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Magnificent Delusions : Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding (9781610393188) by Haqqani Husain
epub |eng | | Author:Haqqani, Husain [Haqqani, Husain]

WHEN INDIA ANNOUNCED on May 18, 1974, that it had tested a “peaceful nuclear device,” Americans were preoccupied with controversies related to the Watergate scandal. Although the timing of the ...
( Category: Asia October 12,2017 )
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff [Nemcoff, Mark Yoshimoto]

CODE NAME: GERONIMO National Security Advisor Tom Donilon received the President’s signed orders in the Diplomatic Room of the White House and set the mission for a Saturday launch. However, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 12,2017 )
The Great Siege of Malta by Allen Bruce Ware
epub |eng | 2015-10-22 | Author:Allen, Bruce Ware

Men die, other men replace them. Turgut’s successor as governor of Tripoli was Uludj Ali, whose first duty was to carry back the body of the old corsair and return ...
( Category: Middle East October 11,2017 )
Israel by Daniel Gordis
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Daniel Gordis

The rabbi spoke from a lectern draped with an Israeli flag. In covering a lectern that held holy books with the flag of secular Israel, Rabbi Zvi Yehudah was saying: ...
( Category: Middle East October 10,2017 )
A Safe Haven by Ronald Radosh
epub |eng | 2009-10-08 | Author:Ronald Radosh

While Truman remains a potential supporter of our cause—for party reasons—the State Department, and especially Henderson, are apparently doing their best to counter-balance this by overemphasizing, as usual, the Arab ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 8,2017 )
SEAL Target Geronimo by Chuck Pfarrer
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Chuck Pfarrer [Pfarrer, Chuck]

Zawahiri had become Osama’s puppet master. The doctor encouraged Osama to expand the base at the Lion’s Den, and dig increasingly intricate tunnels, bunkers, and air raid shelters. There was ...
( Category: Middle East October 7,2017 )
Saddam : His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Con Coughlin

Officially the United States and Britain maintained a policy of neutrality toward the combatants, but there were clear indications that both London and Washington were more favorably inclined toward Baghdad ...
( Category: Historical October 7,2017 )
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:Rory Stewart [Stewart, Rory]

After perhaps 120 feet, I came out into a circular chamber from which a second spiral staircase ascended. Here, the smaller brick steps had fallen away from the wall and ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 7,2017 )
A Time to Betra by Reza Kahlili
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Reza Kahlili [KAHLILI, REZA]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 7,2017 )
The Least of All Possible Evils by Eyal Weizman
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Eyal Weizman

Marc Garlasco speaking at Bard College’s Human Rights Project (HRP) about violations of the laws of war in the Gaza offensive of 2008–9. Photograph courtesy of HRP, 2010. 4 Forensic ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Being Arab by Samir Kassir
epub |eng | | Author:Samir Kassir

V THE ARAB MALAISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF MODERNITY BUT OF MODERNITY’S COLLAPSE IF THE NAHDA had been an isolated historical phenomenon, without sequel, one might be justified in ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust by Noam Chayut
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Noam Chayut

CHAPTER 19 From Shoqet Junction I headed north towards the trail that follows the “green line” to the foothills of Mount Sansana, and from there I followed the orange-blue-white markings ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander & John Bruning
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-27 | Author:Matthew Alexander & John Bruning [Alexander, Matthew]

Twelve PREACHER OF HATE RANDY IS MORE agitated at the morning meeting than usual. The task force commander called earlier looking for an update and found his report wanting. We’re ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg
azw3, epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Gershom Gorenberg [Gorenberg, Gershom]

SIX CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OF THE LORD —D. H. LAWRENCE, “The Old Idea of Sacrifice” The old idea of sacrifice was this: that blood of the lower life must be shed ...
( Category: Judaism October 6,2017 )
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen by Hazem Kandil
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Hazem Kandil [Kandil, Hazem]

BACK TO THE HOME FRONT Although the umbrella of American protection was meant to substitute military protection for the political apparatus—i.e., it substituted the function of the military in the ...
( Category: Middle East October 6,2017 )

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