The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

In this new book, Keenan reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel.

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The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

In this new book, Keenan reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel.

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The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

by Jeremy Keenan
The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

by Jeremy Keenan

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In this new book, Keenan reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745329628
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 03/26/2013
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Keenan is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has written many books including The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009). He acts as a consultant to numerous international organisations on the Sahara and the Sahel, including the United Nations, the European Commission and many others.

Table of Contents

1. P2OG: A Long History of False-Flag Terrorism
2. The US Invasion of the Sahara-Sahel
3. Repression and Terrorism Rents
4. Footing the Bill. Did the World Bank Fund State Terrorism?
5. Putting the GWOT Back on Track
6. New Tuareg Rebellions
7. Uranium Goes Critical: Why the Tuareg Took Up Arms
8. The Fifth Anniversary of 2003: Another Kidnap
9. The Creation of AFRICOM
10. The Future Ground Zero
11. Perfidious Albion: the Murder of Edwin Dyer
12. Drugs and the Threat of Western Intervention
13. Al Qaeda in the West for the West
14. ‘Washing the Mountain’. Desert Borders, Corruption and the DRS
15. Sarkozy Declares War on Al Qaeda
16. Opening the Gates of Hell
17. The Past Catches Up: Pressures on Algeria
18. The ‘Arab Spring’ and Gaddafi Intervene
19. War crime?
20. Preparing for the ‘Long War’
Notes
Index

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