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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of Osama bin Laden, radical leader of al-Queda, the international Islamic terrorist organization, including his involvement in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Author
Publisher
Forum
Language
English
Description
In August 1998 two powerful car bombs exploded simultaneously outside U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. In Nairobi, the force of the blast shattered windows more than a quarter mile away. Less than two weeks later the United States retaliated by launching cruise missiles directed against terrorist camps in both Afghanistan and Sudan. The real target, however, was one man who has become the symbol of Islamic terror. "Our...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Peter Bergen takes the reader onto the battlefields of Afganistan as bin Laden goes from a shy quiet, teen to a leader; he brings you into Osama's intimate family life as he lives under the radar in Sudan, then Afganistan; he puts you right in al Quida's very first meeting; and he uses eyewitness accounts to relate what bin Laden said, and thought on 9/11 as he watched the twin towers fall.
6) Ground Zero
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, in which two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center, and the rescue and recovery work that occurred afterwards.
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