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The Terror Years - From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (Paperback)
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The Terror Years - From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (Paperback)
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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 draws on several articles he wrote while researching
that book as well as many that he's written since, following where
and how al-Qaeda and its core cult-like beliefs have morphed and
spread. They include an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a
kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the
Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already
exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil
war; the 2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in
disparate values of human lives. Others continue to look into
al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a
rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web
of terror in the world. The American response is covered in
profiles of two FBI agents and a chief of the CIA. It ends with the
recent devastating piece about the capture and beheading by ISIS of
four American journalists and aid workers, and how the US
government failed to handle the situation.
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