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Cyberterrorism Intelligence service United States National security United States Qaida (Organization) September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Terrorism Prevention Terrorism United States Prevention United States United States. Central Intelligence Agency Officials and employees Biography War on Terrorism, 2001-2009Lüsted, 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 LUSBillings, Tanner
Summary: "Cyber technology-or cyber tech-is a major part of warfare, but it might seem too complex or complicated for young people to understand. However, with the help of this clear and comprehensive guide to military cyber tech, readers can become experts on this exciting STEM topic. The accessible main text and detailed sidebars are paired with graphic organizers and full-color photographs to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.4 BILNapolitano, Janet
Summary: The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 NAPWoodward, Bob
Summary: Washington Post editor Bob Woodward offers a sweeping chronicle of President Obama's clandestine decisions during his first term in office. From the Afghanistan War to secret operations in Pakistan, Obama's war on terror has been much quieter than his predecessor's. Here, Woodward sheds light on some of the closed-door conversations that have characterized Obama and his administration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.932 WOOSummary: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCKitfield, James
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITBergen, 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 BERMiller, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 MILWalder, Tracy
Summary: "A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALDER WALMcCabe, Andrew (Andrew George)
Summary: "On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: 'Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI--A great day for Democracy.' In [this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCABE MCCJacobson, Sidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 JACVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.3 HOWSuskind, Ron.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SUSKundnani, Arun.
Summary: "Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States, the UK, and across Europe. Based on several years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 KUNLichtblau, Eric.
Contents: This thing called the constitution -- Collateral damage -- Don't embarrass the bureau -- Threats, pronouncements, and the media wars -- Sworn to secrecy -- Blood on our hands -- High-level confirmation -- Swift-boated (round two) -- A loyal Bushie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 LICSoufan, 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 SOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SOUSchmitt, Eric
Summary: Reveals the Pentagon's covert strategy for countering terrorism that developed when initial efforts following September 11 were unsuccessful, explaining how multiple agencies have adapted Cold War practices to disrupt key jihadist networks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SCHRodriguez, Jose A.
Summary: An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RODSummary: Describes the enormous, top-secret, invisible universe created by the government after 9/11 and describes why the system in place to keep us safe may actually be putting us in greater danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32517 PRIJones, Seth G.
Summary: A former senior advisor at U.S. Special Operations Command recounts the history of the United States' ongoing battle against Al Qaida, describing investigations conducted by the combined efforts of the CIA, FBI, and MI5 and the shifting alliances between terrorist groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 JONWright, 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, Call number: 363.325 WRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 WRIElish, Dan
Summary: On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the raid that captured bin Laden to life. Kids will feel as though they are in the room with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the others in the cabinet who called for and monitored the raid. Primary source quotations make the event feel immediate, and photographs by the White House...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.104 ELIMorell, 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