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Bezig met laden... The 9/11 Wars (2011)door Jason Burke
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From the author of Al-Qaeda, Jason Burke's The 9/11 Wars is an essential book for understanding the dangerous and unstable world of the twenty-first century. On September 11th 2001, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks, terrorists destroyed New York's World Trade Center and a substantial portion of the Pentagon. Since the Twin Towers fell, the world has seen the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the downfall of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, bombings, battles and riots. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the 'war on terror'. Whether reporting on the riots in France or the attack on Mumbai, suicide bombers in Iraq or British troops fighting in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, Jason Burke's The 9/11 Wars, named 2011 Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Economist and Independent, tells the story of a world that changed forever when the hijacked planes flew out of the brilliant blue sky above Manhattan on September 11th. 'The best overview of the 9/11 decade so far in print' Economist 'A magisterial history of the last decade' Pankaj Mishra, Guardian 'At a time when there are more books out on terrorism than ever before ... this is likely to be among the best' Sunday Telegraph 'Potent ... journalism of a high order ... essential for understanding the past decade' Sherard Cowper-Coles, Sunday Times Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for the Guardian. He has reported around the world for both the Guardian and the Observer. He is the author of two other widely praised books, both published by Penguin: Al-Qaeda and On the Road to Kandahar. He lives in New Delhi. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Bagram, Fallujah, Abu Ghraib and all the other minor and major crimes and scandals have already escaped down the memory hole. The book doesn't dwell too much on them either. Instead, a big part of the book deals with the often neglected chapter of the terrorist attacks in the Netherlands, Spain and England. These terrorist actions and attempts were not masterminded by Al Qaeda but by local disaffected and alienated copy cats. Local police and social work, not foreign adventures, are the keys to solve and prevent future attacks.
On the foreign policy front, the author correctly puts Pakistan at the front and center of the problems in Afghanistan. He curiously fails to discuss the malignant roles of either Israel or Saudi Arabia (15 out of 19 ...) in the Middle East. The sudden Arab Spring nearly torpedoed the author's book project and is only hastily inserted into the story, It also reveals the author's bias towards his rich Egyptian/Arab buddies. Nevertheless, the book is still a valuable history of a turbulent decade that nicely complements the many often US-centric accounts. When the US hopefully exits Afghanistan in 2014, it will be possible to write a full story of the Bush wars. (