Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran

New York: Crown Forum, 2005. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 392 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. In his chilling new book, New York Times bestselling author Kenneth R. Timmerman blows the lid off the greatest threat America faces: a nuclear-armed Iran that is closely allied with international terrorists and bent on destroying us. Using his exclusive access to previously classified documents, Iranian defectors and officials, and high-level sources in the U.S. government and intelligence community, Timmerman reveals that the Iranian nuclear program is far more advanced than we ve feared. Countdown to Crisis also uncovers the Iranian Islamist regime s extensive and ongoing support for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Perhaps most frightening, Timmerman documents how our intelligence community s arrogance, incompetence, and willful blindness have repeatedly kept us from dealing with the Iranian threat. And now it could be too late. In Countdown to Crisis you ll discover: The first-ever inside account of Iran s clandestine nuclear weapons program revealing how the mullahs could already have enough nuclear material for twenty to twenty-five bombs The secret locations where Iran has been sheltering bin Laden and the terrorist attacks they now are jointly planning against America and our allies How U.S. intelligence has consistently ignored warnings about Iran s secret nuclear program and how United Nations officials blew repeated chances to shut it down Stunning new evidence of Iran s involvement in the 9/11 plot including documents the CIA tried to withhold from the 9/11 Commission How an Iranian defector gave the CIA two months advance warning of a massive attack on America scheduled for September 11, 2001 but how the Agency brushed him off, even after 9/11 An insider s account of how Iran turned to North Korea for nuclear weapons assistance starting in 1992 How Iran worked on nuclear weapons hand-in-glove with the infamous A. Q. Khan network with help from Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and China How a U.S. congressman became so frustrated by the CIA s refusal to act on intelligence that bin Laden was in Iran that he contacted a bounty hunter to capture the Saudi How Iran s leaders continue to finance the insurgents in Iraq, including terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi To get the complete story on Iran s radical Islamic regime, Timmerman crisscrosses the globe, taking the reader into secret terrorist gatherings in Tehran, into tense meetings in the White House, to debriefings at an obscure CIA outpost in Azerbaijan, to diplomatic face-offs in the Kremlin, and to many other spots along the way. His extensive investigative reporting allows him to lay bare the true nature of the Iranian threat. For Americans interested in the truth about Iran, Countdown to Crisis may amount to a call for action or even a case for war. THE SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY ABOUT THE DEADLY IRANIAN THREAT Countdown to Crisis exposes the gravest threat to America: the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is targeting the United States for destruction. Investigative journalist and bestselling author Kenneth R. Timmerman taps his high-level Iranian and U.S. government sources and produces previously unpublished documents and photographs to uncover the startling truth about: Iran s covert nuclear weapons program which is further developed than any of us imagined the Islamic regime s secret alliance with Osama bin Laden and their plans for future attacks on America the devastating intelligence failures and cover-ups that have kept us from dealing with the Iranian threat The clock is ticking.