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    Disruption
    Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History

    Aki J. Peritz (Author)

    9781640126466

    Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2025

    410 pages, 20 photographs, 2 maps, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.612 kg

    “[A] gripping account of a complex and ultimately successful counterterrorism investigation.”-Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
    "Some of the measures put in place since 9/11, as inconvenient as they may be, have undoubtedly saved lives. We might still debate their usefulness and legality, but we should do so with a full understanding of their results. Disruption is a valuable contribution to that understanding."-Samuel Sweeney, Wall Street Journal
    "An outstanding contribution to the literature of terrorism and counterterrorism. "-Kirkus Reviews, starred
    "Readers will gain new appreciation for what it takes to stop the next terrorist attack."-Publishers Weekly
    "In the summer of 2006, the British security services, with the assistance of the CIA, foiled what would have been the most devastating terrorist attack since 9/11: an al-Qaida plot to detonate bombs on seven transatlantic commercial flights, which would have resulted in over 3,000 deaths. Disruption is Peritz's meticulous, fascinating history of this plot, from the radicalization of the perpetrators to their sentencing in a British courtroom."-Christian Science Monitor
    “A fascinating read. There are secrets in this book even I didn’t know.”-Gen. Michael V. Hayden, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency
    “This operation remains the gold standard for how America and Great Britain came together to crush the greatest conspiracy since 9/11. Disruption knocks it out of the park.”-Fran Townsend, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
    “Disruption is a deeply researched and reported examination of a plot by largely Britain-based al Qa’ida supporters who hoped to put suicide bombers on at least a half dozen tarns-Atlantic flights in 2006. . . . The best part of the story is the extraordinary detail [Peritz] provides on what the U.K. dubbed ‘Operation Overt.’ . . . Disruption is full of hard to believe (but true) stories.”-Bill Harlow, The Cipher Brief
    "Disruption is an engrossing page-turner."-David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express

    Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
    Neave Book Prize shortlist

    Al-Qaeda did not stop after 9/11. Its reign of terror continued with bombings and mayhem across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. But its frustration grew as the group failed to fundamentally undermine America and its allies.

    Five years later the time was ripe for another spectacular mega-plot. Fresh from masterminding the London Underground carnage, one veteran operative set in motion a new operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean-and kill thousands of people in the process. Disruption tells the story of that conspiracy and the heroic efforts by the intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain, and Pakistan to uncover and crush it. From the streets of London to the training camps of Pakistan to the corridors of power in Washington DC, the story unfolds with murders, double-crosses, probes, jailbreaks, and explosions. Former counterterrorism analyst Aki J. Peritz brings the story to life with vivid imagery, interviews with top intelligence officials, and never-before-seen declassified documents. Disruption is the not-to-be-missed account of the race to stop a terrorist conspiracy that would have remade our world-forever.
     

    List of Illustrations
    List of Major Characters
    List of Abbreviations
    Author’
    s Note
    1. The Killer beside You
    2. Baker’
    s Boy
    3. Triple A
    4. Recruits
    5. Ali’
    s Evolution
    6. Incident on the Tube
    7. Bang/Fizz
    8. The Rosewater Solution
    9. Glimmers
    10. The Dilemma
    11. Rendezvous in Lloyd Park
    12. Pattern of Life
    13. Wedding Videos
    14. Probe
    15. “
    Today’
    s Date Is September 12, 2001”

    16. Sarwar’
    s Hole
    17. Transatlantic Tensions
    18. Skin Infection
    19. Our Citizens, Our Planes
    20. It Fell out of My Pocket
    21. The Railway Crossing
    22. Fellowship Is Life
    23. Scramble
    24. The System Worked?
    25. Rashid Rauf’
    s Second Chance
    26. The Twisting Road
    27. A Fine Balance
    Acknowledgments
    Appendix 1: Codenames and Nicknames
    Appendix 2: Operations
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
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