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Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 259 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"In The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Fawaz Gerges, known widely for his expertise on radical ideologies, including jihadism, argues that the Western powers have become mired in a 'terrorism narrative,' stemming from the mistaken belief that America is in danger of a devastating attack by a crippled Al-Qaeda. To explain why Al-Qaeda is no longer a threat, he provides a briskly written history of the organization, showing its emergence from the disintegrating...
3) September 11
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Description
With age-appropriate text and compelling photos, this book recounts the world-changing events of September 11, 2001, and tells the inspiring story of the heroes who raced to save lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
On orders from Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda operative Amer al Zaroor directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved and how to find...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 21
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded--but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Follows the efforts of counterterrorist agents to identify and take out an Al Qaeda terrorist who has secured his release from the Guantanamo prison and who is hiding in a remote desert outpost while plotting to bomb a western city.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inside Europe's fight against the rise of Islamist terrorism. As Europe reels from a terror onslaught, top counter-terror officials describe their struggle to contain the unprecedented threat revealed by attacks in France and Belgium.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A U.S. military interrogator describes his work in Iraq and his innovative approach that replaces torture with empathy, a procedure that he used to gain the intelligence information required to bring down Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 22
Description
"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why? Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house, bin Laden had seen an historic opportunity: "The next stage will be the return of the caliphate." In the six years since bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda's affiliates...
15) The assassin
Author
Series
Tommy Carmellini novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.
Author
Series
Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
ix, 338 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xviii, 567 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Formats
Description
The Commission's Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire."--www.amazon.com
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 616 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands, leading to one of the most suspenseful and shocking season...
20) The 9/11 report
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
cxxv, 636 p. : ill., maps ; 17 cm.
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