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Al Qaeda : in search of the terror network that threatens the world / Jane Corbin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corbin, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Qaida (Organization).
- Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
- Bin Laden, Osama.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder Mouth Press/Nation Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- Corbin, the BBCUs senior correspondent specializing in the Middle East, has broken many stories on the growth of Al Qaeda over the past decade. Here she explores how one man with a medieval view of good and evil, living in a cave, brought the worldUs only remaining superpower to its knees.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The gathering storm
- 1. The seventeenth son
- 2. The dark defile
- 3. Terror incorporated
- 4. War against America
- 5. The exile
- 6. The innocents
- 7. the sleeping giant
- pt. 2. Anatomy of murder
- 8. September 11
- 9. The Egyptian
- 10. Between two worlds
- 11. The shadow and the playboy
- 12. The Hamburg cell
- 13. Deadly lessons
- 14. Below the radar
- 15. Targets
- 16. The European connection
- 17. The muscle arrives
- 18. Countdown to zero hour
- 19. The last night
- pt. 3. War on terror
- 20. Draining the swamp
- 21. The road to Tora Bora
- 22. Al-Qaeda strikes again
- 23. Operation Anaconda
- 24. Where is Bin Laden?
- ISBN:
- 1560254262
- OCLC:
- 49936140
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