The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House,
Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret
involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House,
Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret
involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.; Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the
Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed
senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story
of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in
Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Laden's rise, traces how
he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the
US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American
intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in
the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.
