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This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same logic of fear to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence.
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This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that 'suicide-bombings' are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, this book argues that it is more helpful to examine such violent agency through the concept of 'sacrifice'.
Through a unique look at the way 'sacrifice' is used in the Arabic language, this book offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought....
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This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror'...
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
5) Target Eight
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"Thriller writing at its best... A gripping story that's hard to put down."
--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (re Any Means Necessary)
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From #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars, author of the critically acclaimed Luke Stone and Agent Zero series (with over 5,000 five-star reviews), comes an explosive new action-packed espionage series that takes readers on a wild ride across Europe, America, and the world-perfect...
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"Fans of traditional mysteries will welcome Axelrod's entertaining fifth outing for Nantucket police chief Henry Kennis…That Henry believes in an 'old school low-tech version of police work' allows the reader to readily follow the clues." -Publishers Weekly
The fifth Henry Kennis mystery takes us into the closed, gossip-riddled, back-stabbing world of Nantucket's community theater.
Horst Refn, the widely disliked and resented Artistic Director...
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The world's most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.
On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn't know that another conspiracy is brewing around him-a poisonous plot to violently...
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In this compulsive page-turner, six-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman blows the lid off one of Washington's deepest real-world secrets. The CIA, currently incapable of performing its core mission of supplying critical and time-sensitive human-based intelligence for the global war on terror, must now outsource the work to private contractors. Drawing on real-world crises and actual CIA operations, Direct Action takes readers deep...
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Description-Dogs of War"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."-William Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 1, Julius CaesarThey're here. In America. Thousands of Islamic terrorists committed to a rabid jihad that ends only when they've butchered the last man, woman, and child. Worst of all, they have nukes. The Day of Jihad is at hand. The odds of Western civilization being snuffed out grow stronger each day.Compounding the threat, the Chinese are solidifying...
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The hunt is on for the traitors Larry Robinson and Arthur Miller to bring them to justice. Meanwhile, a shipment of weapons grade plutonium has been hijacked and is on its way to a Cartel-controlled Harbor in Colombia. The US Military scrambles to plan an assault even while retired Delta Force Operator David Fleming plans his own rescue mission to rescue his wife and her father, kidnapped and forced to work for Larry Robinson and the Cartels to assemble...
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With the CIA at the core of the war on terror, no agency is as important to preserving America's freedom. Yet the CIA is a closed and secretive world-impenetrable to generations of journalists-and few Americans know what really goes on among the spy masters who plot America's worldwide campaign against terrorists.
Only Ronald Kessler, an award-winning former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, could have gained the unprecedented...
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The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN: "The most complete account available of the terrorist's immediate family." (May 15, 2011)
A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden.
"I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams..."
Thus...
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In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo.
Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions,...
14) Dead Code
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In the murky world of organized crime, drug cartels, and terrorist organizations, a covert US government organization operates in the shadows. Known only as "Operation Deep Cross," their mission is to eliminate high-valued assets that operate with impunity inside the United States. They generate a "Dead Code" - an encrypted message that is sent to "dark contract assassins" who carry out the hits. One such assassin, known only as "Red Snake," is their...
15) Slow Burn
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A sinister plan ignites not-so-spontaneous combustions in an explosive thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Stillhouse Lake novels.
A prostitute's client in Dallas. A jogger in El Paso. A pastor in Louisiana. Across the South and Southwest, middle-aged men are bursting into flames.
In the Office of Environmental Hazards, one man is on the case. His initial observations point to something in the drinking water....
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At a time when Israel is under persistent attack-on the battlefield, by international organizations, and in the court of public opinion-Alan Dershowitz presents a powerful case for Israel's just war against terrorism. In the spirit of his international bestseller, The Case for Israel, Dershowitz shows why Israel's struggle against Hamas is a fight not only to protect its own citizens, but for all democracies. The nation-state of the Jewish people...
17) Hidden Charges
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The setting is The Yankee Green-an enormous shopping center and entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. A self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city, The Yankee Green has tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the indoor amusement park; young professionals work out in the state-of-the-art health club and jog on the atrium's overhead running track; the...
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'A diplomatic genius' Gordon Brown
'Tom Fletcher was the ultimate Downing Street operator' David Cameron From behind the trigger, there are only targets
Having been made High Commissioner in Nairobi, Ed Barnes is keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. But when his daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped following a security crisis for which he is blamed, his attempts at normality fall apart once again. He finds himself at the heart of a complex...
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This book examines the events of September 11th 2001, Osama bin Laden's role and the complex working of the Al Qa'ida terror network. This is the classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan that explains the devastating consequences of the alliance between the US government and radical Islam. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the current international crisis.
Cooley marshals a wealth...
20) Raven's Ridge
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An American detective in Ireland becomes entangled in international intrigue: "Excellent" (Peter Eichstaedt, award winning author of Borderland).
Hard-boiled private detective and former muckraking journalist Max Blake, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown, are back in action in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty...
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