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Objective Troy says the gripping and unsettling history of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated North american imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a guy who ultimately aimed his outsized abilities to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It uses Barack Obama's advertising campaign from the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism programs and his eventual embrace of the targeted killing of suspected militants. And it recounts how the president aimed the mammoth machinery of spy agencies to hunt Awlaki down in a frantic, multimillion-dollar quest that could end with the fatality of Awlaki by the bizarre, robotic technology that is changing warfare: the drone. Scott Shane, who has protected terrorism for The New York Times over the last ten years, weaves the clash between chief executive and terrorist into both a riveting narrative and a deeply human accounts of the defining turmoil of our era. Awlaki, who aimed a storyline that almost derailed Obama's presidency and then taunted him from his desert hideouts, will decrease ever sold as the first USA citizen intentionally hunted and assassinated by his own federal government without trial. But his eloquent telephone calls to jihad, amplified by YouTube, continue to lure young Westerners into terrorism - leading to tragedies from the Boston marathon bombing to the murder of cartoonists at a Paris each week. Awlaki's life and fatality show how profoundly America has been improved by the threat of terrorism and by our very own concerns. Illuminating and provocative, and predicated on years of in-depth reporting, Target Troy is an excellent reckoning with the moral task of terrorism and a masterful chronicle of the times.
