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The rise and fall of Al-Qaeda / Fawaz A. Gerges.
LIBRA HV6432.5.Q2 G47 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerges, Fawaz A., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qaida (Organization).
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- How much of a threat is al-Qaeda today? Ten years after September 11th, it remains shrouded in myth, lurking everywhere, ceaselessly plotting to kill innocent people en masse. While there is currently extensive and on going analysis of bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad and what it contained, there has been little debate over his organization's Viability. The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda will launch that debate. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a life of its own
- The rise of Al-Qaeda
- The growing rift
- Success and miscalculation
- Decline and fall
- Legacies and aftershocks
- Conclusion: down to size.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199790654
- 0199790655
- OCLC:
- 671709677
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