GREAT podcast. I listened to it several times:
Lawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.
His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them.
Download File – 24.3 MB or Listen To This Podcast – CBC’s The Best of Ideas Podcast
Or if you have time and money to spare, get the book:
Rick McCharles 
Can you get me the Coles notes?
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