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2) Osama
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to track down the obscure creator of the fictional vigilante, Osama Bin Laden. Joe's quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books are...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly declassified hard drives taken from the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed reveal a groundbreaking look at his personal life. Experts sift through the 470,000 digital files to piece together a roadmap into the mind of a mass murderer. Examine his contradictory personal psychology, relationship with family and religion as well as his legacy of violence and destruction.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Islamic extremist who uses his family wealth to fund and support worldwide terrorism and who has been linked to many terrorist attacks since the 1980s.
8) Retribution
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Their mission, code-named Neptune Spear, was to find and kill the terrorist leader. The mission was a success. Since that day, elements of the government of Pakistan have harbored a deep hatred for the SEALs who violated their sovereign territory. Now they've hired a team of German assassins to kill all twenty-four...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bergen sheds light on bin Laden's many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, depending on two of his wives, both of whom had PhDs, to make important strategic decisions, yet he also brought ruin to his family. He was fanatically religious, yet willing to kill thousands of civilians in the name of Islam. He inspired deep loyalty yet, in the end, his bodyguards turned...
10) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But they say it's more than a house--it's a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the name bin Laden. They don't have to. Everyone understands that finally,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--a mission requiring the best America had to offer: roughly forty members of America's super-secret counterterrorist unit, an élite and mysterious unit known as Delta Force. And these Delta warriors had the best help they could ask for: the CIA, a dozen of the British Queen's elite commandos, and another dozen or so Army Green Berets. This team waged a modern-day siege of epic proportions against...
20) Osama bin Laden
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xi, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Available biographies depict Osama bin Laden as a historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. In this book, Scheuer, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, provides a closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden.
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