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The Jihad Next Door : The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror

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Overview

Dina Temple-Raston uncovers a strange corner of the war on terror in Lackawanna, New York, home of the first homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist cell in America. Or was it? The "Lackawanna Six" were young men, born of Yemeni families long settled in upstate New York, who took a trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent time in an al-Qaeda training camp--long before the specter of 9/11, before most people had even heard of Osama bin Laden, and before the existence of the Homeland Security Act. This is a story of preemptive imprisonment for an act of terrorism never committed, a terrorist cell that may not even have been a cell, and a mysterious al-Qaeda contact who was supposedly killed but whose remains were never found. The Jihad Next Door is a book that forces a reevaluation of the casualties of the war on terror.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781433202025
  • ISBN-10: 1433202026
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish Date: August 2007
  • Dimensions: 5.91 x 5.36 x 0.68 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds

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