Marwan: The Autobiography of a 9/11 Terrorist

How did an Egyptian city planner, a Yemeni religious fanatic, a boy from the United Arab Emirates who worshipped sex, not Allah, and a young studentof aircraft design who went to a Christian school in Lebanon - fourvery different men with very different ideas - get involved in flying the 9/11 planes? How did the plot develop, and who developed it? "Marwan," a novel by Aram Schefrin, puts the reported facts togetherand fills in the details with fiction - from the group's first comingtogether in Hamburg, Germany, to the moments before the jets they wereto hijack took off. You'll come to know the participants, and how theywere motivated, what their personal lives were like and the roles theyplayed in the plan. You will learn to know them as people - not simplyas "terrorists"- because, as the author sees it, you have to understandyour enemies if you want to defend yourself.