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Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis to conquer the world by 2020 that included reestablishing the Caliphate in Syria between 2013 and 2016. Despite a massive schism between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, al-Adl's plan has proved remarkably prescient. In summer 2014, ISIS declared...
Author
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Sean Dillon) volume 21
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English
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On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon. The Chechens do not survive, but Dillon is curious as to how they got on the island. What he discovers chills his bones; the assassination attempt is...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by the dean of intrigue novelists (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it. In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own. In...
4) 9-11
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
125 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
5) The apostle
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
589 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
6) The assassin
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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From Stephen Coonts comes a novel of high octane excitement, featuring Tommy Carmellini in his most dangerous mission yet: The Assassin.
In the finale of Coonts's last novel The Traitor, the ruthless and brilliant Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the Group of 7 in Paris slipped the noose and escaped. But Abu Qasim has another trick up his sleeve: he has offered to pay a the Mafia a fortune to help
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English
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A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right...
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Delta Force operator Kolt Raynor must thwart a deadly terrorist plot in this globe-hopping special operations thriller in the New York Times bestselling series
When SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden, they pulled a treasure trove of intelligence on planned attacks on U.S. soil. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's new leader, is activating his most trusted (and deadliest) terrorists to carry out his newest plot: to detonate a bomb inside
9) The traitor
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Sent to investigate a French spy agency director's covert investments in the Bank of Palestine, retired CIA agent Jake Grafton teams up with fellow operative Tommy Carmellini to uncover a plot to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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13) Taliban oil
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the unknown story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and America to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. When America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the stated aim was to dismantle Al-Qaeda, denying it a safe base of operations by removing the Taliban from power. But Al-Qaeda claimed that the attack on the Twin Towers was a response to the Bush administration’s threats to attack Afghanistan if its demands for pipeline rights were...
14) Inferno in Chechnya: the Russian-Chechen wars, the Al Qaeda myth, and the Boston Marathon bombings
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Publisher
ForeEdge
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the history behind the Russian treatment of Chechens, the series of wars, the actual role of Arab fighters, and the Boston Marathon bombers, who are profiled in the final chapter--Provided by publisher.
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
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xxi, 359 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
-- Too Big to FailManhunt one of the key stories of this decade: the authoritative, immersive account of the operation that killed the man who organized the largest mass murder in American history.
16) Manhunt
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The May 1, 2011 raid on Abbottabad, Pakistan that culminated in the killing of Osama bin Laden took 40 minutes. The CIA's hunt for binLaden took two decades. An official selection of the 2013 Sundance Festival, Manhunt tells the remarkable true story of the nearly 20-year pursuit of the world's most notorious terrorist. Directed by Emmy-nominee Greg Barker, the film features testimony and recollections - some shared for the first time - from top...
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