In Study of Revenge, Laurie Mylroie engages the reader in a gripping examination of the evidence from the first World Trade
Center
attack in 1993. In the process, she uncovers links between the
bombing and the Iraqi leadership and reveals a terrifying tale of America left exposed and vulnerable following the mishandling of what had been the most ambitious terrorist attack ever attempted on U.S. soil. In his foreword to the revised edition, former CIA director R. James Woolsey explains the relevance of Mylroie's work to the events of September 11, 2001.
Mylroie is an AEI adjunct fellow and is the coauthor, with Judith Miller, of the New York Times number-one bestseller Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf. She has taught at Harvard University and the U.S. Naval War College and is the publisher of Iraq News, an online newsletter that analyzes developments in the continuing U.S. confrontation with Baghdad. This summary is adapted from Mylroie's introduction and conclusion to Study of Revenge.
In May 1994, the first group of conspirators convicted for the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing was sentenced. The defendants' goal-according to Judge Kevin Duffy-was to topple the north tower onto the south tower amid a cloud of cyanide gas that would engulf those trapped in the north tower. "That's clearly what you intended," the judge said. "If that had happened, we would have been dealing with tens of thousands of deaths