pakistan without the CIA. That's just one example I grabbed skimming over a random page. There are hundreds of such examples.

Mr. Ahmed's position is extremely biased. Where he can grasp any evidence, however flimsy, that may support his point, he'll present it. For example, in the section "Starving to Death and Waiting to be Killed" he claims the US and Britain's true agenda was to execute a collective punishment strategy against the Afghan people (note this section comes well after he attempts to establish the Americans and Pakistanis are to blame for the 9/11 attacks). He bases this claim on an "admission" from an admiral who used the language "the squeeze will carry on ... until they get the leadership changed." Mr. Ahmed's words are far more colorful, when he asserts that the US "effectively called for the mass slaughter of millions of Afghans." Mr. Ahmed continually equivocates the positions of individuals and American companies to that of the United States. It's notable that the admiral above who confessed to US policy was not even American.

I was quite disappointed in this book. It took a lot of time to work through it, and I had a difficult time assessing the information presented, given the extreme anti-American bias with which it was presented. While I would not recommend this book, if you decide to read it, my advice would be to focus on the extensive research Mr. Ahmed collected and use it, along with other sources, to draw your own conclusions. Consider Mr. Ahmed's statements and conclusions critically (i.e., not with irrational cynicism or acceptance). Ask yourself if more reasonable interpretations of the evidence exist. In the example above, was the British admiral accurately describing US policy? Note that Mr. Ahmed does present evidence to the contrary: a quote from Dick Gephardt indicating that the war was not a strike against the Afghan people. Mr. Ahmed chooses to believe the British admiral, and expounds upon that statement to conclude that the US called for mass slaughter of Afghans. But who is a more reliable source regarding US policy, the US House Minority Leader, or a British admiral? When asking yourself such questions as you read through this book, I think you'll conclude that you need another source.

Powerful, damning, shocking, well researched and indexed.

Ignore the whitewash surrounding the events of 9/11 and look at all the inconsistencies on display in this book.

A thinking person's alternative to Farenheit 911. Highly recommended.