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Terrorism, betrayal, and resilience : my story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings / Prudence Bushnell.
Van Pelt Library HV6433.K4 B87 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bushnell, Prudence, 1946- author.
- Series:
- ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Embassy Bombing, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998.
- Jihad.
- Women ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Women ambassadors.
- Ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Ambassadors.
- United States.
- Leadership.
- Leadership in women.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Kenya--Nairobi.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later. When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the rest of the United States, was focused on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Congress held no hearings about the bombings, the national security community held no after-action reviews, and the mandatory Accountability Review Board focused on narrow security issues. Then on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. homeland, and the East Africa bombings became little more than an historical footnote. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is Bushnell's account of her quest to understand how these bombings could have happened, given the scrutiny bin Laden and his cell in Nairobi had been getting since 1996 from special groups in the National Security Council, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Bushnell tracks national security strategies and assumptions about terrorism and the Muslim world that failed to keep us safe in 1998. In this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account, she reveals what led to poor decisions in Washington and demonstrates how diplomacy and leadership will be our country's most potent defense going forward. Purchase the audio edition.
- Contents:
- Part 1. What happened?
- The bombing
- The past as prologue
- The response
- The impact
- The turning point
- The consequences
- Part 2. How did it happen?
- The proxy war
- The blowback
- The plots
- The plans
- The execution
- So what?
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781640121010
- 1640121013
- 9781640121324
- 1640121323
- 9781640121331
- 1640121331
- 9781640121348
- 164012134X
- OCLC:
- 1038043655
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