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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began
working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council,
where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the
rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden
and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the
appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the
grand scale. More than a year before September 11, 2001, they began writing The
Age of Sacred Terror to sound the alarm for a nation that had not recognized the
gravest threat of our time.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">One of their book’s original goals has
remained: to provide the insights to understand an enemy unlike any seen in
living memory—one with an extraordinary ability to detect weakness and exploit
it, one with a determination to inflict catastrophic damage, one that will not
be deterred. But after September 11, a second, equally crucial goal was added:
to understand how America let its defenses down, how warnings went unheeded,
and how key parts of the government failed at vital tasks. The Age of Sacred
Terror also describes the road ahead, where the terrorists will look to draw
strength, and what the United States must do, at home and abroad, to stop them.
For a year after the attacks that redefined terrorism and devastated the
public’s sense of security, America has been searching for answers about those
responsible for one of the darkest days in our history and explanations for the
glaring gaps in our defenses. The Age of Sacred Terror provides both, with
unique authority. It is the book that Americans must read to understand the
foremost challenge we face.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>



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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Daniel
Benjamin </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born on 16 October 1961 in Stamford, Connecticut,
United State. He is an American diplomat and journalist, and was the
Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from
2009 to 2012, appointed by Secretary Clinton. He was Berlin bureau chief for
The Wall Street Journal and has been a foreign correspondent for Time. He holds
degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>



