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Title The spiders of Allah : travels of an unbeliever on the frontline of holy war / James Hider.
Author Hider, James.
Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  956.054 HID    Check Shelves
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 323 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Introduction : Al-Qaeda goes to Hollywood -- Jaffa Road : the transmitter of hopes and fears -- The Mickey Mouse death club : the dirt lot of the Philistines -- Fallen idols, risen angels : into Iraq -- Cut adrift : freedom's city -- Bring 'em on : the birth of an insurgency -- Translator wars : learning to pity the US Proconsul -- In Babylon's halls : tourism under fire -- Ancient feuds : a festival of blood in Karbala -- City of broken mosques : how the spiders of Allah defeated the US Marine Corps -- Two in the heart, one in the mind : battlefields of the soul -- Death in the Venice of the East : three summers in Basra -- Inside the spider's web : the fall of Fallujah -- Pandora's sandbox : bombs, beheadings, and bullshit -- Creatures of the id : why we fight -- Epilogue : Canaanite karma.
Subject Hider, James -- Travel -- Middle East.
Religious fundamentalism -- Middle East.
Crime -- Middle East.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects.
Religion and politics -- Middle East.
Crime -- Religious aspects.
Terrorism -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Description and travel.
Middle East -- Religion.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
ISBN 0312565852 (pbk.)
9780312565855 : $14.95
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