Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and Bin Laden's Final Plot Against America
Description
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations, a breathtaking race to avert a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil. In Enemies Within Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism and intelligence in America through the pursuit of Najibullah Zazi, a terrorist bomber who trained under one of bin Laden's most trusted deputies. Zazi and his coconspirators represented America's greatest fear: a terrorist cell operating inside America. Apuzzo and Goldman lift the veil of secrecy to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of our counterterrorism measures. This real-life spy story--uncovered in previously unpublished secret NYPD documents and interviews with intelligence sources--shows that while many of these programs are more invasive than ever, they are often counterproductive at best. Six months after the 9/11 attacks, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly initiated a straightforward yet audacious antiterrorist plan to be implemented in the Big Apple. The NYPD would dispatch a vast network of undercover officers and informants--known as "mosque crawlers" and "rakers"--into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations in mosques and community centers. Police amassed data on innocent people, often for their religious and political beliefs. But when it mattered most, these strategies failed to identify the most imminent threats. Enemies Within tackles the tough questions about the effectiveness of the measures we take to protect ourselves from real and perceived threats. Its shocking details about the tactics and activities of the NYPD will be headline news and reveal what it really takes to hunt down terrorists in America.
Product Details
Price
$29.95
$27.85
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Publish Date
September 03, 2013
Dimensions
5.3 X 0.6 X 7.5 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
MP3 CD
EAN/UPC
9781482944709
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Adam Goldman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times. He has previously worked for the The Washington Post, the Associated Press investigative team, and newspapers in Virginia and Alabama. He lives in Washington, DC.
Matt Apuzzo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times. He previously worked as an Associated Press investigative reporter for more than a decade, focusing primarily on national security and intelligence matters.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins's Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.