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7 An anise-based spirit from Southern France.
8 A wine-based French aperitif flavored with quinine and aromatic herbs.
9 Derogatory term for private military and security contractors who offer the services of combat-ready military operators indistinguishable from mercenaries.
10 Anonymous maxim in many languages, meaning roughly, “Necessity knows no law.”
11 An Arabic word whose literal meaning is “tremor” or “shaking” but which is commonly translated as “uprising” or “rebellion.” It is used most often to describe Palestinian uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza to resist Israeli occupation of those territories.
Chapter Three: Clausewitz of Counterinsurgency
1 National Security Council.
2 A document issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (an arm of the Department of Homeland Security) certifying that the holder enjoys permanent resident alien status in the United States.
3 Korematsu vs. United States, the much-reviled 1944 Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
4 An Islamic legal system derived from the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad.
Chapter Four: Islamic Youth
1 Forbidden.
2 Traditional South Asian attire consisting of baggy pants (shalwar) and a long untucked shirt (kameez).
3 Ultra-conservative school of Sunni Islam that looks back to prior eras of Islamic history when considering how the contemporary world should be ordered.
Chapter Five: Triage
1 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
2 An Arabic word meaning an oath of loyalty or allegiance.
Chapter Eight: Common Ground
1 Executive Office Building.
2 Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility refers to a special room to which only people with high-level clearance have access, and that meets strict government requirements intended to prevent sensitive classified materials within the room from being compromised by technical intelligence means.
Chapter Ten: Temptation
1 An historic meeting of senior Nazi officials in January 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to enlist cooperation from various government departments to round up Jews in German-occupied Europe and send them to extermination camps in Poland.
Chapter Eleven: Missing
1 International mobile subscriber identity-catcher (IMSI-catcher) is a telephone eavesdropping device that can be used to identify the subscriber of a nearby mobile phone and intercept its calls. It can also be used to track the physical location of a mobile caller.
Chapter Nineteen: Repatriation
1 Motherland
2 The Tuareg people are nomadic goat and camel herders who inhabit the Sahara desert from southwest Libya through Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso into northern Nigeria.
3 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a North African affiliate of Al-Qaeda that seeks to overthrow the governments of Algeria and neighboring countries.
Chapter Twenty: Assodé
1 Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE) is a self-contained individual field ration in lightweight packaging issued to U.S. military personnel where standard food facilities are not available.
2 Truth and reconciliation is a process designed by human rights activists to heal the effects of war crimes and human rights abuses by giving victims, witnesses and perpetrators an opportunity to tell their stories publicly without fear of prosecution. Its goal is to uncover relevant facts, sort truth from lies, and allow opposing sides to mourn, forgive and heal.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Limbo
1 The Fourth Republic was the republican government of France between 1946 and 1958, as established by the constitution of 1946. The Fourth Republic was dissolved by referendum in 1958 following the Algerian Crisis of that year and was replaced by the modern-day Fifth Republic under a new constitution.
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