Jihad in Brooklyn

The NYPD Raid That Stopped America's First Suicide Bombers

Author  Samuel M. Katz
Jihad in Brooklyn

The true story of a potentially devastating terrorist plot in New York City—and the heroes who risked their lives to prevent it.
 
On the morning of July 31, 1997, two young Palestinian men living in Brooklyn, New York, were prepared to sacrifice themselves as martyrs to their bloody cause. Their plan—to board a subway filled with commuters, wait until the train was traveling through the tunnel under the East River, and then detonate a shrapnel-covered explosive belt they had built in their tenement apartment. The attack would have killed hundreds, possibly even thousands, while sending the city—and the country—into a state of panic.
 
This is the inspiring, startling, and frightening true story of how the NYPD learned of…