Great insider’s look at the events that led up to and followed 9/11.

Just started. This and watching the Power Of Nightmares on BBC1 should prove enlightening to the psychology of the world.

Wow, this is enough to scare the shit out of you. Not so much at the strength of Al Qaeda, as the rampant incompetence that has afflicted almost every effort of our government to fight them. Clarke is biased, but mainly in terms of having tunnel-vision for just his issue, ie counter-terrorism and Al Qaeda. However, he turned out to be totally right about said issue, so it gets hard to discount his criticisms of all involved. I don’t agree with him totally on methods, but I do agree that this was a very necessary clearcut through the enormous of morass of bullshit that has sprung up around the terrorism issue.

Read first chapter.

Fresh from Amazon Japan last night. I’ve already started it, and so far Clarke is NOT coming across as particularly partisan (okay, he does seem particularly pissed off at the FBI). Looks good.