The dying Sahara : US imperialism and terror in Africa / Jeremy Keenan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keenan, Jeremy, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Africa.

Terrorism.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 326 pages ) maps (black and white)

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Follows Keenan's previous book }The Dark Sahara{, showing how US collusion with Algeria has created a new front in Washington's War on Terror.

In' The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating aefalse flagAE terrorism to justify the launch of a new aeSaharan frontAE in WashingtonAEs War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the PentagonAEs designation of the region as a aeTerror ZoneAE has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. - Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the US aeinvasionAE of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes, cashing in on US terrorism aerentsAE, provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Multinationals expropriated Tuareg lands for uranium and puppeteers in Washington and Algiers pulled the strings of a new, narco-trafficking Al Qaeda. - Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the US and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe.

Contents:

P20G : a long history of false-flag terrorism

The US invasion of the Sahara-Sahel

Repression and terrorism rents

Footing the bill : did the World Bank fund state terrorism?

Putting the GWOT back on track

New Tuareg rebellions

Uranium goes critical : why the Tuareg took up arms

The fifth anniversary of 2003 : another kidnap

The creation of AFRICOM

The future ground zero

Perfidious Albion : the murder of Edwin Dyer

Drugs and the threat of western intervention

Al-Qaeda in the west for the west

'Washing the Mountain' : desert borders, corruption and the DRS

Sarkozy declares war on al-Qaeda

Opening the gates of hell

The past catches up : pressure on Algeria

The Arab spring and Gaddafi intervene

War crime?

Preparing for the 'long war'.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849648271

1849648271

9781849648264

1849648263

OCLC:

840615220