The Cell, John Miller
The Cell, John Miller
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The Cell
Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it

Author: John Miller, Michael Stone, Chris Mitchell

Narrator: John Miller

Abridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2002


Synopsis

In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden and al Qaeda, to become Chief of Security at the World Trade Center. John O'Neill died on that awful day. The FBI's O'Neill, along with Neil Herman, reporter John Miller and very few others, had been on bin Laden's trail for years. To them, he had long been considered the most dangerous man on the planet.
In The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, John Miller, an award-winning journalist and co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, along with veteran reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, takes us back more than ten years to the birth of the terrorist cell that later metastasized into Qaeda's New York operation.
This remarkable audiobook offers a firsthand account of what it is to be a police officer, an FBI agent or a reporter obsessed with a case few people will take seriously. The Cell contains a first-person account of Miller's face-to-face meeting with bin Laden and provides the first complete treatment to piece together what led to the events of 9/11, ultimately delivering the disturbing answer to the question: why, with all the information the intelligence community had, was no one able to stop the September 11 attacks?

About The Author

John Miller is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and co-host of ABC's 20/20 with Barbara Walters, and one of the few Western reporters ever to have interviewed Osama bin Laden. He lives in New York City. This is his first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny.p on December 22, 2012

A gripping account of the evolution of the counter intelligence agencies and people who have been in pursuit of al Qaeda since the early 1990s. Miller takes on the responsibility of answering the most basic yet complicated questions to come of the 9/11 attacks: "how could we have let this happen?" A......more

Goodreads review by Jon on October 25, 2016

An excellent analysis of a systemic failure that involves too many politically mi nded agency heads and basic incompetence from the White House Not much has changed and in the word of our next President, what difference does it make to them. Politics over protection and performance.......more

Goodreads review by Ankur on September 02, 2015

One of the best non fiction I've read in a long long time. A book which scores equal points for crisp narrative, information, in-depth analysis and commentary on events. One after the other, the chapters unfold the story of how 9/11 was a disaster which could have been avoided or atleast the damage......more

Goodreads review by Annie on October 13, 2013

Amazing book. The author clearly showed both the dogged determination to track down terrorists, to act on information obtained and the bureaucratic nightmare that allowed turf battles, power struggles, political correctness and disinterest to prevail. September 11, 2001 could have been prevented. It......more

Goodreads review by Erik on April 24, 2013

Three-four years after the event I start reading the books appearing about 9-11. Meanwhile, at work, our IT director, not a political guy, tells me about the film Loose Change and I pick up that and the 9-11 Commission Report. Watch the first, read part (yawn) of the second (it's mostly about preven......more