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By means of interviews with, and contributions from, prominent international figures, Axis of Freedom examines the dramatic world events which unfolded from 11 September 2001 to the end of occupation of Iraq in the summer of 2004. Many books have been written on the war on terror, but none include the personal views and opinions of so many top military and political leaders. The contributions are linked by a series of essays to form a compelling narrative...
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
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Foreign-sponsored terrorist attacks aimed at conquering American communities and US territory have not yet become a reality. Such attacks, though not probable, are unfortunately not impossible. Actual events and even fictional stories about terrorism, both domestic and foreign, are often far removed from American communities and the reality of most people's everyday lives.
The Ghosts of Gaylord challenges that reality by dropping the devastation...
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It was a beautiful late summer morning, the kind of day even busy New Yorkers took a moment to appreciate. The sky was spectacularly clear, tinted an azure blue, the air stirred by a gentle breeze. The mood of the city seemed optimistic as people hurried down the crowded streets on their way to work. Then the world as people knew it changed forever. The attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and New York City's World Trade Center by three fuel-laden,...
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This book was inspired by the unrest, indifference, and the covert actions of foreign governments interfering in the political or military affairs of Middle Eastern states all for the purpose of national security of those foreign nations. Religious and radical factions operating within the borders of those Middle Eastern States felt disenchanted and oppressed by outsiders and had resorted to terrorism as a way of persuading those foreign...
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Occidente, llorarás por mí es una novela de intriga que narra la investigación de un pequeño suceso que poco a poco deja entrever la mayor amenaza yihadista jamás sufrida por un país. El protagonista, Miguel Aguirre, un hombre curtido en el exigente trabajo de los agentes secretos, es el encargado de resolver este rompecabezas a partir de la comprobación casi rutinaria de un incidente que, poco a poco, se va mostrando como el pico de un iceberg...
67) Point of Refuge
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James Leforte, former SAS sniper and MI6 operative, relocates to the United States after a disastrous US-British joint operation. Leforte takes over for his uncle, a sheriff in North Dakota. Now Leforte must deal with the local crime family, the theft of nuclear material, and a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon in downtown Bismarck. To complicate an already-dangerous situation, someone from Leforte's past reemerges and is hell-bent on revenge:...
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Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. In launching military and propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of economic independence waged by Al-Qaeda. The Patriot Act boosted the black market economy, and the war on terror...
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Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime and call for a reexamination of the complex connections...
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The year is 1999. A tourist is killed, saving hundreds of innocent people at the Washington Air and Space Museum. A shadowy group calling itself DEFCON One claims responsibility for what is undeniably an act of domestic terrorism. The FBI believes the group is a covert terrorist cell within an overt right-wing militia, based in Wyoming. Recruited by the FBI, Gabriele Barnes, the grieving wife of the victim, agrees to go undercover as a confidential...
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In this innovative and concise work, Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding and fighting the increase in domestic and international terrorism throughout the world. Citing diverse examples from around the globe, Netanyahu demonstrates that domestic terrorist groups are usually no match for an advanced technological society, which can successfully roll back terror without any significant curtailment of civil...
72) Wailers
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People die like a lamp, no complaints into the reincarnation. When people are born, they need a stable woman to deliver them, and when they die, they need someone to send them on the road to the Yellow Springs and into the reincarnation ......
I am the one who sends them into the cycle of reincarnation. The day my grandmother died, I defied the ancestral rule and became a crybaby ......
73) FATWA
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What would you do if an Islamic death threat, or "fatwa," was issued against you? Where would you run to? How would you hide?
In this electrifying short-story account, New York Times best-selling author Thomas M. Kostigen describes escaping from Iranian assassins who descend upon his Beverly Hills home seeking retribution for charges in his latest novel, Golden Dawn, in which he writes about a maniacal ayatollah.
Just as thrilling and fast-paced as...
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El narcotráfico creó una forma de vida con consecuencias nefastas en las nuevas generaciones, sin dimensionar el daño colateral que generaron los carteles, los capos y la mafia. Veinte años después de la muerte de Pablo Emilio Escobar, el Patrón, Jineth Bedoya, junto con el equipo de investigación de el diario El Tiempo, cuentan cómo funcionaba el país, el por qué del éxito del narcotráfico durante tantas décadas y cómo se ha ido desmantelando...
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In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style-powerful, lively, and accessible,...
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I am the driver of the last bus of the 13, every night at 11:00 I have to run a suburban ......
This book is poisonous, addiction is not to blame! In this novel you may find that the God's mouth that has always guessed the plot a hundred times is actually hitting the face a lot, you may read and ask yourself "what's going on? What's going on?" Please do not doubt life, continue to read.
"Suspended" story, save the book drought refugees!
77) Terrorism
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In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to his foreign guests as "freedom fighters." These were the Afghan mujahideen. In August 1998, another American president ordered missile strikes from the American navy based in the Indian Ocean to kill Osama bin Laden and his men in the camps in...
78) Wet Rain
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Two sisters-in-law find themselves working together to solve an international plot which they are clueless about in the beginning.
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Sometimes life's most important lessons come in the most unlikely places. You are probably wondering, what kind of leadership lessons can I learn from one of the world's most notorious terrorists? After all, he will go down in history as one of the most brutal and evil dictators because of his bad deeds? This is likely going to be one of the most unusual books on leadership that you will ever read. It is as much about the author, Lisa Gibson's journey...
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The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party was holding its annual conference in the town. Five people were killed in the explosion, and more than thirty were...
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