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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Dossier | |
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| Missing | |
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| The Sahara's Bermuda Triangle | |
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| Kidnapped: by Smugglers or Islamists? | |
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| Mokhtar ben Mokhtar, Hassan Hattab and the GSPC | |
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| The First Release of Hostages | |
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| Transferring the Hostages to Mali | |
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| The Final Hostage Release | |
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| Reconstructing Tora Bora | |
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| A New Front in the Global War on Terror | |
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| Expanding the GWOT Across the Sahel | |
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| 'Whodunit' | |
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| The Suspicions of the Tuareg | |
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| Local Knowledge and Research Methodology | |
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| A Diabolical Intelligence Deception | |
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| Grounds for Suspicion in the Algerian Sahara | |
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| Kidnapped on the 'Graveyard Piste' | |
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| The Hostage Liberation | |
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| 'No Assault, No Islamists, No Victims, No Ransom!' | |
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| Who Ordered the Kidnapping? | |
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| The Journey from Tamelrik to Mali | |
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| The Hostage Release in Mali | |
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| Grounds for Suspicion in the Sahel | |
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| Alleged 'Terrorism' in Southern Algeria: August 2003 to Early 2004 | |
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| Military Engagements Flush the GSPC Out of Mali | |
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| The 'Hold-up' of Tourists in A�r | |
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| El Para's Journey to Chad | |
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| Who was El Para? | |
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| The 'Truths' of El Para | |
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| El Para's Biographies | |
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| El Para as a DRS Agent | |
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| El Para as a US 'Green Beret'? | |
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| Phantasmal Terrorists | |
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| El Para's Communications | |
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| El Para's Extradition to Algeria and Trial | |
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| The Last Word on El Para? | |
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| Oil and Empire | |
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| America's Energy Crisis | |
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| The Cheney Report | |
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| The Importance of African Oil to the US | |
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| Algeria's 'Black Decade' | |
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| The Economic Crisis of the Mid 1980s | |
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| From Economic to Political Crisis: 1988-1992 | |
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| A Military Coup by Any Other Name | |
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| Islamists and Eradicators: Algeria's 'Dirty War' | |
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| Who is Killing Who? | |
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| The Beginning of Armed Conflict | |
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| International Support for the Algerian Regime | |
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| The Non-ideological, 'Financial' Dimension of 'Total War' | |
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| State Terrorism and 'Dirty Tricks' | |
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| The 'Banana Theory' of Terrorism | |
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| The Reagan Administration's 'War on International Terrorism' | |
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| New, Post-2000, US-Algerian Relations | |
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| The Opportunity of 9/11 | |
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| US Tardy on Algerian Arms Sales | |
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| Origins of the 'Banana Theory' | |
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| A New Era in US-Algerian Intelligence Relations | |
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| Arak, October 2002: the First Attempt at Hostage Taking | |
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| Planning for the Pan-Sahel Initiative (PSI) | |
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| Preparing the Disinformation | |
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| Contextual Analysis of Algeria's 'Disinformation' | |
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| What Did the Americans Know? | |
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| The Alliance Base: Paris | |
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| Justification for the GWOT and the Link With Iraq | |
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| The Nature of US Intelligence | |
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| An Absence of Terrorism in the Sahel | |
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| 'Back-of-the-envelope' Intelligence | |
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| Confusing Pakistanis: the Tablighi Jamaat Movement | |
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| Inadequate HUMINT | |
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| Parallels with Iraq | |
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| Complicit in Conspiracy | |
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| 'Blowback' and Resistance | |
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| The Tuareg Take Up Arms | |
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| The Dying Sahara | |
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| Proof by Reiteration | |
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| Notes | |
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| List of Jeremy Keenan's Works | |
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| Index | |