Fewer than forty days after Bill Clinton became President, a truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center -- the first strike in the terrorist attack on the U.S. and its people abroad. So began an eight-year duel, fought by proxy and bomb, between Osama bin Laden and Clinton -- a war fought without public support or knowledge.Award-winning journalist Richard Miniter conducted hundreds of interviews with key figures, including Clinton's first and second National Security Advisors, dozens of FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency officials, and the State and Defense Departments. The result is a riveting narrative full of revelations, including:
-- Why the duel had to be kept secret
-- How Clinton shattered bin Laden's operations for almost a year by ordering cruise missile attacks on al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan
-- Clinton's finest hour, simultaneously foiling fourteen plots to kill Americans during the millennium celebrations
-- How the Taliban's secret offer to turn over bin Laden was blocked by some of Clinton's advisorsMiniter explains why Clinton's efforts ultimately failed in the face of feuding bureaucrats, incompetent political appointees, a Republican-led Congress, a rudderless CIA, and an increasingly hostile press. The Duel is a truly gripping read -- as well as a slice of history of critical importance to Clinton's presidential record and President Bush's ongoing war on terrorism.
- ISBN10 0743242912
- ISBN13 9780743242912
- Publish Date 25 March 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English