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Originally posted by soup sandwich
OK, I'm done reading it.
My initial response:
1. I hate the CIA.
2. OBL isn't some great super terrorist mastermind. He's just a figurehead and a rallying point for recruitment.
3. I'm a Dem who voted for him twice, but I gotta say Clinton dropped the ball in regard to his response after the embassy bombings (cruise missile attacks) and after the attack on the Cole (no response at all).
4. The book was a very good read.
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I'm done reading it, too. I was waiting for more people before I said much of anything, but I will say that I thought the book was much, much better at telling the bin Laden/Zawahiri side of the story than the O'Neill/Turki side of the story. Wright obviously didn't have any access to what anyone else at the FBI was doing, and he doesn't seem to have had any access at all to the CIA. Michael Schereur (sp?) makes a brief cameo -- in reality, he was running the CIA's Al Qaeda effort, and has written his own book about it (haven't read it). Wright had even less access to Saudi intelligence's doings.
Not to criticize Wright for a book he didn't write, but it's more like a history of Al Qaeda up to 2001 than what the book jackets sells it as.
