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1) The Afghan
Author
Language
English
Description
When British and American intelligence uncover rumors of a major Al Qaeda operation, they enlist the assistance of Colonel Mike Martin, a veteran military officer born and raised in Iraq, to assume the identity of Afghan terrorist Izmat Khan, a prisoner at Guantanamo and former senior commander of the Taliban, in order to infiltrate the terrorist organization.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Kill List: a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region's primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a serious threat to national security, historical identity, and a cohesive society. This provocative, vitally important work explores the development of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate account of the women who made the choice to leave their lives behind to join a peaceful Islamic state documents how university students and career women found themselves trapped within the violence of a brutal caliphate.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cosmic war is a religious war, not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. Scholar Reza Aslan maintains that by infusing the War on Terror with the same kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric, the United States is also...
10) Wolf dreams
Author
Publisher
Toby Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
13) Inside 9/11
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inside 9/11 traces the time line that led up to the deadly attacks and deconstructs the fateful day, tracking the movements of all four terrorist teams and patching together the ad hoc response of government.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur'an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi negotiated access to a militant cell in northern Afghanistan with longtime ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban and lived among the group for ten days, providing a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
17) Radical origins: why we are losing the battle against Islamic extremism--and how to turn the tide
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An international expert traces the rise of the extreme ideology of Wahhabism, which has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since its original rise in the eighteenth century, and argues that it is this ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells worldwide.
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