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* Read ! A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb government as the creator of terror suspects to prosecute. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. Lakhani and Siraj were caught through questionable sting operations involving paid informants; both men received lengthy jail sentences. Juxtaposing such stories of entrapment in the United States with narratives from India, another site of multiple terror attacks and state crackdowns, Kumar explores the harrowing experiences of ordinary people entangled in the war on terror. Their convictions
| Title | : | A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822345781 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
lapata said An indispensible report on the war on terror. Since 9/11/01, the War on Terror has served up no major players in the attacks that occurred in the US on that day. Instead, our intelligence gathering systems have produced a string of inadept wannabes, their files released to the press as major coups in the global war. Within days of each arrest, we begin to learn that each of these characters was not the Big Bad that we were originally given to understand.Amitava Kumar's new book zeroes in on some of these specimens of the Global War, and in fine-grained detail examines their deeds, their cases and their role in this on. sepoy said A nuanced and complex book. Amitava Kumar's book takes the pulse of American response to 9/11 at home. His writing is at times lyrical, at times reportage but always precise, focused. He pays as much attention to himself as a subject and object as he does to the people and circumstances he is describing. In alternate chapters, he discusses the prosecution (via sting operations) of two domestic terrorism cases, the response of Indian army to Kashmir, the attempts by artists and thinkers to contextualize the domestic sphere of the global War on Terror. This is a rich, wonderfully written book, deservin. Academic said Accidental Terrorists and Other Little Guys. The major point of this book is that hatred is a failure of the imagination. So along comes Amitava Kumar, cosmopolitan Indian-at-large to remedy this problem. But the failure, it seems, is Kumar's.His book turns terrorism into a problem of brainwashed, provincial little guys, hapless entrapped merchants, and bureaucratic bunglers. He concedes that some terrorists are dangerous, but bracketing that entire issue, he concentrates on his little guys. Turns out Kumar is fascinated that one of the terrorists in the Mumbai attacks is awe-struck by the opulence of the five-star h
The first is that of Hemant Lakhani, a boastful 70-year-old smalltime London clothier arrested in a sting operation delivering a sample shoulder-fired missile to an FBI informant. An arresting and heartrending work of public protest and valuable social analysis, this work contributes forcefully to a subtle, human-scaled accounting of 21st-century geopolitics. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Kumar's searching and humane account of the global consequences of the U.S. In his own reportage, Kumar (Husband of a Fanatic) focuses on two legal cases, in whose details, including his own interviews with the defendants, he astutely deconstructs the logic of what he sees as a burgeoning police state and the global order (or disorder) it encourages. . Kumar covers intellectual and artistic responses to American domestic and foreign security policies, including the work of conceptual artist Hasan Elahi, who after being randomly interrogated by the FBI after 9/11, has
government as the creator of terror suspects to prosecute. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. Lakhani and Siraj were caught through questionable sting operations involving paid informants; both men received lengthy jail sentences. Juxtaposing such stories of entrapment in the United States with narratives from India, another site of multiple terror attacks and state crackdowns, Kumar explores the harrowing experiences of ordinary people entangled in the war on terror. Their convictions were celebrated as major victories in the war on terror. Kumar analyzed the trial transcripts and media coverage, and he interviewed Lakhani, Siraj, their families, and their lawyers. courts on terrorism-re
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