Presents a timeline and analysis of events in the history of terrorism, beginning in the 1980s and including events leading up to and following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Includes index. Includes maps of: Existing and Proposed Gas Pipelines as of 1997; Paths of the Four Hijacked Flights, and the Fighter Response; Bush's Travels in the Sarasota, Florida Region; Route of the Otis Air National Guard Fighters to New York City; Key Events of Flight 93; Route of the Langley Air Base Fighters to Washington; Travels of President Bush on Air Force One; Main Routes al-Qaeda and the Taliban Escape U.S. and Northern Alliance Forces.

Foreword / Peter Lance -- Introduction -- Part I. Before 9/11. 1. Warning signs -- 2. Insider trading and other foreknowledge -- 3. Counterterrorism before 9/11 -- 4. The hunt for bin Laden -- 5. Pipeline politics -- Part II. The terrorists. 6. Al-Qaeda in Germany -- 7. Hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Kalid Almihdhar -- 8. The other hijackers -- 9. Kalid Shaikh Mohammed -- 10. Zacarias Moussaoui -- 11. Nabil al-Marabh -- Part III. Geopolitics and 9/11. 12. The Pakistani -- 13. Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family -- 14. Israel -- 15. Iraq -- 16. U.S. dominance in central Asia and the world -- Part IV. The attacks. 17. The day of 9/11 -- Part V. The post 9/11 world. 18. Post-9/11 Afghanistan -- 19. Post-9/11 investigations -- 20. Other post-9/11 events -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photography credits -- Index.