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Eleventh Day
With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive account of 9/11 we may ever read. For millions in the West, September 11, 2001 is the darkest day in living memory. The terrible attacks in America sent a shock around the world that reverberate to this day. Ten years on, Osama bin Laden is dead, but the questions remain. What exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and bad information arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what remains unresolved? "The Eleventh Day" investigates the response of President Bush and the U.S. military, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. It documents the inaccurate official stories told afterwards, considers the contentions of the '9/11 Truth' movement, analyses the motives behind the onslaught, exposes the blunders by U.S. intelligence before the attacks, and notes how the Bush administration tried groundlessly to link Iraq to 9/11. And the book confronts the question the 9/11 Commission failed to answer: were the terrorists backed by powerful figures in other foreign nations? Riveting, revelatory and unforgettable, "The Eleventh Day" is the essential one-volume work on a pivotal episode in our history.
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Spartan
At the height of the Iranian revolution a British MI6 agent, James Cochrane, gave his life for his two closest friends - one a fellow British officer, the other a senior CIA operative. Caught in a sting, he chose to walk into the trap set for them so that his friends could escape.The man who set up that sting was then a young Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Today he is better known as Megiddo - the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind. Thirty years later, Will Cochrane may work for MI6 but he doesn't enjoy playing by the rules his bosses set him.His controller Alastair knows that Will is a wild card and should be thrown out of the service, but his very unpredictability may be just the weapon the West needs to bring down its most ruthless enemy, particularly when Will discovers that Megiddo was the very man responsible for his own father's horrific death. When Will discovers that MI6 have tracked down a woman who once had an affair with the young Iranian guard, he knows that he can use her to set a trap. She has to be persuaded to lure Megiddo out from the shadows in which he moves but Megiddo may have other plans for, as per his biblical namesake, he is planning an attack on the West the likes of which the world has never seen. The stakes could not be higher...
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Decision Points
President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor's Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.
President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.
A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history—and the man at the center of events.
George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.
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The Price of Darkness
DC Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as a fait accompli, and abroad in a world where money is easy and respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, Winter is in his element—worryingly so. Concerns among his superiors that Winter may finally have had too much temptation put in his path are soon supplanted by two vicious murders. First, a high-profile local property developer is shot, with clinical efficiency, in his own bed. A few days later, a government minister is assassinated while his car is stuck in a traffic jam. A fevered investigation begins with Winter's erstwhile boss, detective inspector Faraday, in charge. With clues hard to come by, the government panicking, and the anti-terrorist branch circling, Faraday is shoved off the case and left in charge just of the investigation into the property developer's murder. Faraday is also tasked with keeping track of Winter and soon discovers that Winter, the arch-conspirator, has been set up. As Winter begins to realize what his bosses had in mind for him and Faraday begins to put together the pieces of a heartbreaking story of personal and political betrayal that may well link the two murders, The Price of Darkness becomes a study of the desperate measures some people take when their friends and their society let them down.
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In the Shadow of No Towers
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey--with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit--the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.
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Elveszett holnap
Jack Reacher, a világutazó volt katona a mai napig nem felejtette el a kiképzés során szinte a vérévé vált technikákat. Minden rezdülésre felfigyel, a szeme sarkából nézi a körülötte állókat, agya pedig rögzít minden olyan apró mozzanatot, amely elüt az átlagostól. Az utóbbi pár percben például egy nőt figyel, aki a felületes szemlélő számára csak egy a többi fáradt utazó közül, akik a New York-i metrón haladnak úti céljuk felé. Reacher éles szeme azonban azokat a jeleket is észreveszi, amelyeket mások nem. Látja, hogy az asszony testtartása megváltozott, az arckifejezése zavart. És már azt is tudja, kinél látott ilyen viselkedést korábban: a robbantásra készülő öngyilkos merénylőknél... Reacher tudja, hogy pillanatokon belül szörnyű katasztrófa színhelye lehet a zsúfolt metrókocsi, ezt pedig mindenáron meg kell akadályoznia. Odalép a nőhöz, ám próbálkozása kudarcba fullad: a nőt már semmi sem térítheti el szándékától. Zsebéből fegyvert ránt elő, és egy pillanat múlva fejbe lövi magát.
Titkos kapcsolatok, terrorista merényletek, emberrablás bonyolítja tovább a fordulatos cselekményt. Miért ölte meg magát a Pentagon személyzeti osztályán dolgozó nő? Hogyan köthető az ügyhöz a Vörös Hadsereg egykori tisztje és Oszama bin Laden? Vajon Reacher fényt deríthet-e a titkos üzelmekre?
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Európa halála
2050-ben járunk. Magyarország túl van egy újabb parlamenti választáson, és a miniszterelnöknek nincs könnyű dolga. Az országban lassan egymillió muzulmán vallású ember él, és közel a felük arab származású. A magyarok száma nyolcmillió alá csökkent. Az Arab-félszigeten már fél évszázada matematikai modellekkel tervezik a jövőt. Semmi sem történhet úgy, hogy ne látnák előre. Megérett az idő, hogy a Dinasztia lépjen. Valami folyik a háttérben, de senki sem látja egészben a kirakós minden darabkáját. Zsitvai László, a frissen kinevezett nemzetbiztonsági tanácsadó igyekszik úgy lavírozni, hogy minden az ő érdeke szerint alakuljon. Ezalatt az iszlám hitet felvett Siroki Mariann pszichológus egy olyan elméletet állít fel Budapesten, amely alapjaiban változtatja meg a terror elleni háborút. Ám a terroristák is változtatnak a taktikán, és a nőnek másodszor ismeg kell találnia a megoldást. A terror elleni háború tényleges színterén, az utcákon azonban egyre nagyobb a káosz. Hamza főhadnagy, a rendőrség mesterlövésze nem elvek és elméletek mentén dolgozik, hanem a kőkemény valóságba lép ki minden nap. És neki meg kell húznia a ravaszt. A geopolitikai dilemmák egy házaspár mindennapjaiban is megjelennek, és az átlagember szintjén kell döntést hozniuk: hogyan tovább? Meg kell-e hajolniuk a hatalom előtt? Meg lehet-e változtatni a globális politikát? Vagy egyszerűen csak a saját életüket kell menteniük? Mert másra talán nincs is lehetőség... Réti László azokat a problémákat feszegeti letehetetlenül izgalmas bestsellerében, amelyek napról napra egyre erősebben határozzák meg mindennapjainkat, jövőnket.
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Életszonáta
Valahol Dél-Amerikában, az ország alelnökének pazar villájában fényűző partit adnak a világ egyik legbefolyásosabb emberének, Mr. Hoszokavának a tiszteletére. A politikusokból és üzletemberekből álló nemzetközi vendégsereget szinte megbabonázza a han
gjával Roxane Coss, a világhírű szoprán énekesnő, az operák ünnepelt sztárja. Mindenkit magával ragad az előadás. Tökéletes este - egészen addig a percig, míg egy terroristacsoport be nem ront az épületbe, és túszul nem ejti a vendégeket. Az álom egy
szerre rémálommá változik. Akik az egyik pillanatban még az operaénekesnőnek tapsoltak, a következőben már az életükért reszketnek. A katonaság körülzárja a házat, és nem hajlandó teljesíteni a terroristák követeléseit. A helyzet pattanásig feszül, a
tragédia bármelyik pillanatban bekövetkezhet. De ahogy telnek a hónapok, a túszok és fogva tartóik egyre jobban megismerik egymást, és szép lassan barátságok, sőt szerelmek szövődnek köztük. Miközben a falakon kívül a katonaság véres leszámolásra ké
szül, odabent mintha megállna az idő, és már sem a terroristák, sem foglyaik nem szeretnék, ha a különös túszdráma véget érne. Azt azonban mindannyian sejtik, hogy ez az idilli állapot nem tarthat örökké...
Ann Patchett 1963-ban született Los Angeles
ben. Az Életszonáta a negyedik regénye, amelyet már több mint 30 nyelvre fordítottak le, és amelyért megkapta a PEN/Faulkner-díjat és az adott év legjobb írónőjének járó Orange-díjat is.
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Finish - The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
"There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention Black Hawk Down ."" - A senior Obama administration official, as quoted in The New York Times, 02/05/2011 From Mark Bowden, internationally bestselling and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and the preeminent chronicler of the actions of the US military and special forces writing today, comes an intensely gripping account of the hunt for and elimination of Osama bin Laden. With unprecedented access to key sources and his great gift for storytelling, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and where the action unfolded. The story focuses on bin Laden, who maintained a steady stream of despairing correspondence in hiding in the year before his death, and on President Obama, perceived by many as an anti-war candidate because of his opposition to the Iraq War, whose evolving views and enormous responsibilities have turned him into one of the most determined warriors to ever inhabit the White House. It details the rapid evolution of war-fighting methods over the last decade, as American special forces and intelligence agencies have adapted to fight non-state enemies like Al-Qaeda, and how they came together seamlessly in May 2011 to kill the world's most notorious terrorist. Tracing the operation in blow-by-blow detail, Bowden's book is an unrivaled account of the most high-profile special forces operation ever to have been undertaken, and a page-turning narrative of how the man behind 9/11 was finally brought to justice."
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Királyi fortély
Cotton Malone és 15 éves fia, Gary Európába utazik, elvállalva, hogy magukkal visznek Angliába egy otthonról elszökött tinédzsert. Ám Londonban fegyveresek várják őket, a szökevény Garyvel együtt eltűnik, és Malone egyszeriben egy magas szintű diplomáciai adok-kapok kellős közepén találja magát. A tét egy líbiai terrorista szabadon engedése, amely ellen az amerikai kormány fölháborodva tiltakozik, de nem tudja beavatkozásra bírni a brit hatóságot.
Talán a Királyi fortély fedőnevű akcióval sikerülhet? A CIA irányította akció célja az, hogy megoldjon egy több évszázados rejtélyt, amely alapjaiban rendítheti meg Nagy-Britannia királyságának intézményét.
Gyilkosok, árulók, kémek és egy titkos társaság veszélyes tagjainak a gyűrűjében Malone halálos csapdába kerül. Hogy megmentse Garyt, az egyik árulót kell a másik ellen kijátszani, - és csak a Tudor-ház féltve rejtegetett hihetetlen titkának a leleplezésével tudja megelőzni a Királyi fortély megsemmisítő következményeit.
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The Pigeon Tunnel
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian 'John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ...they were a journey into the wider world ...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi
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Falak mögött
Min múlik, hol arat a halál?
Európát szíven találta a két évtizedes migrációs hullám. Sötét korszak köszöntött ránk.
A kontinens déli és keleti határát hat méter magas építmény, a Fal szegélyezi, géppuskákkal, mesterlövészekkel. Tűzparancs van érvényben. Ezrek halnak meg, mert megkísérlik átmászni vagy áttörni a falat.
A kontinenshez tartozó szigetvilág elveszett. Szicília, Kréta, Ciprus, Málta földjén anarchia tombol; nincs jog, nincs rend, csak forrongó, reményvesztett embertömeg.
Radnai Margit az Európai Bevándorlási Hivatal tapasztalt ügynöke ebben a világban próbálja megvédeni azt, ami számára igazán fontos. A sajátjaiért áll ki, akárcsak a többiek: a budapesti egyetem fiatal, vérforraló elveket hangoztató tanára, New York-i könnyelmű oknyomozó újságírónő, és a világszerte körözött, hidegvérű muszlim terrorista.
Vajon könnyű célpont Magyarország?
Réti László letehetetlen, izgalmas akcióregénye a nem is oly távoli, sötét jövőt mutatja be, kíméletlen pontossággal. Éleslátás, profizmus, dermesztető vízió. A szerző volt nyomozótiszt, minden szava hiteles, amikor arról ír, ami vérre megy. A Célpont Párizsban című thrillerében egyszer már megjósolta a szörnyű jövőt. Vajon most is igaza lesz?
Húzzuk ki a fejünket a homokból, amíg nem késő. Készülj fel, ismerd meg a jövőt!
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Wolfhound Century
A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind. The endless forest and its antique folk lore are no concern to Inspector Vissarion Lom, summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown terrorism with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head at the children's home. Lom's investigation reveals a conspiracy that extends to the top echelons of the party. When he exposes who - or rather what - is the controlling intelligence behind this, it is time for the detective to change sides. Pursued by rogue police agents and their man-crushing mudjhik, Lom must protect Kantor's step-daughter Maroussia, who has discovered what is hidden beneath police headquarters: a secret so ancient that only the forest remembers. As they try to escape the capital and flee down river, elemental forces are gathering. The earth itself is on the move.
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The Second Coming of the KKK
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line-its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century.
As prize-winning historian Linda Gordon demonstrates, the second Klan's enemies included Catholics and Jews as well as African Americans. Its bigotry differed in intensity but not in kind from that of millions of other WASP Americans. Its membership, limited to white Protestant native-born citizens, was entirely respectable, drawn from small businesspeople, farmers, craftsmen, and professionals, and including about 1.5 million women. For many Klanspeople, membership simultaneously reflected a protest against an increasingly urban society and provided an entree into the new middle class.
Never secret, this Klan recruited openly, through newspaper ads, in churches, and through extravagant mass "Americanism" pageants, often held on Independence Day. These "Klonvocations" drew tens of thousands and featured fireworks, airplane stunts, children's games, and women's bake-offs-and, of course, cross-burnings. The Klan even controlled about one hundred and fifty newspapers, as well as the Cavalier Motion Picture Company, dedicated to countering Hollywood's "immoral"-and Jewish-influence. The Klan became a major political force, electing thousands to state offices and over one hundred to national offices, while successfully lobbying for the anti-immigration Reed-Johnson Act of 1924.
As Gordon shows, the themes of 1920s Klan ideology were not aberrant, but an indelible part of American history: its "100% Americanism" and fake news, broadcast by charismatic speakers, preachers, and columnists, became part of the national fabric. Its spokespeople vilified big-city liberals, "money-grubbing Jews," "Pope-worshipping Irish," and intellectuals for promoting jazz, drinking, and cars (because they provided the young with sexual privacy).
The Klan's collapse in 1926 was no less flamboyant, done in by its leaders' financial and sexual corruption, culminating in the conviction of Grand Dragon David Stephenson for raping and murdering his secretary, and chewing up parts of her body. Yet the Klan's brilliant melding of Christian values with racial bigotry lasted long after the organization's decline, intensifying a fear of diversity that has long been a dominant undercurrent of American history.
Documenting what became the largest social movement of the first half of the twentieth century, The Second Coming of the Ku Klux Klan exposes the ancestry and helps explain the dangerous appeal of today's welter of intolerance.
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True Tale of the Monster Billy
For fans of Room by Emma Donoghue, an extraordinary novel about a child who is kept incarcerated - from the bestselling, prizewinning author of Skellig Billy Deane is the child of an illicit relationship between a priest and a young hairdresser. He is born on the very day that terrorists attack his town, and the fact that he survives and flourishes persuades his father that he is a special child with special gifts. Even so, Billy's birth can't be made public, and he spends his chidhood in a single room, dreaming of other worlds, occasionally visited at night by his father. When the visits come to a sudden end, his mother decides it's time for Billy to come out into the world, helped by a couple of friendly townspeople, and soon he finds that his supposed gifts bring him a certain celebrity. But his father hasn't gone for good, and there's a terrible reckoning still to be made. David Almond's first adult novel is a brilliant account of a child long kept hidden from the world who finally finds that he can establish his place in it - only to be confronted with a past that won't go away. 'A lovely book, full of wonderments. Billy's memories have real lyricism and a beguiling narrative voice' Sunday Times 'Not only dramatically and emotionally suspenseful, it is also vividly drawn and wonderfully well-paced, as we might expect from a master storyteller' John Burnside, Guardian David Almond is the author of Skellig and other novels and plays for children. He has won many distuinguished awards including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010, the Carnegie Medal and two Whitbreads.
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Lacná kniha True Tale of the Monster Billy
For fans of Room by Emma Donoghue, an extraordinary novel about a child who is kept incarcerated - from the bestselling, prizewinning author of Skellig Billy Deane is the child of an illicit relationship between a priest and a young hairdresser. He is born on the very day that terrorists attack his town, and the fact that he survives and flourishes persuades his father that he is a special child with special gifts. Even so, Billy's birth can't be made public, and he spends his chidhood in a single room, dreaming of other worlds, occasionally visited at night by his father. When the visits come to a sudden end, his mother decides it's time for Billy to come out into the world, helped by a couple of friendly townspeople, and soon he finds that his supposed gifts bring him a certain celebrity. But his father hasn't gone for good, and there's a terrible reckoning still to be made. David Almond's first adult novel is a brilliant account of a child long kept hidden from the world who finally finds that he can establish his place in it - only to be confronted with a past that won't go away. 'A lovely book, full of wonderments. Billy's memories have real lyricism and a beguiling narrative voice' Sunday Times 'Not only dramatically and emotionally suspenseful, it is also vividly drawn and wonderfully well-paced, as we might expect from a master storyteller' John Burnside, Guardian David Almond is the author of Skellig and other novels and plays for children. He has won many distuinguished awards including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010, the Carnegie Medal and two Whitbreads.
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Seal Target Geronimo
SEAL TARGET GERONIMO is the inside account of the Bin Laden Mission, told by the men who were there to the only author they trusted, a former SEAL commander. On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: ''Geronimo, Echo, KIA''. These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. This is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission both inside the building and outside. Pfarrer takes readers inside the operation as the SEALs flew over the wall of Bin Laden's shabby compound and then penetrated deeper and deeper into the terrorist's lair, telling us just what it looked, sounded, and smelled like in that sweltering Pakistani suburb. He takes us to the exact spot where the al-Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valour, clockwork military precision, and deadly accuracy carried out by one of the most elite fighting forces in the world the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six.
International Law and the Use of Force
This book explores the whole of the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law; it examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the growing importance of regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the publication of the second edition of International Law and the Use of Force the law in this area has continued to undergo a fundamental reappraisal. Operation Enduring Freedom carries on against Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan six years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Can this still be justified as self-defence in the 'war on terror'? Is there now a wide right of pre-emptive self-defence against armed attacks by non-state actors? The 2006 Israel/Lebanon conflict and the recent intervention of Ethiopia in Somalia raise questions about whether the 'war on terror' has brought major changes in the law on self-defence and on regime change. The 2003 invasion of Iraq gave rise to serious divisions between states as to the legality of this use of force and to talk of a crisis of collective security for the UN.In response the UN initiated major reports on the future of the Charter system; these rejected amendment of the Charter provisions on the use of force. They also rejected any right of pre-emptive self-defence. They advocated a 'responsibility to protect' in cases of genocide or massive violations of human rights; the events in Darfur show the practical difficulties with the implementation of such a duty.
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Becsapódás
Wyman Fordot, a CIA egykori ügynökét Kambodzsába küldik, hogy járjon utána egy titokzatos, mézszínű kőnek, amely nemrég tűnt fel az illegális drágakőpiacon. A kő, bár elsőre gyönyörűnek tűnik, halálos veszedelmet hordoz, és terroristák kezébe kerülve könnyen veszélyes fegyverré válhat. Amikor azonban Ford végre rábukkan a kövek lelőhelyére, egy sokkal nagyobb rejtéllyel találja szembe magát: a drágakövet egy igen különös kráterből nyerik ki - mintha valami a Föld belsejéből tört volna elő hatalmas erővel...
És ez nem az egyetlen ilyen kráter. Ford egy egyetemista lány segítségével hasonlóra bukkan a maine-i partvidéken, és ezzel kezdetét veszi a versenyfutás az idővel, amelynek a tétje nem más, mint a világ sorsa.
Douglas Preston lebilincselő regénye izgalmas földkörüli utazást ígér, újabb és újabb fordulattal szolgálva egészen a megdöbbentő végkifejletig.
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