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Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy (Encounter, 256 pp., $25.95)

EIGHT years before the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Islamic jihadists sent America a wake-up call that most of us slept through. On February 26, 1993, a Ryder van containing a 1,400-pound urea-nitrate bomb exploded in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six, injuring over a thousand, and inflict-ing half a billion dollars’worth of damage. As the subsequent investigation would reveal, a cell of jihadists living for several years in New York had executed the attack and was planning others against the U.N. building, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and the New York headquarters of the FBI.

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Bruce S. Thornton

Mr. Thornton is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy (Encounter, 256 pp., $25.95)

EIGHT years before the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Islamic jihadists sent America a wake-up call that most of us slept through. On February 26, 1993, a Ryder van containing a 1,400-pound urea-nitrate bomb exploded in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six, injuring over a thousand, and inflict-ing half a billion dollars’worth of damage. As the subsequent investigation would reveal, a cell of jihadists living for several years in New York had executed the attack and was planning others against the U.N. building, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and the New York headquarters of the FBI.