The account offered by the agent, Ali H. Soufan, is the most detailed to date by an insider concerning the American investigations of Al Qaeda and the major attacks that the group carried out, including bombings of American Embassies in East Africa and the American destroyer Cole, as well as the Sept. 11 attacks. The book is scheduled to be published Monday, with redactions to several chapters by the Central Intelligence Agency, the target of much of Mr. Soufan's criticism.

If interviewers want to stump former Vice President Dick Cheney on his book tour, they should ask him about the October 6, 2002, attack on the French oil tanker the Limburg, and what happened in the 45 minutes FBI interrogators had with Ramzi Binalshibh and another high-level al Qaeda terrorist a few weeks before that.

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan successfully interrogated captured Islamist terrorists after 9/11 without resorting to "enhanced' techniques. In a SPIEGEL interview, he revealed how he got jihadists to talk using tea and trucker magazines and explained how 9/11 could have been prevented.

We therefore recommend that U.S. individuals and businesses operating in these volatile areas take particular care over the next few days.

Tight border checks and strong ties with neighbouring security agencies play pivotal roles

On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier-when it was requested-the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some of the most important confessions from terrorists in the war against al-Qaeda-without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before, and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge.

Ali Soufan, the Lebanese-American FBI agent whose questioning of Qaeda members after 9/11 gleaned valuable intelligence - including confirmation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed was the mastermind of the attacks - reveals his face for the first time in a "60 Minutes" interview with Lara Logan to be broadcast Sunday, September 11 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

The Soufan Group is pleased to announce that Robert McFadden has joined the strategic consultancy as a Senior Vice-President. Mr. McFadden is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Counterintelligence communities, and has held several high profile leadership positions, including Special Agent in Charge, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Global Support Field Office, and Deputy Assistant Director, Counterintelligence Operations. With years of frontline experience, Mr. McFadden is recognized as an international subject matter expert on interview, interrogation, and violent extremist groups.

Though much remains to be learnt about the trend, it is clear an effective response would require a 'public- private' partnership between law enforcement agencies and the community, said Mr Borelli, who is with The Soufan Group, an international security consultancy group.

"All you have to do is review open source intelligence, and you'll see that stadiums definitely remain on the radar as far as terrorist targets," says James McGee, a former FBI terrorism supervisor and now a senior program manager for The Soufan Group and senior security consultant for The University of Southern Mississippi's National Center for Spectator Sport Safety and Security.