Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail

Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail

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When President Bush announced in a televised speech the week after September 11 that he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," a grieving America seeking justice and revenge roared in agreement. Two years later, as al Qaeda's associates mounted almost weekly attacks against U.S. interests and bin Laden still a free man, Americans are wondering why. With both the American military and the media declaring the war in Afghanistan over and a resounding success, respected war correspondent Philip Smucker examines in this book what kind of victory they can rightfully claim...

Author: Philip G. Smucker
Format: Hardback, 229 pages, 160mm x 240mm, 476 g
Published: 2004, Potomac Books Inc, United States
Genre: Regional History

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When President Bush announced in a televised speech the week after September 11 that he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," a grieving America seeking justice and revenge roared in agreement. Two years later, as al Qaeda's associates mounted almost weekly attacks against U.S. interests and bin Laden still a free man, Americans are wondering why. With both the American military and the media declaring the war in Afghanistan over and a resounding success, respected war correspondent Philip Smucker examines in this book what kind of victory they can rightfully claim...