TY - BOOK AU - Wright,Lawrence TI - The looming tower : : Al-Qaeda's road to 9/11 SN - 9780141029351 U1 - 363.325 23 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Jihad KW - The miracles KW - Paradise N2 - A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States ER -