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The longest war: The enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda. Peter L. Bergen.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c2011.Edition: 1st Free Press hbk. edDescription: xx, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. , maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-0743278935
  • 0743278933
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV 6432 .B46 2011
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Contents:
Holy Tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- Blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The destruction of the base -- The gloves came off -- Home front: the first Bush term -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- Pakistan: the new base -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war -- The long hunt.
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.
Item type: General circulation books
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General circulation books Presbyterian University of East Africa - Nairobi Library General Stacks Non-fiction HV 6432 .B46 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C1 Available 2014-7916

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-452) and index.

Holy Tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- Blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The destruction of the base -- The gloves came off -- Home front: the first Bush term -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- Pakistan: the new base -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war -- The long hunt.

New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.

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