Table of Contents

Introduction
The Dossier
Missing
1. The Sahara's Bermuda Triangle
2. Reconstructing Tora Bora
3. 'Whodunit'
4. Grounds for suspicion in the Algerian Sahara
5. Grounds for suspicion in the Sahel
6. Who was El Para?
7. Oil and Empire
8. Algeria's black decade
9. Islamists and Eradicators: Algeria's 'Dirty War'
10. The Banana theory of terrorism
11. Preparing the disinformation
12. The nature of US intelligence
13. 'Blowback' and resistance
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jeremy Keenan is Professor of Social Anthropology and Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Keenan is a recognised authority on the Sahara, and the author of many books including The Sahara: Past, Present and Future, The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar, Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg and The Lesser Gods of the Sahara. He has also produced several widely acclaimed films on the Sahara and its peoples, in whose company he has travelled thousands of miles into some of the most remote and unknown corners of the desert. He is also a consultant to the UN and other international organisations.