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Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia
W.W. Norton
November 2012
On Sale: November 19, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0393082423
EAN: 9780393082425
Kindle: B007Q6XMNS
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A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen
rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the
United States. Far from the battlefields of Iraq
and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting
a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an
unforgiving corner of Arabia.
The Last
Refuge charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of
al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years, detailing how
a group that the United States once defeated has now become
one of the world’s most dangerous threats. An expert on
Yemen who has spent years on the ground there, Gregory D.
Johnsen uses al-Qaeda’s Arabic battle notes to reconstruct
their world as they take aim at the United States and its
allies. Johnsen brings readers in-side al-Qaeda’s training
camps and safe houses as the terrorists plot poison attacks
and debate how to bring down an airliner on Christmas Day.
The Last Refuge is an eye-opening look at the successes and
failures of fighting a new type of war in one of the most
turbulent countries in the world.
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