Sublime

Yousef had learned the art of making bombs from a manual written by the CIA for the mujahideen to use in their struggle against the Soviets. He was given the CIA instruction booklet while attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, in 1991 or 1992.

Me and Steve, we went at McCann by ripping away what he believed most about his life, blowing it up in front of his eyes, and hoping there’d be too little of him left to hold out against us. Just like Aislinn had been planning. But when we took as much of McCann as we could, shredded him into the last thing he ever wanted to be, we left him with No

Here were the Johns and Marys of this world, trying to live civilian lives as ordinarily as the political problems here would allow them, but becoming uneasy, no longer certain of the moral correctness of the means by which our custodians of honour were fighting for the cause.

occupation were to justify terrorism, then the post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan and the Night Riders who terrorized blacks during Reconstruction—which included the military occupation of the defeated Confederacy—would be seen as freedom fighters.

“She’s been retired for years. Left the Agency soon after I did. Why do you care where she is now?” “We’re concerned about her well-being. Actually, we’re concerned about everyone who was involved with Operation Cyrano.” I can’t hide my reaction to hearing those two words. I feel the shock of it reverberate through my bones, as powerful as a concus

Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in