On 11 September 2001, the same day the World Trade Centre and Pentagon were attacked by terrorists, a Chinese Peoples Liberation Army transport aircraft from Beijing landed in Kabul with the most important delegation the ruling Taliban had ever received. They had come to sign a contract requested by Osama bin Laden. In exchange for a promise of end to attacks by Muslim extremists in China's north-west region, the Taliban were to be provided with missile-tracking communications and air defence systems. Hours later, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded "red alert" message from Mossad's Tel Aviv headquarters that presented what he called a "worst case scenario" - that China would use a ruthless surrogate, bin Laden, to attack the United States. Using his contacts in Israel, Washington, London and Europe, Gordon Thomas reveals information about China's intentions to use the international crisis to launch itself as a superpower and become America's new major enemy.
- ISBN10 1840186143
- ISBN13 9781840186147
- Publish Date 1 January 2099 (first published 3 December 2005)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 8 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Mainstream Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 560
- Language English