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A chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took 52 Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. Journalist Bowden tells the story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers sent to free them, their radical captors, and...

Presents an account of the experiences of the first American hostage to be freed from Iran due to his development of the disease multiple sclerosis.

Describes the efforts of negotiators to gain the release of the Americans held in the embassy in Iran.

The author tells of his 444 days as an Iranian hostage and makes thoughtful recommendations on dealing with terrorism that are bound to be controversial and widely discussed.

With 1980 fast approaching, and the crisis nowhere near ending, the situation takes on a life of its own in American and Iranian media. After diplomatic efforts to secure the hostages' release fail, and their fates become more dire, President Carter launches a rescue operation - with disastrous results.

Our own private Bin Laden studies the relationship between economic structures of "terror" and "the war on terror," their interdependencies, and the consequential creation of the Bin Laden industry. The film explains why the world after September 11, 2001 is less the result of an act of terror but more the product of decisions made following 1945.

"Why did a handful of Iranian students seize the American Embassy in Tehran in November 1979? Why did most members of the US government initially believe that the incident would be over quickly? Why did the Carter administration then decide to launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis examines these puzzles and others, using an analogical reasoning approach to decision-making, a theoretical...