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Series
Killing volume 11
Language
English
Description
"In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Examines the weapons, tactics, and strategies used in the ongoing war against Islamic extremists, from guerilla combat and suicide bombings to high-tech weapons and new laws. Features color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A look at the causes and global effects of the terror attacks carried out in the United States on September 11, 2001, which set in motion the events of the War on Terror and hunt for al Qaeda"--
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda... A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat." No one has more authority to make that claim than Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
12) Causes
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Details the events that have led up to the modern War on Terror and the ongoing struggles against Islamic forces in the Middle East. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but,...
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Language
English
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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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