1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI--the Untold Story

by Peter Lance

Book Overview

1000 Years for Revenge is a groundbreaking investigative work that uncovers startling evidence of how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060597259
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A MUST read for everyone interested in terrorism and politics.

As I read some of the reviews of people specifically one regarding David Ray Griffin books compared to this I must wonder about their motives. Although I have not read his books I read a few summaries, and concluded on some of the differences between them. David Ray Griffin seems to put all the blame and cover up on the Bush administration; it also seems to claim that there were explosives throughout the towers causing them to come down and not just the planes. It also claims that the pentagon plane never was a plane. So how do you compare; Peter Lance doesn't claim that the Clinton administration or Bush Administration knowingly lied, it does however criticize both administrations for not looking into things like they should have. Obviously the Clinton Administration takes a harder hit here because they were in office from 93 - 00 when most of the planning took place. (yes I know it is hard for many bush haters not to put all the blame on Bush but this attack was planned well before Jan 1, 2001). Peter Lance goes into extreme detail regarding the people involved in the 93 bombing and the people hunting/prosecuting them. There were so many things that were missed on all levels of our government from local police to the FBI to the white house. He does focus on the FBI's failure more than many other law enforcement because they are the group involved here at home. There are no conspiracy theories, the 93 world trade center attack happened; we know who did it. The USS Cole was attacked, Khobar Towers, the 2 embassies in Africa and 9/11. To suggest that some or any of these were committed or covered up by our goverment is insane. Peter Lance details that there are people out there that are making their living trying to kill Americans and their allies. He gives us names, faces actual details. A history lesson in New York City law enforcment. There have been numerous books written about many of the same poeple or by the same people that Peter Lance mentions; John O'neil, Bob Baer etc... Read those books many say the same thing. SO is everyone on the government payroll covering up the White House Empires???? This book is based in facts that occured up to 9/11; it gives details and criticizes many people and administrations for not looking past the tips of their noses. It isn't based on conspiracy theories and is a great book. This book should be read by anyone wanting to know how inadequate our domestic law enforcment is at handling the new terrorist threat.

Reads Like a Best Selling Novel

How could it be that the United States of America, a world super-power, had missed the terrorist trail to 9/11? In "1,000 Years for Revenge" Peter Lance uncovers facts, connects events, and discloses a pattern of FBI behavior that together paves a glaring path to the tragedy of 9/11. His passionate presentation of material is captivating and frightening. But it is Lance's gift as a compelling storyteller that makes this book read like a best selling novel. Two real American heroes are the intimate human thread around which the story unfolds and gives this book heart. Further a glossy paged timeline in the middle of the book, provides a brilliant method of distinguishing all the players by identifying each with their picture, each time their name appears. For those readers not familiar with Middle Eastern names, like me, it is an easy way to grasp the continuity of the persons over time. We should all know this story and Peter Lance tells it well.

Insightful, Educational, Probing Investigative Journalism

As an international attorney and former INTERPOL consultant, I found Peter Lance's book, 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE, the best-written and most fully documented account of the terrorist attacks on the United States that I have read. INTERPOL should hire this author as a consultant on international terrorist matters.

Excellent Research

I had not realized there was more material to mine in the story of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 but Peter Lance hit a motherlode in his recounting of the story of FBI agent Nancy Floyd and her relationship with Emad Salem, the FBI informant who could have prevented that attack. The story of Floyd and Salem is infuriating as it is clear that more senior FBI officials sabotaged what could have been Floyd and Salem's important contribution to breaking up the cell that carried out the 1993 Trade Center attack.Lance's book is very well researched, well organized in its narrative, and a real page turner that reads like a fast paced book of fiction. Lance does not descend into political point-scoring, but he does make a compelling case that many opporunites were missed to root out al Qaeda in the United States. In my estimation certain officials in the FBI did have a very strong sense of the threat posed by al Qaeda. Lance nonetheless makes a strong case that the US government missed a multitude of opporttunities to extirpate al Qaeda in the United States going back as far as 1989.

While We Wait...

As the Chief of Cardiology at a major university medical center in NYC, I am part of a Physician Emergency Response Team, a network of critical crisis medical personnel organized to handle massive emergencies as best we can. Thousands of medical personnel were in place at the highest alert level within minutes of those imcomprehensible blasts on 9/11/01. Some sped as close as they could get to the site, while others prepared the O.R.'s as best we could. Less than 2 miles from the World Trade Center, it took us a couple of hours for it to sink in. No injured were being brought in. We found the same to be the case at four other hospitals within 1/2 mile radius. Not a single person. By early afternoon, I found myself absurdly beginning to pray for something, even a body part, something to prove that my fellow New Yorkers, the mothers and fathers of the children who lived next door hadn't disintegrated into ash. We continued to wait, not leaving once for 14 days and 14 nights, although the reality became apparent long before that. Incredibly, there were so few survivors that our hospital was simply not needed. We were just too far from the site to offer help to the relative few who could be helped.Not fearing the inevitable is absurdly reckless. We are in a state of seige and I for one am grateful to have had Peter Lance put things in perspective in his book "1000 Years For Revenge". His extensive investigation is the most illuminating document that I've read on the subject so far. The revelations he's uncovered in the process of his investigation are terrifying. He writes with a clarity and precision that is remarkablehe in the process of trying to make sense of what should never have happened.The US goverment and as the author points out, especially the FBI, have dropped the ball. They have consistently miscalled the opponent and understandably, we citizens, who for so long have enjoyed a level of invulnerability, find it less frightening to look away. As Peter Lance warns, it is just a matter of where and when. Anyone who feels complacent about their safety is simply wrong. Each of us has an obligation to expect that our government take responsibility for the safety of its citizens. Demanding anything less, makes us responsible as well for contributing to what will inevitably be nothing less than the devastation of human kind.