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El narcotráfico creó una forma de vida con consecuencias nefastas en las nuevas generaciones, sin dimensionar el daño colateral que generaron los carteles, los capos y la mafia. Veinte años después de la muerte de Pablo Emilio Escobar, el Patrón, Jineth Bedoya, junto con el equipo de investigación de el diario El Tiempo, cuentan cómo funcionaba el país, el por qué del éxito del narcotráfico durante tantas décadas y cómo se ha ido desmantelando...
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In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style-powerful, lively, and accessible,...
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Forty days and forty nights of torrential rain swell the Mississippi River to the brink of deadly rampage. Clementine Price, a young Army Corps of Engineers officer born beside the river, draws on science, brutal loss, and a warrior spirit to protect the people and the homeland she loves from a catastrophic flood. Suddenly, she discovers that a richly funded domestic terrorist-hiding in plain sight as a pillar of the community- has ingeniously weaponized...
84) Terrorism
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In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to his foreign guests as "freedom fighters." These were the Afghan mujahideen. In August 1998, another American president ordered missile strikes from the American navy based in the Indian Ocean to kill Osama bin Laden and his men in the camps in...
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The Greatest Power on Earth
is about to be
Stripped of its Defenses
Alpha Base. It's the home of America's nuclear stockpile, over 5,000 warheads protected by a formidable high-tech security system deep in the salt flats of Nevada.
If Alpha Base is ever penetrated, no one on earth will be safe….
From the heart of remote Africa, a terrorist army has launched a daring plot.
Their objective: seize Alpha and steal its deadly cache of...
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This book was inspired by the unrest, indifference, and the covert actions of foreign governments interfering in the political or military affairs of Middle Eastern states all for the purpose of national security of those foreign nations. Religious and radical factions operating within the borders of those Middle Eastern States felt disenchanted and oppressed by outsiders and had resorted to terrorism as a way of persuading those foreign...
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Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime and call for a reexamination of the complex connections...
88) Point of Refuge
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James Leforte, former SAS sniper and MI6 operative, relocates to the United States after a disastrous US-British joint operation. Leforte takes over for his uncle, a sheriff in North Dakota. Now Leforte must deal with the local crime family, the theft of nuclear material, and a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon in downtown Bismarck. To complicate an already-dangerous situation, someone from Leforte's past reemerges and is hell-bent on revenge:...
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Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. In launching military and propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of economic independence waged by Al-Qaeda. The Patriot Act boosted the black market economy, and the war on terror...
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The year is 1999. A tourist is killed, saving hundreds of innocent people at the Washington Air and Space Museum. A shadowy group calling itself DEFCON One claims responsibility for what is undeniably an act of domestic terrorism. The FBI believes the group is a covert terrorist cell within an overt right-wing militia, based in Wyoming. Recruited by the FBI, Gabriele Barnes, the grieving wife of the victim, agrees to go undercover as a confidential...
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By means of interviews with, and contributions from, prominent international figures, Axis of Freedom examines the dramatic world events which unfolded from 11 September 2001 to the end of occupation of Iraq in the summer of 2004. Many books have been written on the war on terror, but none include the personal views and opinions of so many top military and political leaders. The contributions are linked by a series of essays to form a compelling narrative...
92) Slater
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The son of the Governor becomes a hero when terrorists take over his college campus and he sets out to stop them.
93) Wailers
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People die like a lamp, no complaints into the reincarnation. When people are born, they need a stable woman to deliver them, and when they die, they need someone to send them on the road to the Yellow Springs and into the reincarnation ......
I am the one who sends them into the cycle of reincarnation. The day my grandmother died, I defied the ancestral rule and became a crybaby ......
94) Tomb Hunt
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Tomb raiding, it is not only a long-standing industry, or a profound study with multiple elements, sometimes it can also be a destructive force, the vocation is to destroy all the factors that prevent it from moving forward, only by using it, it can make the thousand-year-old treasure buried deep in the ground to see the light of day again. The truth of history will thus be restored.
Hu Bayi, a gold-digging lieutenant full of many legends, my...
96) Inferno Demon
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Late at night, pouring rain "clattering" down, from the dark night air swept down, the whole of Hong Kong big shaking mountain bathed in a fierce rain net mist.
"Boom" with a terrible sharp thunder and instant white lightning shine, a black Mercedes-Benz car drove to the north side of the mountain halfway up the new Conrad Hospital door.
Only to see the flashing lights of the five-story hospital building in the rumbling black night rainstorm...
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It's 1963, and the Cold War is at its peak in the United States. As the country worries about the threat of Russia; Collinsburg, New Jersey buzzes with controversy from the Gentler manor. Ben Gentler is the oldest son of the rich and well-respected family, but Ben's rebellious nature clashes against his father's strict wishes. After tensions strain, Ben and his best friend, Lenny Williams, embark on a ship to leave their troubles behind and to travel...
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No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"-where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away-can be attested to by its many victims.
Now Raheem Kassam, a courageous reporter and editor at Breitbart, takes us where few journalists have dared to tread-inside the No Go Zones, revealing areas that Western governments, including the United States,...
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Fondés il y a plus de vingt ans à l'instigation de Patrick Pépin et de Pierre Bourdieu, qui en signait le premier article, Les Cahiers du journalisme prennent un nouveau départ. Cette seconde série associe désormais la perspective d'une revue de réflexion ouverte à des analyses et points de vue variés (Les Cahiers du journalisme - Débats), à celle d'une revue de recherche internationale publiant des dossiers, articles et notes soumis à...
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They were so close to a cure. And, no one cared. Why should they? Americans would not care about malaria until their own children woke screaming with the fever, until they started burying small caskets in their own country. Su Thom picked up the flask. It was only a tiny sample, but it wouldn't be hard to culture. The idea was so simple. So horrible. So perfect. Americans did not care about anything until it was a threat to their own people. Well...
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