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The longest war : the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda / Peter L. Bergen.

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780743278935
  • ISBN: 0743278933
  • ISBN: 1439160597 (ebk.)
  • ISBN: 9781439160596 (ebk.)
  • Physical Description: xx, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. , maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Free Press hbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-452) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Holy Tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- Blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The destruction of the base -- The gloves came off -- Home front: the first Bush term -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- Pakistan: the new base -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war -- The long hunt.
Subject:
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Terrorism > United States > Prevention.
Terrorism > Prevention.
Iraq War, 2003-
Qaida (Organization)

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library HV 6432 .B46 2011 278018 Stacks Checked out 05/16/2013

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