The dark Sahara : America's war on terror in Africa / / Jeremy Keenan

• Autore: Keenan Jeremy
• Pubblicazione: London, : Pluto Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.931
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism - Sahara; Terrorism - Sahel; Terrorism - Government policy - United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• Soggetto geografico: United States Military relations Algeria; Algeria Military relations United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Dossier -- Missing -- 1. The Sahara's Bermuda Triangle -- Kidnapped: by Smugglers or Islamists? -- Mokhtar ben Mokhtar, Hassan Hattab and the GSPC -- The First Release of Hostages -- Transferring the Hostages to Mali -- The Final Hostage Release -- 2. Reconstructing Tora Bora -- A New Front in the Global War on Terror -- Expanding the GWOT Across the Sahel -- 3. 'Whodunit' -- The Suspicions of the Tuareg -- Local Knowledge and Research Methodology -- A Diabolical Intelligence Deception -- 4. Grounds for Suspicion in the Algerian Sahara -- Kidnapped on the 'Graveyard Piste' -- The Hostage Liberation -- 'No Assault, No Islamists, No Victims, No Ransom!' -- Who Ordered the Kidnapping? -- The Journey from Tamelrik to Mali -- The Hostage Release in Mali -- 5. Grounds for Suspicion in the Sahel -- Alleged 'Terrorism' in Southern Algeria: August 2003 to Early 2004 -- Military Engagements Flush the GSPC out of Mali -- The 'Hold-up' of Tourists in Aïr -- El Para's Journey to Chad -- 6. Who was El Para? -- The 'Truths' of El Para -- El Para's Biographies -- El Para as a DRS Agent -- El Para as a US Green Beret? -- Phantasmal Terrorists -- El Para's Communications -- El Para's Extradition to Algeria and Trial -- The Last Word on El Para? -- 7. Oil and Empire -- America's Energy Crisis -- The Cheney Report -- The Importance of African Oil to the US -- 8. Algeria's 'Black Decade' -- The Economic Crisis of the Mid 1980s -- From Economic to Political Crisis: 1988-1992 -- A Military Coup by Any Other Name -- 9. Islamists and Eradicators: Algeria's 'Dirty War' -- Who is Killing Who? -- The Beginning of Armed Conflict -- International Support for the Algerian Regime -- The Non-ideological, 'Financial' Dimension of 'Total War' -- State Terrorism and 'Dirty Tricks'. ; 10. The 'Banana Theory' of Terrorism -- The Reagan Administration's 'War on International Terrorism' -- New, Post-2000, US-Algerian Relations -- The Opportunity of 9/11 -- US Tardy on Algerian Arms Sales -- Origins of the 'Banana Theory' -- A New Era in US-Algerian Intelligence Relations -- Arak, October 2002: the First Attempt at Hostage-taking -- Planning for the Pan-Sahel Initiative (PSI) -- 11. Preparing the Disinformation -- Contextual Analysis of Algeria's 'Disinformation' -- What Did the Americans Know? -- The Alliance Base: Paris -- Justification for the GWOT and the Link with Iraq -- 12. The Nature of US Intelligence -- An Absence of Terrorism in the Sahel -- 'Back-of-the-envelope' Intelligence -- Confusing Pakistanis: the Tablighi Jamaat Movement -- Inadequate HUMINT -- Parallels with Iraq -- Complicit in Conspiracy -- 13. 'Blowback' and Resistance -- The Tuareg Take Up Arms -- The Dying Sahara -- Proof by Reiteration -- Notes -- List of Jeremy Keenan's Works -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The dark Sahara
• ISBN: 1-84964-282-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816762603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II