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The long war.(The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11)(Book review)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 480 pp., $27.95)
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WHATEVER may cause Islamic terrorism, it is certainly not Islam. That is a central message of The Looming Tower, an often riveting but flawed contribution to the surfeit of post-9/11 analyses and histories of Osama bin Laden's international terror network.
At its best--which is often, but not often enough--this book by The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright provides a welcome departure from the arid, encyclopedic tendencies of this overcrowded field. Generally, this is a coherent, exhaustively researched history of the essential ...
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