Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail - Hardcover

Smucker, Philip G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574886282 ISBN 13: 9781574886283

Verlag: Brassey's US, 2004

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Book by Smucker Philip

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"A brilliant book... Al Qaeda is out in the world in large numbers and Phillip Smucker's book is the first comprehensive account of how this happened." Charles Heyman, editor of Jane's World Armies; "Only Phil Smucker could head into Afghanistan on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden, armed with just an empty whiskey bottle and an eight-foot carpet to wrap up his prisoner. Along the way he uncovers treachery and skulduggery on a mammoth scale. Rip-roaring stuff." BBC correspondent, Jacky Rowland"

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When President Bush announced in a televised speech the week after September 11 that he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," a grieving America seeking justice and revenge roared in agreement. Two years later, as al Qaeda's associates mounted almost weekly attacks against U.S. interests and bin Laden still a free man, Americans are wondering why. With both the American military and the media declaring the war in Afghanistan over and a resounding success, respected war correspondent Philip Smucker examines in this book what kind of victory they can rightfully claim...

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• Verlag: Brassey's US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1574886282
• ISBN 13: 9781574886283
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229