United States of Jihad : investigating America's homegrown terrorists

The Resource United States of Jihad : investigating America's homegrown terrorists

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United States of Jihad : investigating America's homegrown terrorists

Title remainder

investigating America's homegrown terrorists

Statement of responsibility

Peter Bergen

Language

eng

Summary

Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than eighty U.S. citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with the attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, and in San Bernardino. What motivates them, how are they trained, and what do we sacrifice in our efforts to track them? Paced like a detective story, United States of Jihad tells the entwined stories of the key actors on the American front. Drawing on his extensive network of intelligence contacts, from the National Counterterrorism Center and the FBI to the NYPD, Bergen also offers an inside look at the controversial tactics of the agencies tracking potential terrorists; at the bias experienced by innocent observant Muslims at the hands of law enforcement; at the critics and defenders of U.S. policies on terrorism; and at how social media has revolutionized terrorism

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.3250973

Illustrations

illustrations
plates

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6432

LC item number

.B4624 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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