The 1993 World Trade Center bombing : foresight and warning / Peter Caram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caram, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Center Bombing, New York, N.Y., 1993.

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 147 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Janus, 2001.

Summary:

The World Trade Center was both a great engineering feat and a potent symbol. It was also, according to Peter Caram, a security shambles for almost all of its existence. Mr Caram, until recently a detective sergeant and anti-terrorist officer at the World Trade Center, with experience of airport security, has some harsh criticisms to make of the lapses which allowed the 1993 bombing to take place, a precursor and unheeded warning of the 2001 disaster.

Completed before this cataclysmic event, the book gives an insider's personal perspective on Port Authority attitudes and of the mismanagement of security functions at the World Trade Center. No one there, Mr Caram claims, was seriously interested in the resentment of US policy in the Middle East, in the mindset of Islamic fundamentalists, or even in expressed threats from dedicated terrorists. Mr Caram, himself having an Arab -- American background, paints an indignant but well-informed picture of the situation prior to the attack in 1993. He gives chilling evidence to show that the terrorists regarded the 1993 bombing as a bungled job which needed completion.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Reason for Panic 1

Chapter 2 Indifference or Ignorance 10

Chapter 3 Understanding and Adversary 19

Chapter 4 The Seeds of Discontent 52

Chapter 5 The Perpetrators 60

Chapter 6 My Investigative Background 72

Chapter 7 Terrorist Targeting 83

Chapter 8 The Security Study 100

Chapter 9 The Port Authority's Dysfunctionality 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

185756586X

OCLC:

59471021