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Lüsted, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1047 LUS

Bergen, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BER

Morell, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 MOR

Warrick, Joby.

Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL War

Storm, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STORM, MORTEN STO

Scheuer, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1046 SCH

Bergen, Peter L.

Summary: "The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIN LADEN, OSAMA BER

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