Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Analysis of The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. The quote served to aid the direction of the hijackers promulgating that it did not matter where one is, death will always find a person. The book is based on more than 400 interviews including the former counterterrorism chief officer of the white house, reporters, and close friends to Osama bin Laden. It gives the reader an intense view of the tragic event that occurred in September 2011 when the World Trade Centre was brought to the ground, an event that is historically sweeping to date (Wright 10).

Despite the broad outline of the 9/11 story, Wright creates a narrative story enacting all the principal players in the incidence such as the F.B.I’s counterterrorism former chief officer, Osama bin Laden and his deputy al-Zawahiri. The catching narrative outline described to as “the road to 9/11” depicts the intertwining of the various public, personal, political and private parties that enabled the tragic event to occur. According to his book, Wright suggests that vision and charisma amongst few individuals in the society shaped the nature with a clear depiction of the increased contest between the West and the Islam community (Wright 17). This resembles the historical shifting of tectonic plates between the two groups based on differences between the two cultures. This led to the emergence of the Al-Qaeda group which was led by Osama bin Laden. Wright notes that bin Laden played a crucial role in holding the group together during the dark times where they had been exiled and continuously under the radar of the American troops planning his elimination. His deputy, Al-Zawahiri, promoted his personal vision that only violence could be the solution to change history (Wright 21).

According to Wright (67), the ill-fated event that occurred on September 2011 based on the attack by Al-Qaeda was not inevitable. It was a situation of bad luck based on the confluence of various decision-making and encounter process trying to stop the tragic event from happening. Al-Qaeda’s success was also supplemented by the existing differences between the F.B.I and the C.I.A. officials (Wright 27).