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| Prologue: Scattered Crumbs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Encounters | |
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| The Beginning, or the End | |
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| Encountering the Other: Navigating with a Concussion | |
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| The Circling Song: Iraqi Women | |
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| Alone with the Days: Aspirations and Dead Ends | |
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| Distant View of a Minaret: Risks and Subversion | |
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| Into The Labyrinth: Understanding Insurgency on the Ground | |
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| The Harafish: Method Behind the Insurgent Madness | |
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| Midaq Alley Under Insurgent Control | |
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| Soup Sandwich: The Many Insurgencies in Iraq | |
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| Children of Gebelawi: Inside the Sunni and Kurdish Insurgencies | |
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| Gebelawi in His Mansion | |
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| Idris Leaves the Mansion: Global Jihadi Franchises and Local Believers | |
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| The Righteous World of Idris: Jihadists' Use of Force as the Instrument of Control | |
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| Genie in the Room | |
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| Idris in His Element: Suicide Fighters and Suicide Bombers-A Distinction | |
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| Idris's Foibles: Suicide Terrorism and Its World of Enemies | |
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| Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination: The Kurdish Insurgency | |
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| Arabian Nights and Days: Inside the Shia Insurgency | |
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| Night Becomes Day and Day Becomes Night: Another Beginning | |
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| The Self-Perpetuating Sob Story: The Political and Military Strategy of Jaish al-Mahdi | |
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| Fighting JAM: Politics, Strategy, Tactics | |
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| Ode to Procedure: Safety, Security, and Rank | |
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| Arak-Induced Hallucination in Midaq Alley | |
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| Hallucinations and Blind Alleys | |
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| Respected Sir in Hallucinations: Mr. Amer | |
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| Retrospective: A Few Simple Suggestions | |
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| Karnak Caf�: Perception in Counterinsurgency | |
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| Sunday Morning Coming Down: The Beginning, and the End? | |
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| Epilogue: More Scattered Crumbs | |
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| In Memoriam | |
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| About the Book | |