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Article: Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad.(Book review)
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- American Diplomacy
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- September 16, 2008
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Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad
Reviewed by Colonel James L. Abrahamson, PhD.
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy, New York and London: Encounter Books, 2008 (ISBN 978-159403213-4), vi, 352 pages, $25.95.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy led the team that successfully prosecuted Omar Abdel Rahman, "the Blind Sheikh," and 11 other jihadists for seditious conspiracy. Telling the full story of that 1995 trial required McCarthy to weave into his book four investigations and three trials--the 1990 murder of Jewish Defense League founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, the 1993 bombing at the World Trade ...