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Terrorism

September 11, 2001, was just a single point in an ongoing trend. Terrorism takes many different forms: religious fundamentalism, political extremism from the right or the left, bombings, shootings, stabbings, or cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.These summaries will tell you all about it.

Summaries

10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky
An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M. Hersh
Verso Books, 2016
9 Book

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Oxford UP, 2014
9 Book

Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S.
Trita Parsi
Yale UP, 2007
8 Video

Hackers Will Pose a Greater Threat in 2018
Economist Films
Economist Films, 2017
9 Book

The Looming Tower
Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 2006
9 Book

Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Pantheon Books, 2006
8 Book

Osama bin Laden
Michael Scheuer
Oxford UP, 2011
8 Book

Fatal System Error
The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
Joseph Menn
Public Affairs, 2010
8 Book

Fundamentalism
A Very Short Introduction
Malise Ruthven
Oxford UP, 2007
8 Article

Inside the Cyberattack That Shocked the US Government
Brendan I. Koerner
Wired, 2016