The great war of our time : the CIA's fight against terrorism--from al Qa'ida to ISIS / Michael Morell with Bill Harlow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781455585663 (hardback)
  • 1455585661 (hardback)
  • 9781455589616 (large print hardcover)
  • 1455589616 (large print hardcover)
  • 9781455590551
  • 145559055X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JK 468 .I6 M665 2015
Contents:
Opening salvos -- The President and the Sheikh -- The darkest hours -- The finest hours -- An imperfect storm -- Al Qa'ida's nine lives -- No Mickey Mouse operation -- Al Qa'ida spring -- 9/11/2012 -- Stalking points -- Tortured logic -- Breach of trust -- The long war ahead -- Carved in stone.
Summary: "Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin Laden was brought to justice." Morrell offers "an assessment of [the] CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and,...shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"Called the "Bob Gates of his generation," Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all--the only person with President Bush on 9/11/01 and with President Obama on 5/1/11 when Usama Bin Laden was brought to justice." Morrell offers "an assessment of [the] CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and,...shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad."-- Provided by publisher.

Opening salvos -- The President and the Sheikh -- The darkest hours -- The finest hours -- An imperfect storm -- Al Qa'ida's nine lives -- No Mickey Mouse operation -- Al Qa'ida spring -- 9/11/2012 -- Stalking points -- Tortured logic -- Breach of trust -- The long war ahead -- Carved in stone.

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