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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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A former FBI special agent offers an insider's account of how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, as well as his role in the war on terror, including his highly effective interrogation efforts.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Draws on hundreds of interviews and once-secret documents to deliver the untold story of the FBI's secret battles in the war on terror--both outside the United States and inside the U.S. government--highlighting the tensions between the FBI and CIA.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou takes readers into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book's most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it--or could attempt to stop it.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A Navy SEAL commander explores the practical and philosophical questions of heroic service that have emerged about America's past decade at war, from the qualities of heroes and the reasons we fight to how war impacts families and whether or not soldiers can be held accountable for wartime actions.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"The definitive account of an FBI special agent's al-Qaeda story, unredacted for the first time. In the fight against al-Qaeda, former FBI special agent Ali H. Soufan became a legend on the basis of his deft questioning of prisoners, which often short-circuited al-Qaeda plots in the pipeline. Physical or mental violence played no part in this success. He never laid a hand on the suspected terrorists. Other U.S. intelligence agencies took orders directly...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The story of Carle's most serious assignment, when he was "surged" into the global war on terror to interrogate a top-level detainee at one of the CIA's notorious black sites overseas. It tells of his encounter with one of the most senior al-Qaeda detainees the United States captured after 9/11, a "ghost detainee" who, the CIA believed, might hold the key to finding Osama bin Ladin.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
Author
Series
Williams-ford Texas A&M university military history volume no. 163
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
36) A delicate truth
Author
Language
English
Description
2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
The contributing editor of "Rolling Stone" whose uncensored article "The Runaway General" led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal provides a behind-the-scenes account of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.
38) Out of Gitmo
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial US prison after fourteen years.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
A narrative account of a national security sting designed to protect U.S. soldiers, sailors, and pilots from enemies armed with American weapons traces the efforts of an elite undercover Homeland Security unit to track down an elusive Iranian broker.
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
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