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Authors: Gwynne Dyer

Tags: #History, #Middle East, #General, #Modern, #21st Century, #Political Science, #Terrorism, #World, #Middle Eastern, #Social Science, #Islamic Studies

Don't Panic: Isis, Terror and the Middle East (22 page)

22.
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan,
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict
, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
23.
Agence France Presse
in Beirut, 10 April 2013.
24.
The Washington Post
, 13 May, 2014.
25.
Al Jazeera
, 8 March 2014.
26.
These rules, which were posted in public places throughout Mosul, have appeared on the Internet in various translations and even in a somewhat different order. See, for example, AINA News, 14 June 2014.
27.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-us-degrade-ultimately-defeat-isis-al/story?id=25261946
28.
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/28/statement-president
29.
London
Sunday Times
, 29 March 2015.
30.
Translation by Pieter van Ostaeyen on his website Musings on Arabism, Islamicism, History and Current Affairs,
pietervanostaeyen.wordpress.com/
31.
www.timminspress.com/2014/01/17/crown-recalls-curious-case-of-andre-poulin
32.
Mail & Guardian
, Africa, 26 April, 2015.
33.
The exchange is quoted in Jay Sekulow, Jordan Sekulow, Robert W. Ash and David French,
The Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015).
34.
BBC News
, 17 November 2014.
35.
Twenty-eight pages of
The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
, which deal with the Saudi role in the 9/11 atrocity, remain redacted more than a dozen years after the event.
36.
(p. 106) Churchill’s comment to his personal secretary John Colville on 21 June 1941, the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

GWYNNE DYER has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern history from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada’s Royal Military College. Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 175 newspapers around the world.

Table of Contents

Map

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. To Understand All Is Not to Forgive All …

2. It’s Not Always About You

3. Jihad: The Afghan Phase, 2001–2003

4. Jihad: The Iraqi Phase, 2003–2006

5. Jihad: The Iraqi Phase, 2006–2010

6. Jihad: Iraq and Syria, 2010–2013

7. The Caliphate at Last!

8. In Search of a Strategy

9. Foreign Fighters and Franchise Wars

10. The Lesser Evil

Notes

About the Author

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