Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America - The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing [Hardcover]

Jim Dwyer (Author), Deidre Murphy (Author), Peg Tyre (Author), David Kocieniewski (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1994 | ISBN-10: 0788151363 | ISBN-13: 978-0788151361

An in-depth account of the bombing of the World Trade Center provides a close-up look at the Islamic fundamentalist conspiracy behind the terrorist attack and a revealing expose+a7 of the bungling of America's security agencies in preventing the attack. 50,000 first printing.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

On February 26, 1993, a 1200-pound bomb exploded in the garage of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, killing six, injuring over a thousand and causing millions of dollars in damage. The authors, reporters who covered the story for New York Newsday, use interviews with confidential sources, NYPD reports and trial testimony to develop their fast-paced narrative. They describe the assembling of the bomb in a New Jersey warehouse, the explosion itself, the rescue effort and the detective work that led to the arrest of Islamic fundamentalists for perpetrating the first major terrorist act on American soil. The book includes in-depth portraits of the bombers, including Mohammed Saleh, who was captured while trying to recover the deposit on the rental van used in the bombing, and Emad Salem, the FBI informant whose hidden mike picked up incriminating statements by the conspirators. The trial of the four accused, lasting from September 1993 to February 1994-reported here in detail-resulted in guilty verdicts for all. Photos.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

Dwyer and three reporters who covered the World Trade Center bombing for New York Newsday provide a detailed and colorful account of the conspiracy that made the bombing possible. The authors put the bombing in the context of the attack on commuters near the CIA headquarters in Virginia, the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Manhattan two years earlier, and the planned attacks on the Statue of Liberty and United Nations. Though the story will appeal to a general audience, scholars and specialists on political violence will likely judge the account too fictionalized to be trusted. It is a compelling story nonetheless.
William L. Waugh, Georgia State Univ., Atlanta
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0788151363
• ISBN-13: 978-0788151361
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,576,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best background book on 9/11, October 27, 2008

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This review is from: Two Seconds Under the World:Terror Comes to America-The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing (Hardcover)

If you want to understand the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, READ THIS BOOK. If any debate over 9/11 does not connect the dots to the first World trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993, it probably is not worth having.