war on terrorism, 2001-2009

"Webb offers eight profiles of uncommon courage--who these men were, what they stood for, and how they came to make the ultimate sacrifice"--OCLC.

In his book, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect their surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in a space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people make. In his essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.

Final report of the National Commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States. The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post 9/11 world.

"... Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee ..."--Provided by publisher.

"The War in Afghanistan recounts the United States' involvement in the war against terrorism, including incidents leading up to the war, and key events and people"--Back cover.

Provides eyewitness accounts from participants in the First Gulf War, 1990-91, Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-10, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, 2001-10, drawn from a cross section of nationalities and services.

Morton Storm was an unlikely jihadi. At six-foot-one, Storm was a red-headed Dane who spent his teens throwing punches with a biker gang and getting thrown in jail. After reading about Islam he converted and embarked on a decade-long transformation that would lead him to a close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. In time, his repudiation of extremism led him to atonement and a life of extreme danger as an undercover agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. He single-handedly thwarted attacks in the West and led the CIA to some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, all the while knowing his own life was expendable.

Recent revelations of extensive government surveillance programs pit privacy concerns against the need to fight terrorism and crime. Using cases involving real people, this book explores how federal agencies, local law enforcement, and even schools are collecting, using and perhaps abusing the personal information they gather online.

A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

Presents the events that lead to the death of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, discussing why it was important to find him, how he had originally escaped the United States military, and more.