Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI

By: Peter Lance

Narrated by: John Pruden

This is the story of the most dangerous triple-agent in US history. Peter Lance, author of the highly acclaimed 1000 Years for Revenge and Cover Up, returns to uncover the story of Ali Mohamed, a trusted security advisor of Osama bin Laden who hoodwinked the United States for more than a decade.

As Lance reveals for this first time, this one man served in a series of high-security position within the United States security establishment, as a Special Forces advisor, FBI informant, and CIA operative, while simultaneously helping orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that led to 9/11. In October 2000, after tricking three US intelligence agencies for almost two decades, Ali Mohamed appeared in handcuffs and a blue prison jumpsuit in a Federal District courtroom on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he pleaded guilty five times. His crimes included brokering terror summits, financing an attack on two Black Hawk helicopters, training jihadis in improvised bomb building, and the creation of secret cells. And yet, for decades Mohamed had lived the life of a Silicon Valley computer executive. How this evildoer moved in and out of and around the US is just one of the questions answered. From the Able Danger scandal of the Clinton Administration to today's CIA Leakgate, Mohamed appears at nearly every crucial turn of America's terror probes.

An important final piece to the 9/11 investigation, Triple Cross penetrates Mohamed's secret past and the dark reaches of Al Qaeda to reveal the danger that still threatens America and its internal security.

©2006 Peter Lance (P)2011 HarperCollinsPublishers

Critic reviews

"A chilling account of a killer who slipped through the hands of a daft justice system…. Triple Cross chronicles one of the most vicious spies of our time." ( Toronto Sun)

Triple truth

Being of rather ancient age I remember where I was and the following hour running thru the office building and trying to clear three upper floors from the seventh being adjacent to the LA airport. I was in early. I had no time to explain. I was glad to read this great book. I knew something was wrong. How could we be so blind. Yes the final words hit hard. And my sister was in Iraq from being out and around to being confined to the green zone and wearing armor to going to catch a plane in an armored vehicle. If we don’t have the truth and be hypnotized by fake news. I don’t know every historian professional or hobby should read this book. I know the courage and dedication to construct this gift thank you audible. You don’t have enough stars for this one.

US failure/refusal to learn its history 9/11

more to circle back on. I have to find another book I bought that covers details we forgot about terrorism in this country before 911

i kinda believe it

kinda crazy, i need to check if the facts are true or not . and i would like to cross check maybe in feture . but this book the is slam in the face of usa intelligence

Top Shelf Investigative Journalism

Truly excellent journalism work. No real surprise to find out the keystone cop way the FBI handled the suspects before every single terrorist event to date. What is surprising is the depth of depravity the feds will go to try and cover up their buffoonery. Generations of Americans know the feds are good at one thing, and one thing only, catching bank robbers (most of the time). Why they are allowed to build big cases like Organized crime, terrorism, home grown terrorists, religious groups, etc. etc. is beyond anyone's guess. They are not selective, they will drop the ball and make a complete mess of them all. The FBI should be shut down and a new government agency formed like the FEderal Bureau of Recycling. They can go through everyone's garbage like they are already experienced at and issue tickets to those who don't comply with compulsory recycling laws.

SO WE BLEW IT.... NOW WHAT?

The upsetting news isn't that disfunctional intelligence agencies failed to connect the dots, or even take the dots seriously but rather that they may not have learned anything. Since this book was written, we got bin Laden and we've been fairly safe, more or less, but as Rumsfeld said it's the unknown unknowns that haunt us.
I tend to think that the worst over-reactions are fazing out (the shoe removing at airports) but maybe I'm overly optimistic. I hope the FBI learned something and I hope they are doing a better job but maybe that's overly optimistic too.