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Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker

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September 11, 2001. Almost everything seemed to go as the terrorists intended. Almost. Flight 93--which crashed not on the Capitol or the White House, but in a Pennsylvania field--was one terrorist shy of the other flights. The brave Americans who rose up that day against the hijackers were aided by a man they never met and whose story has never been written. His name is Jose Melendez-Perez. This book tells his story. As Michael Smerconish recounts in riveting detail in "The Fifth Hijacker," more than a month earlier a young Saudi national had arrived at Orlando International Airport on a flight from London. He didn't speak English, and his customs paperwork was blank except for his name: Mohamed al-Kahtani. He had a one-way ticket. Soon, INS agent Melendez-Perez was called to the scene. To others, al-Kahtani seemed like a befuddled tourist eager to see Disney World. At risk to his job for the appearance of racial profiling, Melendez-Perez--drawing on his training "and" his instinct--sent al-Kahtani packing back to Dubai. Melendez-Perez changed history that day. But he is not alone. In addition to telling his story and that of al-Kahtani--who was later captured in Afghanistan and sent to Guantanamo Bay--"The Fifth Hijacker" examines the quick thinking of other Americans who faced fanatics; for example, the Washington State border inspector whose gut told her something wasn't right about the would-be millennium bomber. Smerconish further looks at the latest technologies that complement a border inspector's instincts. And he poses tough questions to experts from the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security. Most pointedly: Have we learned from the example of Jose Melendez-Perez? In 2009, the Obama administration will be reviewing the prospects of prosecuting al-Kahtani and other Guantanamo detainees effectively in federal courts; military charges against al-Kahtani were previously dropped out of concern that parts of his interrogation met the legal definition of torture. The White House has pledged to close Guantanamo by January 2010--so major announcements regarding the prosecution and transferral of detainees can be expecting in the months beforehand.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781599215167
  • Publisher: Lyons Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker
  • Width: 147 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1599215160
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2010
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 205
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 431 gr


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