Enemies Within, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
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Enemies Within
Inside the NYPDs Secret Spying Unit and bin Ladens Final Plot against America

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2013


Synopsis

Two Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations, a breathtaking race to avert a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil. InEnemies WithinMatt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism and intelligence in America through the pursuit of Najibullah Zazi, a terrorist bomber who trained under one of bin Ladens most trusted deputies. Zazi and his coconspirators represented Americas greatest fear: a terrorist cell operating inside America.Apuzzo and Goldman lift the veil of secrecy to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of our counterterrorism measures. This real-life spy storyuncovered in previously unpublished secret NYPD documents and interviews with intelligence sourcesshows that while many of these programs are more invasive than ever, they are often counterproductive at best. Six months after the 9/11 attacks, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly initiated a straightforward yet audacious antiterrorist plan to be implemented in the Big Apple. The NYPD would dispatch a vast network of undercover officers and informantsknown as mosque crawlers and rakersinto Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations in mosques and community centers. Police amassed data on innocent people, often for their religious and political beliefs. But when it mattered most, these strategies failed to identify the most imminent threats. Enemies Withintackles the tough questions about the effectiveness of the measures we take to protect ourselves from real and perceived threats. Its shocking details about the tactics and activities of the NYPD will be headline news and reveal what it really takes to hunt down terrorists in America.

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