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None of the novels were as effective or moving as The Longest War, which is a history of our time." Jason Burke writes in The Guardian that "few rival Bergen’s . . . ability to explain, patiently and intelligibly, the complicated concepts" relating to Al-Qaeda, and Islamic militancy in general. [4]
The Faithful Spy is a novel by The New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.The novel won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. [1] It was published in 2006 by Random House and tells the story of a CIA agent who has infiltrated Al Qaeda and, years after 9-11, struggles to stop a terrorist attack in the United States.
Encounter Books. ISBN 1-893554-63-5. Bergen, Peter (2002). Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. Free Press. ISBN 0743234952. Bergen, Peter (2006). The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader. Free Press. ISBN 0743278925. Bergen, Peter (2011). The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and ...
Al-Qaeda: Author(s) Osama bin Laden [1] [2] Purpose: Justifying al-Qaeda's war against United States as defensive Jihad against U.S. aggression [3] [1] [4] Promising the escalation of war until the withdrawal of American forces from Muslim lands [1] [3] Criticism of American cultural values, support for Israel and for their government [1] [5]
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright, a journalist for The New Yorker. Wright examines the origins of the militant organization Al-Qaeda , the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks .
Al-Qaeda particularly looks to a recent wave of attacks by Palestinians against Israelis as a model for assaults on American soil. Al-Qaeda calls for bomb and knife attacks targeting Americans ...
It was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and to this day remains the deadliest terrorist attack in human history. The attacks were conducted by al-Qaeda, acting in accord with the 1998 fatwa issued against the US and its allies by persons under the command of bin Laden ...
It was not until after 220 people died in al Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 that Clinton responded with cruise missile strikes. Those failed to stop bin ...