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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
by Robert A Pape
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Includes a new Afterword Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the worlds foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive... (read more)

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Licensed To Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (07 Edition)
Licensed To Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (07 Edition)
by Pelton
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Robert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked on a globe-spanning odyssey to penetrate and... (read more)

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Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
by Ken Ballen
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Drawing on unprecedented access, a leading terrorism expert profiles six terrorists to offer an astonishing new portrait of our enemies as we have never seen them before. Why does someone become an Islamic radical? What are his deepest beliefs? And is... (read more)

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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda
by Ali H Soufan
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On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier--when it was requested--the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped... (read more)

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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
by Peter L. Bergen
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The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in... (read more)

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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden
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In GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH, Mark Bowden tells the story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the... (read more)

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Blood and Rage (09 Edition)
Blood and Rage (09 Edition)
by Michael Burleigh
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Blood and Rage is a sweeping and deeply penetrating work of history that explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to today's global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Distinguished historian Michael Burleigh ("There are few better... (read more)

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Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia
Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia
by Dilip Hiro
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This hard-hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. By meticulously tracking the rise of the jihadist movement from its initial violence in Afghanistan in... (read more)

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The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
by Joby Warrick
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In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking... (read more)

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Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious Al Qaeda Terrorist
Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious Al Qaeda Terrorist
by Matthew Alexander
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The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaedas suicide bombing campaign in Iraq Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexanders adrenalinefilled, “outside the... (read more)

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Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
by Walid Phares
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This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad. Phares--who has served as an expert with the Justice Department, briefed the Defense and State Departments, and testified to... (read more)

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Middle Eastern Terrorism
Middle Eastern Terrorism
by Mark Ensalaco
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Since the first airplane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in September 1970, Middle Eastern terrorists have sacrificed innocent human lives in the name of ideology. From Black September to the Munich Olympics, to the embassy... (read more)

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Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
by Robert A. Pape
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  Cutting the Fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, and the insights they... (read more)

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Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
by Steve Fainaru
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru comes an unforgettable journey into Iraqs parallel war—a world filled with tens of thousands of armed men roaming Iraq with impunity, doing jobs the military cant or wont do... (read more)

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Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole
Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole
by Kirk Lippold
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On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop.  At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s... (read more)

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Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
by Fred Burton
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In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly... (read more)

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Countering the New Terrorism
Countering the New Terrorism
by Ian O. Lesser
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Recent bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa remind us that U.S. citizens and U.S. interest are not immune to terrorism. Featuring the works of world-renowned experts, this book traces the recent evolution of international terrorism against civilian and U.... (read more)

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Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terror
Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terror
by J Bowyer Bell
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-195) and index.... (read more)

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What You Need to Know About: Terror
What You Need to Know About: Terror
by Micah Halpern
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includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158).... (read more)

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Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
by Michael A Sheehan
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Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false “terror punditry” that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy, and bruising clasheswith federal lawenforcement agencies... (read more)

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