Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience : My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings /

On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bushnell, Prudence, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women ambassadors.
Terrorism > Prevention.
Leadership in women.
Leadership.
Jihad.
Ambassadors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Terrorisme > Prevention.
Leadership chez la femme.
Ambassadeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Ambassadrices > États-Unis > Biographies.
Jihād.
Attentat contre l'ambassade des États-Unis, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998.
Leadership
Ambassadors > United States > Biography.
Women ambassadors > United States > Biography.
United States Embassy Bombing, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998.
United States.
Kenya > Nairobi.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. What happened?
  • The bombing
  • The past as prologue
  • The response
  • The impact
  • The turning point
  • The consequences
  • Part 2. How did it happen?
  • The proxy war
  • The blowback
  • The plots
  • The plans
  • The execution
  • So what?
  • The outcomes
  • Epilogue.

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