ISBN:
0743278933
,
9780743278935
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 473 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. free press hardcover ed.
DDC:
909.83/1
Keywords:
Qaida (Organization)
;
Terrorism Prevention
;
Terrorism Prevention
;
Iraq War, 2003-2011
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
;
Terrorismus
;
Internationaler Terrorismus
;
USA
;
Al Qaida
;
Terrorismusbekämpfung
;
Irakkrieg 〈 2003〉
;
Qaida (Organization)
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
;
Terrorism
;
United States
;
Prevention
;
Terrorism
;
Prevention
;
Iraq War, 2003-
;
al-Qaida
;
Internationaler Terrorismus
;
USA
;
Bekämpfung
;
Geschichte 2001-2011
;
Elfter September
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437] - 452) and index
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