And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
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map of, 170
Obama and, 182–83
officials killed by bomb in, 179
Palmyra, 199–200
Qamishli, 175
Raqqa, 199
Tal Abyad, 199
uprising and civil war in, 138, 156, 163, 166, 171–90
US intervention and, 181, 190
Tabligh wa Dawa, 36–38, 43, 45
Ta’e, Uday al-, 71, 78, 84
Taher, 184, 187
Tahrir Square:
demonstrations in, 151–54, 157, 166–67
shooting in front of Egyptian Museum, 23–27, 51
Tal Abyad, 199
Taliban, 17–18, 46, 130, 137, 144
Tanzania, 27
technology, 152
Internet, 131, 135–36, 141, 142, 152, 155, 172, 180, 215
phones, 152, 174, 180
Tehran, 150
Tel Aviv, 61, 123
Temple Mount, 55–58, 63
terrorism, 27, 67, 87, 132–33, 138, 146–47
Iraq war and, 146, 147
real estate law of, 142
war on, 130, 139, 146–47
Tigris River, 76, 78, 84, 94, 103
Tobruk, 158, 159, 162, 163
Today, 188
Todd, Chuck, 182
Topkapi Palace Museum, 39
Tora Bora, 130, 144
Trabelsi, Leila, 151
Transjordan, 4
Tripoli, Lebanon, 135
Tripoli, Libya, 160–68
Tulkarm, 51, 62
Tunis, 150–51
Bardo National Museum in, 200
Tunisia, 6, 136, 150–52, 159, 166, 205–6, 208
Sousse rampage in, 200
Turkey, 173–75, 188, 194, 206, 209, 214
Istanbul, 29, 156–57
Tyre, 4, 120, 122
Umayyads, 92
Umm al-Fahm, 123
Umm Qasr, 79, 83
Unification Church, 16
United Arab Emirates, 4–5
United Nations (UN), 62, 64, 97, 119, 178
and war between Israel and Lebanon, 122, 124
Security Council, 123, 216, 217
UNESCO, 199
United States, 5, 6, 9, 11, 35, 36, 38, 91
in Afghanistan war, 129–30
CIA of, 46, 129, 130, 137, 146, 174, 194
Crusades and, 30, 34, 139
Fifth Fleet of, 157
in Gulf War (1991), 8, 60, 64, 82, 86, 93, 155
Middle East policy of, 5, 35, 155, 156, 157, 169, 181, 209, 216–17
Iran nuclear deal and, 216
Iraq invaded by, 50, 70, 72, 76–87, 93, 95, 102, 107, 108, 115, 128–30, 132, 146, 215
in Iraq war, see Iraq war
Marines of, 135
State Department of, 174
Syrian uprising and, 181, 190
veterans in, 131
Uthman, 92
Uzo Hotel, 159–60
Vietnam War, 125
Vikings, 29
Wahhab, Mohammed Ibn, 40
Wahhabis, 4, 21, 36, 38–43, 195
jihadists, 45
Ottomans and, 39–40
Saudi Arabia and, 40–42, 47
spread of, 41–42
Wailing Wall (Western Wall), 56
Wajjeh, 112–13
Wall Street Journal, 172
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 64, 86, 129, 131, 132
Wedeman, Ben, 158, 159
West Bank, 11, 53–55, 58, 60, 61, 64, 124, 214
map of, 48
Operation Defensive Shield in, 62
WGBH, 63
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 3, 33
Williams, Brian, 192
Winograd Commission, 121
witchcraft, 45
women, 15, 18, 20
World, The, 63
World War I, 32–34
Middle East reorganized following, 1, 3, 4, 6, 33–35, 138
World War II, 5, 35, 105, 126, 159
Wye River Memorandum, 53
Yazid, 92–93
Yemen, 168, 213
Yom Kippur War, 57
Young Turks, 3, 32–33
YouTube, 172, 215
Zarfar, 71, 72–73, 75
Zarqa, 133
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 96–98, 102, 105, 133, 143, 181, 205, 215
bin Laden and, 96, 98, 107, 131–32
death of, 106–7, 132
Internet and, 131
ISIS and, 96, 107, 132, 191, 192
videos of, 96, 132
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 27–28
bin Laden and, 27–28, 143
Zawiya, 161
Zintan, 165–66
Zionism, 19–21, 51, 77
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