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This book analyzes the complex causes and effects of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks both domestically and internationally, and examines the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Maps
Afghanistan
Iraq
The Middle East
1. Overview: The Rise of Osama bin Laden and Global Terrorism
2. The 9/11 Attacks
3. Operation Enduring Freedom and the Invasion of Afghanistan
4. Civil Liberties and the War on Terror
5. Operation Iraqi Freedom
6. The Global War on Terror
7. The Insurgency in Iraq
8. The Insurgency in Afghanistan
9. U.S. Politics, the War on Terror, and Iraq
10. The Obama Presidency and the War on Terror
Chronology
Biographies
Ayad Allawi
Osama bin Laden
Tony Blair
George W. Bush
Richard B. "Dick" Cheney
Jacques Chirac
Hillary R. Clinton
Muammar Gaddafi
Robert M. Gates
Rudolph W. L. "Rudy" Giuliani
John Dennis Hastert
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Saddam Hussein
Hamid Karzai
John F. Kerry
Nouri al-Maliki
John S. McCain
Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad
Pervez Musharraf
Barack H. Obama
Daniel Pearl
Nancy Pelosi
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Thomas J. Ridge
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Gerhard F. Schröder
George J. Tenet
Paul D. Wolfowitz
Abu Musab al Zarqawi
Primary Documents
1. The Invasion of Kuwait and UN Security Council Resolutions 660 and 678 (1990)
2. President Clinton's Speech on Iraq and WMD Inspections (1998)
3. Regime in Iraq as U.S. Policy: The Iraq Liberation Act (1998)
4. Osama bin Laden's Fatwa Urging Jihad against the United States (1998)
5. The 9/11 Commission Report, "Counterterrorism Evolves" (2004)
6. George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, September 20, 2001 (2001)
7. UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)
8. The USA PATRIOT ACT (2001)
9. George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002 (2002)
10. Preemption and the National Security Strategy of the United States(2002)
11. The Congressional Authorization to Use Force against Iraq (2002)
12. UN Security Council Resolution 1441: Iraq and WMDs (2002)
13. Hans Blix's Report on Iraqi Compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (2002)
14. Tony Blair's Iraq War Speech (2003)
15. Bush's Ultimatum to Saddam (2003)
16. The Iraq Survey Group's Interim Report on Iraq's WMD Programs (2004)
17. Declaration by NATO and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2006)
18. The Iraq Study Group Reports on the Rise in Violence in Iraq (2006)
19. Obama's Cairo Speech and U.S.-Muslim Relations (2009)
20. Obama: The Way Forward in Afghanistan (2009)
21. Obama's National Security Strategy (2010)
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Tom Lansford is academic dean and a professor of political science at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Long Beach, MS.

Reviews

The volume's strength is its tying together of various events, discussed in essays that are presented in chronological order. . . . In general, this is a fine companion to Spencer C. Tucker's more general Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars (ABC-CLIO, 2010). . . . Appropriate for high school, academic, and public library reference and circulating collections.
*Library Journal*

The narrative is longer and more in-depth than those found in most reference works. It is also reasonably objective and unbiased—very important for such a controversial subject.
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