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    The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min
    A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States. Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. The Last Refuge charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last 30 years, detailing how a group that the United States once defeated has now become one of the world’s most dangerous threats. An expert on Yemen who has spent years on the ground there, Gregory D. Johnsen uses al-Qaeda’s Arabic battle notes to reconstruct their world as they take aim at the United States and its allies. Johnsen brings listeners inside al-Qaeda’s training camps and safe houses as the terrorists plot poison attacks and debate how to bring down an airliner on Christmas Day. The Last Refuge is an eye-opening look at the successes and failures of fighting a new type of war in one of the most turbulent countries in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012375/bk_adbl_012375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
    On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous 15 years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government's effort to support the fledgling government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA's rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd's role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign. Here, Mudd tells how the Al Qaeda threat looked to CIA and FBI professionals as the focus shifted from a core Al Qaeda leadership to the rise of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups and homegrown violent extremism from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. As a participant in and a witness to key strategic initiatives - including the hunt for Osama bin Laden and efforts to displace the Taliban - Mudd offers an insider's perspective on the relationships between the White House, the State Department, and national security agencies before and after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Through telling vignettes, Mudd reveals how intelligence analysts understood and evaluated potential dangers and communicated them to political leaders. Takedown is a gripping narrative of tracking terrorism during what may be the most exhilarating but trying times the American intelligence community has ever experie ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Edmondson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010198/bk_acx0_010198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 991min
    A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: The crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden The birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy The failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life - he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence - and th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lawrence Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005122/bk_rand_005122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1044min
    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; and 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 our government failed to handle the situation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004614/bk_rand_004614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blumenthal, Max: The Management of Savagery
    Erscheinungsdatum: 07/2020, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Management of Savagery, Titelzusatz: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump, Autor: Blumenthal, Max, Verlag: Verso Books, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Syrien // Reportage // Reporter // Ideologie // Politik // Weltpolitik // Terrorismus // Asien // Geschichte // Naher Osten // Nahost // USA // Zeitgeschichte // Recht // Kommunismus // Marxismus // Staat // Verwaltung // Parteien // Agent // Geheimdienst // Spionage // Spion // Spionageabwehr // Linksextremismus // POLITICAL SCIENCE // Political Ideologies // Communism // Post-Communism & Socialism // International Relations // General // Terrorism // Reportagen und journalistische Berichterstattung oder zusammengestellte Kolumnen // bewaffneter Kampf // Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte // Asiatische Geschichte // Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens // Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken // Kommunal- // Regional // Landes und Lokalregierung // Spionage und Geheimdienste, Rubrik: Politikwissenschaft, Seiten: 392, Herkunft: GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB), Gewicht: 318 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
    A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a 30-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades. In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in half a century - but he was not at all what he seemed. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sunil Malhotra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002691/bk_rand_002691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min
    He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close calls and deception, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor, al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West. Storm is trusted to find al-Awlaki a wife from Europe. She becomes the bait for a possible American drone strike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Shah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000597/bk_pauk_000597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
    In this fascinating audiobook, an expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end? Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists have surged in the United States for the same simple reason: terrorism works. It’s not caused by psychosis or irrationality, as the media often suggests. Instead, it’s terrifyingly logical. Violent acts produce political results.  To show why, Walter Laqueur and Christopher Wall explore the history, rationales, and precepts of terrorism, from the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, through the terror campaigns by Irish and Indian nationalists, and to the Nazis and Italian Fascists.   To explain why terror is on the rise again, they show how the American invasion of Iraq created the conditions for the emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, part of which metastasized into ISIS, while Russia’s increasing intervention in Syria allowed both of the organizations to evolve.  The Future of Terrorism brings reason to a topic usually ruled by fear. Laqueur and Wall show the structural features behind contemporary terrorism: how bad governance abets terror; the link between poverty and terrorism; why religious terrorism is more dangerous than secular; and the nature of supposed “lone wolf” terrorists.   Fear alone provides no tools to combat the future of terrorism. This audiobook does. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Price. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003572/bk_aren_003572_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
    In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way. In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement has fashioned an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the cowboy slogans that characterized the U.S. government's public posture. Adapting themes from classic Cold War deterrence theory, these strategists have expanded the field of battle in order to disrupt jihadist networks in ever more creative ways. Schmitt and Shanker take listeners deep into this theater of war, as ground troops, intelligence operatives, and top executive-branch officials have worked together to redefine and restrict the geography available for Al Qaeda to operate in. They also show how these new counterterrorism strategies, adopted under George W. Bush and expanded under Barack Obama, were successfully employed in planning and carrying out the dramatic May 2011 raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Filled with startling revelations about how our national security is being managed, Counterstrike will change the way Americans think about the ongoing struggle with violent radical extremism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George K. Wilson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002145/bk_tant_002145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    It IS About Islam: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min
    Number-one best-selling author and radio host Glenn Beck exposes the real truth behind the roots of Islamic extremism in Muslim teaching in this sharply insightful audiobook that debunks commonly held assumptions about Islam and the dream of a renewed caliphate. From the barbarians of ISIS to the terror tactics of Al-Qaeda and its offshoots to the impending threat of a nuclear Iran, those motivated by extreme fundamentalist Islamic faith have the power to endanger and kill millions. The conflict with them will not end until we face the truth about those who find their inspiration and justification in the religion itself. Drawing on quotes from the Koran and the hadith, as well as from leaders of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Glenn Beck seeks to expose the true origins of Islamic extremism as well as the deadly theological motivations behind these agencies of destruction. Using the same unique, no-holds-barred style from his best-selling books Control and Conform, Glenn Beck offers straight facts and history about the fundamental beliefs that inspire so many to kill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Lowell, Glenn Beck - introduction. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007160/bk_sans_007160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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