| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Reasonable cause to suspect -- Chapter 2 ""I'm here now -- Chapter 3 The misnomer of ""Jihadi Jack -- Chapter 4 Jack in Syria -- Chapter 5 East Timor and West Papua: ""La luta continua -- Chapter 6 In search of British Islam -- Chapter 7 Thames Valley Police and the Mounties -- Chapter 8 Police raid -- Chapter 9 Seeking an antidote -- Chapter 10 The Tabqa dam -- Chapter 11 Money for glasses -- Chapter 12 Anti-radicalization -- Chapter 13 Arrest -- Chapter 14 Photosynthesis in a capitalist society |
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Chapter 15 Lack of joined-up thinking -- Chapter 16 Westminster Magistrates Court -- Chapter 17 Prison -- Chapter 18 Bail appeal -- Chapter 19 No dogs, no Irish, no terrorists -- Chapter 20 Imprisoned by ISIS -- Chapter 21 Chilcot inquiry and U.K. ISIS returnees -- Chapter 22 The terrorism of cheese -- Chapter 23 Evidence and the drone strike -- Chapter 24 Crusaders and infidels -- Chapter 25 The return of Lady A. -- Chapter 26 Heading for the border -- Chapter 27 Raqqa, a city under siege -- Chapter 28 Escape from ISIS territory -- Chapter 29 ""Disappeared"" in Rojava |
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Chapter 30 Canada to the rescue? -- Chapter 31 Geopolitics and the borders with DFNS -- Chapter 32 Lead-up to Old Bailey trial -- Chapter 33 Clive and John in Canada -- Chapter 34 Delegations to Rojava: Red Cross and the Labour party -- Chapter 35 ""Duress"" is not a defence -- Chapter 36 Jack becomes a Canadian election issue -- Chapter 37 Finally, contact -- Chapter 38 FCO Disclosure -- Chapter 39 Jack's prison interview and Shamima Begum -- Chapter 40 The trial -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
"In a story of deceit, betrayal, and injustice, two parents are tried as terrorists for attempting to rescue their son from a Syrian war zone. On September 2, 2014, Jack Letts, an idealistic eighteen-year-old British Canadian, phoned his mother saying, "Mum, I'm in Syria." Those chilling words from a raging war zone set in train his family's eight-year-long battle to rescue Jack from his disastrous mistake. When an unscrupulous journalist invented the term "Jihadi Jack," a false image of Jack spread throughout the world. Sally and John, Jack's parents, faced the mammoth task of persuading a hostile public that their son was the victim of a smear campaign. He should, they argued, at least be allowed home to face a fair trial to address the claims against him. But the Canadian and British governments had other plans. Jack is currently detained in a Kurdish prison, while the Canadian government claims it doesn't know if he is alive or dead. This is his parents' story of their painful struggle to persuade the world to save the son they love."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Issued also in print format |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2023) |
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Lane, Sally (Mother)
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Letts, Jack, 1995-
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Mothers -- Canada -- Biography
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Political prisoners -- Syria -- Biography
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Mothers
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Political prisoners
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001320
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Canada
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Syria
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781459750951 |
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1459750950 |
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9781459750968 |
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1459750969 |
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