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121) The Dark Detective
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He used to be the best saboteur in the school, the legendary avenger from hell, but now he is a dark detective! He claims that he only investigates big cases, but he is always asked by the Criminal Investigation Department to deal with trivial matters. Until one day, an ordinary insurance fraud case involves a group of extreme criminal gangs, followed by a series of murder and kidnapping cases and murder factories, "seven deadly sins" murder, etc.,...
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Esta obra está dirigida a investigadores y estudiantes de humanidades y Ciencias sociales interesados en el tema del Desplazamiento Interno Forzado, contiene los resultados de un proyecto ejecutado por los grupos de investigación GIDHUM de la Universidad del Norte y el GIDES de la Universidad San Buenaventura de Cartagena, con el financiamiento de Colciencias, que permitió delimitar el proceso de construcción/reconstrucción de la identidad social...
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From MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares, this is a frightening look into the future of jihad. Though an alarming new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future, Walid Phares reveals how the United States can win the war. Phares, who served as an expert with the Justice Department, briefed the Defense and State Departments, and testifies to Congress, shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about al Qaeda's ultimate...
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Eight years after the horrific attacks of September 11th, misunderstanding and distrust between Islam and the West are still as rampant as ever. In this new and fully revised edition of his critically acclaimed book, Joseph Lumbard collects a series of essays that explain not only the veil of misconceptions which lie at the heart of Western attitudes towards Islam, but also the rise of "fundamentalism" within Islam itself, which most Muslims do not...
126) Never Quit The Fight
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Drawing on his global experiences from Africa to Iraq, author Ralph Peters, attacks today's crucial issues of our time head-on, with the clear eye and blunt voice, that has won him, a devoted following.
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
128) Wet Rain
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Two sisters-in-law find themselves working together to solve an international plot which they are clueless about in the beginning.
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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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Foreign-sponsored terrorist attacks aimed at conquering American communities and US territory have not yet become a reality. Such attacks, though not probable, are unfortunately not impossible. Actual events and even fictional stories about terrorism, both domestic and foreign, are often far removed from American communities and the reality of most people's everyday lives.
The Ghosts of Gaylord challenges that reality by dropping the devastation...
131) 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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Occidente, llorarás por mí es una novela de intriga que narra la investigación de un pequeño suceso que poco a poco deja entrever la mayor amenaza yihadista jamás sufrida por un país. El protagonista, Miguel Aguirre, un hombre curtido en el exigente trabajo de los agentes secretos, es el encargado de resolver este rompecabezas a partir de la comprobación casi rutinaria de un incidente que, poco a poco, se va mostrando como el pico de un iceberg...
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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,...
135) FATWA
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What would you do if an Islamic death threat, or "fatwa," was issued against you? Where would you run to? How would you hide?
In this electrifying short-story account, New York Times best-selling author Thomas M. Kostigen describes escaping from Iranian assassins who descend upon his Beverly Hills home seeking retribution for charges in his latest novel, Golden Dawn, in which he writes about a maniacal ayatollah.
Just as thrilling and fast-paced as...
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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...
137) Golden Dawn: A Novel
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Golden Dawn is a high-octane international thriller from a seasoned journalist and New York Times bestselling nonfiction author Thomas Kostigen.
Trailing his IRA bomber uncle, journalist Michael Shea stumbles onto the biggest story of his life: a plot to smuggle nuclear material into Iran. Discovered and marked for death, Shea flees the Iranian secret service. His only help comes from the beautiful mystic Neda Ghazali, a member of the ancient sect...
138) 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...
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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...
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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...
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