Boutland, Craig
Summary: "Describes attack vehicles being used in war on terrorism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.74 BOUBennett, William J. (William John)
Summary: Argues that the concern for political correctness has weakened the resolve of American political leaders to defeat the radical Islamic terrorists who continue to espouse an agenda harmful to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BENSummary: 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 GROSummary: 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 UNCSummary: Comprised of a miniseries featuring three 46 minute episodes, the group of filmmakers interview the global community, ranging from political figures to on-the-street citizen dialogue, in the Western, European, and indigenous Arabic communities. Examines the dominant discourse on terrorism in the United States and Europe, and offers critics an opportunity to respond. The film casts a critical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARASummary: Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11. Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and impact of fifteen years of constant combat, with unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGOwen, Mark
Summary: An account of the most personally meaningful missions from Owen's thirteen years as a SEAL, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates, in both success and failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.009 Owen 2014O'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: 363.325 O'RECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 O'RECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.3250 CRECopies Available at Interlochen
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 OREEichenwald, Kurt
Summary: Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 EICPfarrer, Chuck.
Summary: On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 PFAWilliams, Brian Glyn
Summary: "Counter Jihad is the first history of America's military operations against radical Islamists, from the Taliban-controlled Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, to the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, to ISIS's headquarters in the deserts of central Syria, giving both generalists and specialists an overview of events that were followed by millions but understood by few. Williams provides the missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 WILAckerman, Spencer
Summary: "An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction for an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, it has pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, as well as detaining people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ACKLebovic, Sam
Summary: "The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 to prosecute spies and critics during World War I. And yet, after a century of piecemeal revisions, the Espionage Act still forms the basis of our national security architecture today - a tool that lets the government keep an untold amount of information secret, without ever justifying the need for that secrecy. In State of Silence, political historian Sam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.7302 LEBHickman, Joseph
Summary: "During his yearlong tour of duty, Sergeant Joseph Hickman saw Guantánamo from the inside--the chaotic prisons, the detainee abuse--and stumbled onto a mystery, a secret facility he and his fellow soldiers labeled "Camp No." When, on June 9, 2006, three prisoners died while Hickman was on duty, all supposed suicides, he knew something was seriously wrong. So began his epic search for the truth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.1 HICClark, Wesley K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CLASummary: Presents a reinterpretation of the legacy of 9/11, chronicling the polarized political culture that evolved over the two decades since the terrorist attacks, leading up to the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEShiffman, John.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHIBergen, 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 BERSchmitt, 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 SCHSummary: Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington, D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNKSoufan, 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