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Blind spot: the secret history of American counterterrorism

By Timothy J , Naftali

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN
9780786736331, 078673633X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
490 kB (501337 bytes)
Pages
xvii, 409 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Violence in Society;Terrorism--Gov

Description

Title Page; Praise; ALSO BY TIMOTHY NAFTALI; Dedication; Preface; CHAPTER ONE -- The Plot to Kill General Eisenhower; The Channels Theory; The War Room; The Postwar Legacy; The KGB and Terrorism; Fears of Terrorism at Home; CHAPTER TWO -- Hijacking; The El Al Hijacking; Terrorism as a Concept; Nixon and the Hijacking Problem; TWA 840; The September 1970 Crises; CHAPTER THREE -- The Lessons of Munich 1972; Solving the Hijacking Problem?; The "No Concessions" Policy; Morocco and Beirut; CHAPTER FOUR -- "There's Very Little We Can Do"; CHAPTER FIVE -- The Lull Before the Storm; Javits and Ribicoff.;Traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World War II to the Munich Games hostage-taking to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

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