Bergen, Peter L.
Summary: Since 9/11, some 300 Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: Americans were among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more recently a dozen US citizens have sought to join ISIS. Others have acted entirely on American soil. What motivates them, how are they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931Thurston, 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 THUSekulow, 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 SEKScheuer, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1046 SCHMcCarthy, Andrew C.
Contents: "Imagine the liability!" -- Battalions and illusions -- "We are terrorists!" -- The blind Sheikh emerges -- Afghanistan? Who needs to know? -- Feeding the beast -- Jihad in America -- The real deal--under our nose -- Upheaval -- Conspiracy? What conspiracy? -- The informant -- The Jihadist way : victory and vengeance -- Divorce -- No indication? -- Aftermath -- Spy games -- Siddig Ali takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 MCCSummary: 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 IMPGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 GERIbrahim, Azeem
Summary: An international expert traces the rise of the extreme ideology of Wahhabism, which has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since its original rise in the eighteenth century, and argues that it is this ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells worldwide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 IBRRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Inside the Revolution" takes you inside the winner-take-all battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East with never-before-seen profiles of the Radicals, the Reformers and the Revivalists, explaining the implications of each movement and the importance of each leader--not only through the lenses of politics and economics but through the third lens of Scripture as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.054 ROSLewis, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003