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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (édition 2017)

par Lawrence Wright (Auteur)

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"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how Al Qaeda and its core cult-like beliefs have morphed and spread. They include: a picture of Saudi Arabia under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; Israel and Hamas waging war over Gaza. Others continue to look into Al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of terror in the world. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and a head of the CIA. It ends with the recent devastating capture and beheadings by ISIS of four American journalists and how our government handled the situation"--… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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Info:Vintage (2017), Edition: Reprint, 464 pages
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A collection of Wright's essays on terror published in 2016. The first three chapters are, basically, part of his award-winning The Looming Tower, covering al-Zawahiri, John O'Niell, and Ali Soufan. The rest of the chapters cover other things, namely: Saudi society, the Spanish al-Qaeda attacks, Syrian film directors, al-Zarqawi and Iraq, Michael McConnell, Dr. Fadl's switch on jihad, Gaza, and Western hostages taken by groups in Syria. Some chapters are light, like the Saudi one, others gripping and sad, like the ones on the captives. Others are straight reportage. The most interesting to me what "The Rebellion Within" on Dr. Fadl's philosophical support for jihad, then his philosophical retreat from jihad. An epilogue rounds things out. A few things. In this book, Wright's liberal tendencies come out a bit more, with a few side swipes at the Bush administration ("The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history" [p. xiii].) But, he lays ISIS at Bush's feet, not Obama's. And even though Obama does not come across very well in the chapter on American hostages, none of his actions is labeled "one of the greatest blunders." I wonder what Wright would write after Trump's policies (as of August 2020) rolled back and defeated ISIS, kept us out of a quagmire in Syria, left a mostly stable Iraq, hamstrung Iran, and normalized relations between Israel and the U.A.E. (with Saudi Arabia and others likely to follow). I bet it wouldn't be flattering, as liberal Austinites like Wright can't see past their conceits, biases, and hatreds. I would have liked to have seen a chapter on the hunt for and death of Bin Laden, which only received brief mention. The book has the air of a collection of essays, being thrown together. No source notes this time. A decent read, though incomplete. ( )
  tuckerresearch | Aug 21, 2020 |
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"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how Al Qaeda and its core cult-like beliefs have morphed and spread. They include: a picture of Saudi Arabia under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; Israel and Hamas waging war over Gaza. Others continue to look into Al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of terror in the world. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and a head of the CIA. It ends with the recent devastating capture and beheadings by ISIS of four American journalists and how our government handled the situation"--

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