Author's Note xv
Part I: Hubris
Chapter 1 Holy Tuesday
3(8)
Chapter 2 Explaining 9/11
11(25)
Chapter 3 Blinking Red
36(15)
Chapter 4 Kicking Ass
51(17)
Chapter 5 The Great Escape
68(18)
Chapter 6 The Destruction of the Base
86(9)
Chapter 7 The Gloves Came Off
95(26)
Chapter 8 Home Front: The First Bush Term
121(10)
Chapter 9 Building the Case for War with Iraq
131(22)
Chapter 10 The War of Error
153(21)
Chapter 11 Almost Losing the War the United States Thought It Had Won
174(23)
Chapter 12 Al-Qaeda 2.0
197(17)
Chapter 13 Al-Qaeda's Quixotic Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction
214(19)
Part II: Nemesis?
Chapter 14 The United States of Jihad
233(14)
Chapter 15 Pakistan: The New Base
247(19)
Chapter 16 The Fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Rise of an Iraqi State
266(31)
Chapter 17 The Jihad Within
297(6)
Chapter 18 The End of the "War on Terror"?
303(6)
Chapter 19 Obama's War
309(26)
Chapter 20 The Long Hunt
335(16)
Note on Sources 351(2)
Interviewees 353(4)
Notes 357(80)
Bibliography 437(16)
Acknowledgments 453(4)
Index 457