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Intelligence service Fiction Intelligence service United States Qaida (Organization) Qaida (Organization) Drama Qaida (Organization) Fiction September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Terrorism Terrorism Government policy United States Terrorism United States Prevention War on Terrorism, 2001-2009Romero, Libby
Summary: With age-appropriate text and compelling photos, this book recounts the world-changing events of September 11, 2001, and tells the inspiring story of the heroes who raced to save lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandHiggins, Jack
Summary: When the assistant to the head of a secret White House department is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the event is tied to a warning to the U.S. president by a London branch of al-Qaida that is determined to prove its resilience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HIGLüsted, Marcia Amidon.
Summary: Profiles the terrorist leader of al-Qaida, who orchestrated the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and describes his assassination by the U.S. government in May of 2011.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1047 LUSHiggins, Jack
Summary: "The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Higgins 2016Summary: An anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community maintains that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Although aspects of the modern world may offend conservative Muslims, no Islamist leader has fomented jihad to destroy Western institutions. Rather, a growing segment of the Islamic world disapproves of specific U.S. policies and their attendant military, political, and economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 IMPBergen, Peter L.
Summary: Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of Al-Qaeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BERMorell, Michael J.
Summary: "THE GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME offers an unprecedented assessment of the CIA while at the forefront of our nation's war against al-Qa'ida and during the most remarkable period in the history of the Agency. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 MORPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: This book tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSoufan, Ali H.
Summary: A former FBI special agent offers an insider's account of how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, as well as his role in the war on terror, including his highly effective interrogation efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SOUBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUWright, Lawrence
Summary: "Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 WRIElliot, Jason
Summary: Under the expert guidance of an old-school hero and veteran of the elite British Special Air Service, MI6 agent Taverner prepares to enter Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles before they can fall into the hands of al-Qaeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLFriedman, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FRIGall, Carlotta
Summary: Describes the toll taken on the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan since the September 11 attacks through ordinary citizens' accounts of fighting and first-hand descriptions from Taliban warlords, intelligence thugs, American generals, and Afghani politicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 GALStorm, Morten
Summary: Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STORM, MORTEN STOWright, Lawrence
Summary: A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.931 WRISummary: Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandAlexander, Matthew
Summary: A U.S. military interrogator describes his work in Iraq and his innovative approach that replaces torture with empathy, a procedure that he used to gain the intelligence information required to bring down Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ALECoonts, Stephen
Summary: Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Coonts, Stephen
Summary: Sent to investigate a French spy agency director's covert investments in the Bank of Palestine, retired CIA agent Jake Grafton teams up with fellow operative Tommy Carmellini to uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda. By the author of Liars & Thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOGertz, Bill.
Summary: The defense and national security reporter for the Washington times argues that the United States intelligence community failed to prevent the September 11 attacks, even with the information they learned after the 1993 bombing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2002