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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816124303321

Autore

McCarthy Andrew C

Titolo

Willful blindness : a memoir of the Jihad / / Andrew C. McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, : Encounter Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-74854-8

9786612748547

1-59403-448-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

363.325

363.32509747/1

363.325097471

Soggetti

Terrorism - New York (State) - New York

Terrorism - Psychological aspects

Jihad

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the United States, the frontline was the courtroom. So while a diffident American government prosecuted a relative handful of ?defendants," committed militants waged a campaign of jihad?holy war?boldly targeting America's greatest city, and American society itself, for annihilation. The jihad continues to this day. But now, fifteen years after radical Islam first declaredwar by detonating a complex chemical bomb in the heart of th