TY - BOOK AU - Bergen,Peter L. TI - The longest war : : the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda / SN - 9780743278935 AV - HV6432. B47 2011 PY - 2011///. CY - New York : PB - Free Press, KW - Qaida (Organization). KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. KW - Terrorism KW - United States. KW - United States KW - Prevention. KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011. KW - Iraq War, 2003-. N1 - Contents: Author’s note—Part I : Hubris—Chapter 1 : holy Tuesday—Chapter 2 : explaining 9/11—Chapter 3 : blinking red—Chapter 4 : kicking ass—Chapter 5 : the great escape—Chapter 6 : the destruction of the base—Chapter 7 : the gloves came off—Chapter 8 : home front : the first bush term—Chapter 9 : building the case for war with Iraq—Chapter 10 : the war of error—Chapter 11 : almost losing the war the United States though it had won—Chapter 12 : Al-Qaeda 2.0—Chapter 13 : Al-Qaeda’s Quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction—Part II : nemesis—Chapter 14 : the United States of Jihad—Chapter 15 : Pakistan : the new base—Chapter 16 : the fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state—Chapter 17: the Jihad within—Chapter 18. The end of the “war on terror”?—Chapter 19 : Obama’s war—Chapter 20 : the long hunt—Note on sources—Interviewees—Notes—Bibliography—Acknowledgments—Index ER -