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A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?
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2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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399 p. ; 25 cm.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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The man who led the intelligence war that killed Osama bin Laden traces a life of leadership in public service, from his tenure in Congress through his years as director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense.
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt?namo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt?namo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death in 2002 while in U.S. military custody forms the heart of this examination of the abuses committed during the detainment and interrogation of political prisoners. When New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall investigates the death of cab driver Dilawar--officially declared by the military to be from natural causes--she uncovers incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Includes images from Bagram Air...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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381 p. (large print), [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
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