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Iraq War, 2003- Prisioneros de guerra Estados Unidos Teatro Prisioneros de guerra Irak Teatro Qaida (Organization) Drama September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Terrorism Prevention Terroristas Estados Unidos Teatro Terrorists United States Drama United States. Central Intelligence Agency Drama Women intelligence officers United States DramaSummary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From the luxury yacht the length of a football field, Largo oversees a master plan of mayhem involving stolen cruise missiles, nuclear extortion, deadly video games and all the other evils in SPECTRE'S arsenal. James Bond, Agent 007, goes into battle with a fabulous flying motorcycle and other ghastly gadgets, including a fountain pen that can write you off with a bang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [MGM/UA Home Entertainment] 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NEVSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: In her new role as a CIA station chief, Carrie convinces Saul and Quinn to help her hunt down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. But when Carrie recruits a young Pakistani as an asset, the lines between right and wrong blur and the operation spins out of control. Facing unclear loyalties at every turn, Carrie must take extreme measures and risk everything to protect her country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSekulow, Jay
Summary: The world's wealthiest and most powerful jihadists, ISIS originated within Al Qaeda with the goal of creating an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria and unrelenting jihad on Christians. This book gives a better understanding of the modern face of terror, and provides an overview of the laws of war and war crimes. These laws differentiate between the guilty and innocent, and explain why the US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 SEKRaban, Jonathan.
Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 RABSummary: Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Frontline goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history. In "The Dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DARSummary: As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War O'ReillyO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Large Print 363.3250 ORESummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandLindauer, Susan.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.The War on Truth -- 2.Advance Warnings About 9/11 -- 3.Peace Asset -- 4.A Secret Day in the Life of an Asset -- 5.Iraq's Peace Overtures to Europe and the United States -- 6.9/11: A Pattern of Command Negligence with Michael Collins -- 7.September 11, 2001 -- 8.Iraq's Cooperation with 9/11 Investigation -- 9.Iraq's Contribution to 9/11 Investigation Part 2 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 LINSummary: Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROHersh, Seymour M.
Summary: "Seymour M. Hersh brings together reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?" "In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 HERSummary: "Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing military agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIJSummary: Cinemax's first scripted primetime drama series returns. A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller, Strike Back focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a consummate British soldier still struggling to overcome tragedy in his life, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRThurston, Alexander
Summary: "Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram's development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terrorist organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 THUHerzog, Saul
Summary: "Moscow, Russia. A massive bombing kills hundreds. Washington DC, USA - The President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War. Langley, USA with Washington and the Kremlin on the brink of war, Levi Roth has to find out who's behind the attack. There's only one man for the job, but the last anyone saw of him, he was in Moscow, severely wounded, waiting for the help of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorContact 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERFlynn, Sean Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "In this chilling new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series, simmering tensions threaten to ignite when a silo of Cold War missiles surfaces in the Middle East. In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent a convoy of nuclearmissiles to Cuba. The crisis that followed almost triggered World War III. However, while all eyes were on the Caribbean, not all of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROVSummary: Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWECoker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021