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NBN FL W08 p081-120 8-6.qxd - National Book Network
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MARCH<br />
Willful Blindness<br />
Memoir of the Jihad<br />
Andrew C. McCarthy<br />
In Willful Blindness, Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back<br />
to the real beginning of the war on terror—not the atrocities<br />
of September 11, but the first bombing of the World<br />
Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively<br />
declared war on the United States.<br />
From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind<br />
sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew<br />
McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic<br />
terror. He traces the evolution of his own thinking<br />
about how best to deal with terrorism, showing how the terrorists’<br />
skill at using and abusing the U.S. legal system has led<br />
to a culture of “lawfare,” redefining war as a normal criminal<br />
issue susceptible to resolution in the courts. “Lawfare,” Mc-<br />
Carthy notes, “has become the terrorists’ best friend” and<br />
has come close to paralyzing our efforts at defending our national<br />
security. This eye-opening book by one of our leading<br />
legal journalists is sure to be widely noticed and debated.<br />
Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and<br />
a Contributor at <strong>National</strong> Review Online. From 1993<br />
through 1996, while an Assistant United States Attorney for<br />
the Southern District of New York, he led the prosecution<br />
against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman,<br />
in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting<br />
a war of urban terrorism against the United States<br />
that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Following<br />
the September 11 attacks, Mr. McCarthy supervised<br />
the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New<br />
York City. From 1999 through 2003, he was the Chief Assistant<br />
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District’s satellite office,<br />
responsible for federal law enforcement in six counties north<br />
of New York City.<br />
Mr. McCarthy is the recipient of numerous awards, including<br />
the Justice Department’s highest honors: the Attorney<br />
General’s Exceptional Service Award (1996). He has<br />
served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.<br />
He writes extensively on legal, social and political issues for<br />
<strong>National</strong> Review and Commentary, among other publications.<br />
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New Republic, <strong>National</strong> Review, USA Today,<br />
The Nation, Drudge Report, and<br />
realclearpolitics.com<br />
• Op-ed in Townhall.com and The Wall<br />
Street Journal<br />
• Top 200 Radio interviews: Laura Ingraham,<br />
Hugh Hewitt, Michael Reagan, Dennis<br />
Prager, Sean Hannity, and G. Gordon<br />
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• Author tour: New York, Los Angeles,<br />
Chicago, D.C., and Boston<br />
• <strong>National</strong> television appearances planned:<br />
Lou Dobbs Tonight, NBC Nightly News,<br />
“FOX and Friends,” Kudlow and Co.,<br />
Charlie Rose, CSPAN, FOX News Live, and<br />
CSPAN coverage<br />
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