In this Book
- Hatred at Home: al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Ohio University Press
One day in 2002, three friends— a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African American—met in a Columbus, Ohio, coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Their conversation triggered an investigation that would become one of the most unusual and far-reaching government probes into terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Over several years, prosecutors charged each man with unrelated terrorist activities in cases that embodied the Bush administration’s approach to fighting terrorism at home. Government lawyers spoke of catastrophes averted; defense attorneys countered that none of the three had done anything but talk. The stories of these homegrown terrorists illustrate the paradox the government faced after September 11: how to fairly wage a war against alleged enemies living in our midst.
Hatred at Home is a true crime drama that will spark debate from all political corners about safety, civil liberties, free speech, and the government’s war at home.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Author’s Note
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Part 1: Morning
- pp. 13-14
- 1. Call to Prayer
- pp. 15-31
- 2. The Gymnast
- pp. 19-22
- 3. Split Personality
- pp. 23-25
- 4. Increasing Tensions
- pp. 26-27
- 5. On the Move
- pp. 28-31
- 6. Hardworking Truck Driver
- pp. 32-35
- 7. Little Mujahideen
- pp. 36-39
- 8. Diaspora
- pp. 40-41
- 9. Ready at Any Time
- pp. 42-58
- 10. Four Hundred Years
- pp. 46-49
- 11. Busy Summer
- pp. 50-52
- Part 2: Night
- pp. 53-54
- 12. We Need People Who Can Vanish
- pp. 55-57
- 13. Collateral Damage
- pp. 58-60
- 14. Winning the War on Terror
- pp. 61-62
- 15. A Great Chapter
- pp. 63-66
- 16. I’m Doing This as a Friend
- pp. 67-72
- 17. Material Support
- pp. 73-78
- 18. Guilty
- pp. 79-81
- 19. A Secret, Double Life
- pp. 82-89
- 20. Get This Done
- pp. 90-93
- 21. Shopping Mall Plot
- pp. 94-99
- 22. A Symphony of Unfairness
- pp. 100-103
- 23. Life Goes On
- pp. 104-105
- 24. Atypical Psychosis
- pp. 106-108
- Part 3: Evening
- pp. 109-110
- 25. Radical Role-Playing
- pp. 111-116
- 26. American Soil
- pp. 117-119
- 27. Bureaucratic Sloth
- pp. 120-124
- 28. Dirty Numbers
- pp. 125-131
- 29. Disturbing
- pp. 132-135
- 30. The Ummah Is Angry
- pp. 136-140
- 31. Changing of the Guard
- pp. 141-145
- Conclusion
- pp. 146-152
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 153-156
- Bibliography
- pp. 187-188