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Against all enemies : inside America's war on terror / Richard A. Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Free Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0743260244
  • 9780743260244
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.931 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6432 .C53 2004
Contents:
1. Evacuate the White House -- 2. Stumbling into the Islamic World -- 3. Unfinished Mission, Unintended Consequences -- 4. Terror Returns (1993-1996) -- 5. The Almost War, 1996 -- 6. Al Qaeda Revealed -- 7. Beginning Homeland Protection -- 8. Delenda Est -- 9. Millennium Alert -- 10. Before and After September 11 -- 11. Right War, Wrong War.
Review: "The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, Richard Clarke has devoted two decades of his professional life to combating terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11. He knows, better than anyone, how President Bush reacted to the attack and what happened behind the scenes in the days that followed. He knows whether or not Iraq presented a terrorist threat to the United States and whether there were hidden costs to the invasion of that country." "Clarke was the nation's crisis manager on 9/11, running the Situation Room - a scene described here for the first time - and then watched in dismay at what followed. After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Coming from a man known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Against All Enemies is both a powerful history of our two-decades-long confrontation with terrorism and a searing indictment of the current administration."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes index.

1. Evacuate the White House -- 2. Stumbling into the Islamic World -- 3. Unfinished Mission, Unintended Consequences -- 4. Terror Returns (1993-1996) -- 5. The Almost War, 1996 -- 6. Al Qaeda Revealed -- 7. Beginning Homeland Protection -- 8. Delenda Est -- 9. Millennium Alert -- 10. Before and After September 11 -- 11. Right War, Wrong War.

"The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, Richard Clarke has devoted two decades of his professional life to combating terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11. He knows, better than anyone, how President Bush reacted to the attack and what happened behind the scenes in the days that followed. He knows whether or not Iraq presented a terrorist threat to the United States and whether there were hidden costs to the invasion of that country." "Clarke was the nation's crisis manager on 9/11, running the Situation Room - a scene described here for the first time - and then watched in dismay at what followed. After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Coming from a man known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Against All Enemies is both a powerful history of our two-decades-long confrontation with terrorism and a searing indictment of the current administration."--BOOK JACKET.

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