Ben Laden

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An international bestseller banned in Switzerland by the bin Laden family, this work reveals how US national security in Afghanistan was severely compromised by corporate oil interests and Saudi Arabia. The authors, Brisard and Dasquie, detail Brisard's groundbreaking intelligence report on bin Laden's financial networks, which helped shut down fraudulent Islamic charities funding terrorism. This report was presented to President George Bush by Jacques Chirac after 9/11. The book uncovers that French intelligence provided the FBI clear evidence linking the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, to Al Qaeda. Brisard first reported this to Salon magazine before FBI agent Coleen Rowley publicly stated that the investigation was stifled. John O'Neill, former head of the FBI's antiterrorism division who died in the World Trade Center, told Brisard in July 2001 that all clues to dismantling bin Laden's organization were in Saudi Arabia. Based on three years of investigation, it exposes the Clinton and Bush administrations' efforts to stabilize Afghanistan for US energy companies to build a pipeline. It highlights the secret diplomacy between the Bush administration and the Taliban from February to August 2001, including threats made through Pakistani intermediaries in July 2001 if the Taliban did not comply.