Theo Padnos Livres

An award-winning journalist's searing, extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years-a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance.

These two strikes were intended to set back al-Qaeda's operations in Yemen but, within 24 hours, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - a 23-year-old Nigerian man and one of Awlaki's followers - boarded a plane to Detroit with explosives hidden in his clothing.