Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him

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Harper Collins, 21 nov. 2006 - 604 pages
This is the story of the most dangerous triple-agent in US history. Peter Lance, author of the highly acclaimed 1000 Years for Revenge and Cover Up, returns to uncover the story of Ali Mohamed, a trusted security advisor of Osama bin Laden who hoodwinked the United States for more than a decade. As Lance reveals for this first time, this one man served in a series of high-security position within the United States security establishment, as a Special Forces advisor, FBI informant, and CIA operative, while simultaneously helping orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that led to 9/11. In October 2000, after tricking three U.S. intelligence agencies for almost two decades, Ali Mohamed appeared in handcuffs and a blue prison jumpsuit in a Federal District courtroom on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he pleaded guilty five times. His crimes included brokering terror summits, financing an attack on two Black Hawk helicopters, training jihadis in improvised bomb building and the creation of secret cells. And yet, for decades Mohamed had lived the life of a Silicon Valley computer executive. How did this evildoer move in and out of and around the U.S.' is just one of the questio Leakgate, Mohamed appears at nearly every crucial turn of America's terror probes. An important final piece to the 9/11 investigation, Triple Cross penetrates Mohamed's secret past and the dark reaches of Al Qaeda to reveal the danger that still threatens America and its internal security.
 

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Part III
315
The TenMonth Dance
317
Operation Able Danger
330
Obliterating the Dots
344
Able Danger Part Two
352
The Secret Witness
363
Second to Last Chance
372
Finally Mohamed Speaks
382

In Cold Blood
87
Incident in Rome
94
The Great One
101
Ground Zero Part One
110
Bin Ladens Copilot
120
Part II
133
Another Alias
135
The Second Front
147
Losing the al Qaeda Key
157
Hiding behind the Wall
170
The Third Plot
181
Red Crescent Tour
194
The CoverUp Begins
205
The bin Laden Squad
218
How to Blow Up Airplanes
231
Bojinka Fulfilled
241
Crossing the Line
252
Victory Declared
260
Tapping the Cell
268
Third and Final Warning
281
The Spy Who Wasnt There
296
The Hoax and the Scam
307
The Briefing in Bagram
391
The Public Whitewash
402
Explosives the FBI Missed
415
Four Counts of Homicide
430
Why Any of This Matters
439
The 911 Cold Case
456
Epilogue
464
Acknowledgments
485
Notes
491
Appendix I
545
Appendix II
547
Appendix III
548
Appendix IV
549
Appendix V
551
Appendix VI
554
Appendix VII
567
Appendix VIII
568
Appendix IX
572
Appendix X
574
Appendix XI
576
Index
577
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Peter Lance is the author of three previous works of investigative journalism, 1000 Years for Revenge, Cover Up, and Triple Cross. A former correspondent for ABC News, he covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. Among his awards are the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize and the Sevellon Brown Award from the Associated Press. He lives in California.

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