TY - BOOK AU - Bergen,Peter L. TI - The longest war: The enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda SN - 9780743278935 AV - HV6432 .B46 2011 U1 - 909.83/1 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - Qaida (Organization) KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - Terrorism KW - United States KW - Prevention KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-452) and index; Holy Tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- Blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The destruction of the base -- The gloves came off -- Home front: the first Bush term -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- Pakistan: the new base -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war -- The long hunt N2 - New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010015268-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010015268-d.html ER -