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The jihad next door : the Lackawanna six and rough justice in an age of terror / Dina Temple-Raston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Temple-Raston, Dina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Muslims--Civil rights.
- Muslims.
- Yemeni Americans.
- United States.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Political aspects--United States.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Yemeni Americans--New York (State)--Lackawanna.
- Muslims--Civil rights--New York (State)--Lackawanna.
- New York (State)--Lackawanna.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2007]
- Summary:
- Offers a portrait of a group of young Yemeni-American men from an upstate New York steel town near Buffalo, who in spring 2001 attended an al-Qaeda camp and who may--or may not--have become America's first sleeper cell of Islamic terrorists.
- Contents:
- The curse of McKinley
- Ward rats
- The search for clarity
- "God rewards those who fight"
- Of mullahs and madrassas
- The closer
- "Take your souls in your hands"
- Sitting down with the sheikh
- "For Muslims in this country, it is over"
- On the hot seat
- Fitting profiles
- A conspiracy of silence
- A time of fire
- Ideological detonators
- Bills fans or jihadists?
- Epilogue: "Not stones, but men."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781586484033
- 1586484036
- OCLC:
- 170613498
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