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050			_aHV6432. _bB47 2011
100	1		_aBergen, Peter L., _d1962-.
245	1	4	_aThe longest war : _bthe enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda / _cPeter L. Bergen ; designed by Carla Jayne Jones.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFree Press, _cc2011.
300			_axviii, 475 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c21 cm.
504			_6“Includes bibliography”—(p. [439]-454).
505			_aContents: Author’s note—Part I : Hubris—Chapter 1 : holy Tuesday—Chapter 2 : explaining 9/11—Chapter 3 : blinking red—Chapter 4 : kicking ass—Chapter 5 : the great escape—Chapter 6 : the destruction of the base—Chapter 7 : the gloves came off—Chapter 8 : home front : the first bush term—Chapter 9 : building the case for war with Iraq—Chapter 10 : the war of error—Chapter 11 : almost losing the war the United States though it had won—Chapter 12 : Al-Qaeda 2.0—Chapter 13 : Al-Qaeda’s Quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction—Part II : nemesis—Chapter 14 : the United States of Jihad—Chapter 15 : Pakistan : the new base—Chapter 16 : the fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state—Chapter 17: the Jihad within—Chapter 18. The end of the “war on terror”?—Chapter 19 : Obama’s war—Chapter 20 : the long hunt—Note on sources—Interviewees—Notes—Bibliography—Acknowledgments—Index.
610	2	0	_aQaida (Organization).
650		0	_aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
650		0	_aTerrorism _z United States.
650		0	_aTerrorism _z United States _x Prevention.
650		0	_aTerrorism _x Prevention.
650		0	_aIraq War, 2003-2011.
650		0	_aIraq War, 2003-.
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