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Mouth-dropping, heart-stopping tale........2007-09-25
Truly a wonderful book. Full of courage, selflessness, love and sacrifice. I've never read a better book outside the Bible. Unforgettable.
Motivating and Captivating.......2007-08-31
This book was absolutly wonderful! I highly recommend it to anyone planning to do a mission's trip or considering missions, or just anyone!
Bruchko.......2007-02-13
This was a gift for my son. I was happy to find it after its being recommended to me.
Great Book.......2007-01-04
Was one of the few books that I have had to read for a boook report that I actually enjoyed reading. In fact I passed it on to friends and they too enjoyed the book. We should all be willing to do for Christ what Bruce Olson did
nice.......2006-11-18
Bruchko shows us how to introduce the faith of Christianity through a peoples normal culture.
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A Visit With an Old Friend.......2007-08-04
The original Bruchko book is one of my favorite books of all time. So when I heard he had written a second book which updated his story into the present day, I purchased it quickly. It was like getting reacquainted with an old friend. You see Bruchko grappling with the losses of Gloria and Bobarishora. You see his spirit rekindled after hearing a couple of the younger Motilones speaking at a peace conference. You feel his joy as the nation of Columbia recognizes that 420 acres of jungle land belong to the Motilone people (truly known as the Bari people).
The first 36 pages rehash the first Bruchko book, while the rest of the volume brings the story into the present day (with occasional looks back into the past).
You get to read the details of Bruce's entanglements with terrorist groups and drug dealers. You get his first person account of his brutal 1988 abduction by the ENF and his mixed feelings about the current direction the Motilones are taking. You get the sense that the younger Motilones want to modernize more and t forego some of the tribal traditions that Bruce has been trying hardf to safeguard. Yet Bruce is confident in the Lord that Gode will continue to raise up Motilones who walk in our Lord's trail.
If you love the first book, you'll definitely want this one, too. But this is also a good place to start even if you have never heard of Bruchko.
Truth is stronger than fiction.......2006-10-18
After hearing Bruce Olson speak over a year ago and reading his first book, Bruchko, I have researched every magazine article and other source I could find on the life of this very special man. So when the sequel came out I was very excited to order my copy. It does an excellent job of filling in the later years, right up to the present.
The gripping story of Olson's unorthodox life in the Amazon jungle challenges every stereotype we may have of missionaries. As a passionate and driven 19-year-old, he left a comfortable, bookworm existence in Minnesota and followed his God-given dream to travel to South America, where he was violently captured by a reclusive, murderous tribe of stone age Indians. And he has lived with them ever since!
Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle unfolds all the events that have happened in Olson's life with the Indians, who are now transformed into a productive and positive cultural force in Colombia. It covers the account of Olson's unbelievable response to his kidnapping and captivity in 1988 by one of the armed rebel groups using the jungle as their base of operations.
There are so many reasons why I was attracted to this story. It's a high adventure journey filled with love, suffering, resurrection, social redemption, and victory over evil. I'd like to see the movie made -- and made on a big scale, because it would enthrall audiences more than the most elaborate Hollywood action film. In this case, truth is stronger than fiction!
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Bruchko
Bruce Olson
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OLSON BRUCE
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Bruchko
Bruce E. Olson
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Bruchko
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Bruce E. Olson
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Bruce Olsen
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Until now there was no overview of the air war in Vietnam and the debate it has produced--a debate in which some historians argue that the U.S. could have won the war if it had employed more air power. Frankum fills this gap by deftly tying together the air campaigns over North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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Air War Vietnam Operational Overview.......2005-04-19
Author Frankum has done a very credible job of explaining the development of the air war during the protracted Vietnam War. He has quite appropriately limited his text to the application of airpower into six mission areas, each distinct yet related to the others. He follows a generally chronological progression in the narrative which leads the reader on a natural course. For anyone who is not familiar with the escalation of US involvement in Southeast Asia, this book will provide one of the better overviews of both the strategic and tactical arenas, from humble beginning of small training and advisory cadres, building to massive air forces and missions covering the entire spectrum of airpower. This book is not so much entertaining as it is informative, but in this application it is one of the better books of this sort. While the author makes no attempt to give a comprehensive view of the broader diplomatic and international impacts and implications of America's war in Vietnam, he provides sufficient insight to allow the reader to generally understand how other events evolve relative to air power. The text contains very good maps, giving the reader more than the usual detail as to the locations of air operations. He includes excellent additives in the form of explanations of acronyms and abbreviations, brief descriptions of virtually all aircraft involved in the war and a particularly complete Bibliographical Essay, from which the historically determined reader will find really good complimentary readings. Some minor editorial lapses will distract the expert readers, particularly the misidentifying of aircraft and their capabilities; however, the overall quality of supportive data is excellent and gives sufficient detail to validate the text. The relative neophyte to this chapter of American warfare will find this book very useful and it is recommended to those so inclined.
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World War Three has erupted. Yet few know the nature of the enemy we fight. As one of the countryÂ's youngest geopolitical analysts, Ryan Mauro, at age 18, has contributed to important intelligence and national security groups, written in many publications, and has been widely recognized on talk radio for his insight into this enemy. In the run-up to the Iraq War, Mr. Mauro was approached by many to discuss Saddam HusseinÂ's sponsorship of terrorism and possible links to the attacks of September 11th, as well as Saddam and Bin LadenÂ's weapons of mass destruction programs. In this stunning open-source investigation, Mr. Mauro reveals the truth about the existence of Iraqi WMD programs and their movement into other countries, Saddam HusseinÂ's role in helping Osama Bin Laden attack the free world, and the ongoing treachery of so-called allies. This work is one of the first to discuss the international conspiracy against America involving Syria and Iran, and to discuss RussiaÂ's hidden hand in Iraq. Back-door deals, hidden alliances, betrayals and media ignorance are all part of the War on Terror. The secret agendas of Europe, Russia, and all the worldÂ's powers converge at the international chessboard known as Iraq.
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"Death To America" Should be Required Liberal Reading!.......2006-09-26
I am a liberal who detests George Bush and feel the whole "WMD's and terrorism" coming from Iraq was utter (oily) nonsense. But Ryan's book offered plenty of food for thought. The meticulously-researched work offers a compelling argument that Iraq did indeed pose a greater danger than we liberals care to accept.
Naturally, Ryan's book references countless other sources utilized to support his writings. If the findings of these "sources" are generally true then so is the book. If not, the book is of course flawed. I wish to point out that a "liberal" book claiming no WMD's and no terrorism linked can be equally compelling but "Death To America" should be required reading for all people interested in both possible sides of the story. Only by hearing many different views can we accomplish a reasonable conclusion for ourselves.
This work is an amazing achievement for anyone and especially impressive for a teenager!
-Paul Rosa
P.S. Impeach Bush!
Disturbing details.......2006-09-15
Two months from a critical mid-term election, even President George W. Bush is trying to separate himself (and incumbent Republicans) from a key incentive for invading Iraq. In 2002 and 2003, "we thought [Saddam Hussein] had weapons of mass destruction," the President stated in an August 21 White House press conference. "It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction." Asked what role Iraq played in the attack on America, the President said, "Nothing." But in October 2002, strong evidence suggested precisely such a link.
According to Ryan Mauro's fascinating book, documents, testimony and on-the-ground evidence since uncovered show extensive ties between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Iraq did indeed possess weapons of mass destruction--and their building blocks. Moreover, Mauro writes, Hussein may have even helped fund or plan the September 11 attacks after all, just as he certainly did previous attacks on America.
For on thing, in October 2002 Iraq agreed to provide al Qaeda with safe haven, funds, weaponry and 90 Iraqi and Syrian passports, for its promised participation in an anti-American insurgency were Iraq later invaded by U.S. and coalition forces, as subsequently occurred. Iraq in 2000 gave safe haven to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, (killed in June 2006 in a North Baghdad strike). Zarqawi returned there in Sept. 2002 from Syria, via Jordan, to lead the terrorist insurgency that today continues without him. An Iraqi Mukhabarat intelligence agency document, discovered by Britain's Telegraph in April 2003, proved that Baghdad hosted an al Qaeda collaborator planner in March 1998.
In Nov. 2002, according to Judge Gilbert S. Merrill, an unauthorized (and swiftly confiscated) Iraqi newspaper reported on an Iraqi officer "responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group." On its front page ran two photos--of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and his Revolutionary Council. All this evidence of bin Laden-Hussein links is recounted here.
Mauro, a remarkable 19-year-old autodidact, also reports Hussein-bin Laden cooperation in the 1993 attacks on U.S. peace keepers in Somalia and in a 1995 meeting of bin Laden special operations chief, Habib Ma'muri, and Iraqi Hussein's liaison, Farouq Hijazi, at Iraq's secret Salman Pak terror training facilities--as well as the connection of Republican Guardsman Hussein Hashem al-Hussaini and Iraqi agent Ramzi Yousef to the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Witnesses saw al-Hussaini there with Timothy McVeigh; Yousef taught bomb making to Terry Nichols during their simultaneous stay with the Philippines' Abu Sayyef terror group.
Mauro also provides bountiful evidence to prove Iraq's mass weapons possession. In 2000, he writes, the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission--working with Libya, Sudan and perhaps others--escalated several small nuclear technology research programs. Ex-U.N. atomic weapons chief inspector Richard Butler reported evidence that Hussein began reconstructing weapons programs in 1998.
Additionally, in May, 2003, the CIA reported that coalition forces had found "strong evidence...that Iraq was hiding a biological weapons program." Facilities discovered actually matched former Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 2003 description at the U.N.
In October 2003, David Kay's interim Iraq Survey Group report disclosed Iraq's prewar interest "in reconstituting a centrifuge enrichment program," commitment to "development of ballistic missiles with ranges of at least 400km and up to 1000km" (violating 1991 UN restrictions by wide margins), prototype production of a "clustered engine liquid propellant missile," efforts to acquire and produce "dual use chemicals" and clandestine chemical and biological weapons work.
Kay discovered a prison lab, ordered hidden from the U.N., where Iraq was suspected of testing biological weapons on prisoners. ISG also found many hidden Mukhabarat labs--and several germ strains, all potential biological weapons--in one scientist's home.
Cached at another residence was a botulism toxin vial. Proof also surfaced of continuing research on such biological agents as aflatoxin, ricin (pulmonary toxin), Brucella, Congo Crimean Hemorraghic Fever and anthrax. The ISG also found unmanned aerial vehicles, documents confirming work to produce long-range ballistic missiles to reach the entire Middle East--and negotiations with North Korea to buy 1,300 kilometer range ballistic missiles and 300 kilometer range anti-ship missiles. In 2002, Turkey reported Iraq "had produced at least one nuclear device, minus the fissile core," and also corroborated key Iraqi defectors' testimony of up to 400 Iraqi nuclear materiel sites.
In 2004 officials also revealed 1999 to 2001 electronic intelligence that had detected discussions of illegal uranium trading in Niger, with dealers (including Niger officials) implicating Iraq. Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to corroborate other such intelligence, later claimed he found nothing. Yet a Niger official had told him that former Iraqi minister Sayeed al-Sahaf had visited to discuss trade--in a small, land-locked desert country whose chief export, beside uranium, was goats.
According to Mauro, Iraq hid and transported these weapons based on a plan hatched much earlier with al Qaeda, Syrian, Sudanese, Libyan and even Russian collaborators. In Sept. 2002, Iraqi agents graduated from a Moscow surveillance curriculum and in early 2003, two former Soviet air defense and rapid-reaction generals admitted having visited Iraq with former Soviet prime minister Yevgeny Primakov months before the war. Former Romanian spy chief Ion Mihai Pacepa attributes their involvement to Iraq's duplication of Soviet-designed "emergency exit" (Sarindar) plans for Western invasions.
Not only had Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceausescu specifically informed Pacepa of Iraq's Soviet-backed "Sarindar" program, so had then-KGB chief Yury Andropov and Hussein-buddy Primakov, who had "repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991" to help hide Iraq's weapons.
Mauro also reports documents substantial evidence, seriously under reported and misrepresented in the mainstream media, of huge convoys from Iraq to Syria before the war. Readers should consult Mauro's book to learn the fine, and very disturbing, details.
--Alyssa A. Lappen
A poorly written but very interesting mishmash..........2006-04-01
This is a book written by a young man who is only 19. It is full of fascinating, open-source stuff. But it is badly written and terribly organized. You can get the idea when the author refers to someone within Saddam's government as "Mr. Al-Tikriti." Come now! This is hardly a unique identifier. Anyone who has seen the playing cards distributed to coalition forces can tell you that almost everyone in Saddam's inner circle had the tribal surname of "Al-Tikriti."
So: the first thing needed to improve this book is a list (at the front of the book) of the characters who play an important role. If possible, with pictures.
The second thing needed to improve this book is a timeline (at the front of the book), putting all the important events on a chronological straight line to avoid reader confusion.
The third major thing needed is for the author himself to follow some sort of timeline. He apparently does, but jumps around pretty much at will, so that a paragraph beginning "In 1987..." is immediately followed by a paragraph beginning "In 1994..."
On the upside, there is just so much dirt in here! There is so much that really needs to be investigated in detail! I know a little bit about the career of Ramzi Youcef -- happily a prisoner of the US as I write these words. To what extent was he an Iraqi agent? And the Oklahoma terrorist bombing! I'll just mention one thing that really raises my eyebrows, in retrospect: the M.O. (modus operandi). It was another huge TRUCK BOMB. Go through the history of these "cunning, intelligent" international terrorists and TIME AFTER TIME their M.O. is to put a big bomb in a truck and drive it to the scene of the crime. Certainly they did that in the first attack on the World Trade Center. And what did we see in Oklahoma? They put a big bomb in a truck and drove it to the scene of the crime.
This book is well worth looking into, but it really needs a complete rewrite. It appears the author rushed it into print himself because he felt the information was time-critical. I won't argue with him on that. I'm not sure exactly how much stuff he has gotten right. But I do have a strong suspicion that the two million documents being released by the U.S. government even now are going to bring a lot of support to this 19yo young man.
That is to say, the "democratic wing of the Democratic party" has fallen so hard for the "NO WMD" and "NO CONNECTION" non-facts that there is going to be egg all over their faces by the end of the day. To think -- that such people were celebrating the likes of Michael Moore when people like Saddam and Osama were plotting the next terror strikes against America.
It is really nice to notice that the "Saddam" half of that partnership is in jail, while the "Osama" half sneaks from cave to cave in Waziristan.
Death to America:The Unreported Battle of Iraq.......2006-03-23
A must read for those wishing to have the real story about the Middle East conflict. Cuts through all the political mumbo jumbo and tells it like it is. Very refreshing! Simply amazing that this was written by a high school student. This young man is brillant! This book should be a must read for all college students, political science majors, polliticians and anyone wanting an understanding of present world affairs. Ryan Muro will challenge you to think beyond the sound byte and will give you some real meat to chew on!
Stunning Debut.......2006-03-01
Ryan Mauro is not only a gifted gatherer of intelligence data but also a talented writer. His book is informative, important, up-to-the-minute, and, above all, readable.
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Spectacular color photographs capture the majesty, grace, and power of bald eagles in this inspiring story of how the United States saved its living symbol of freedom and independence. Declared our national bird in 1782, bald eagles were on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. But to citizens everywhere, such a loss was unthinkable. From government agencies to conservation groups and grassroots heroes, Americans banded together for a common cause, and this beautiful, wild spirit once again flies freely across our skies. Return of the Eagle chronicles this American success story with words and photos, including some of the most incredible photographs ever taken of eagles in flight. Return of the Eagle also features a unique directory to more than 150 acres throughout the nation where bald eagles may be viewed in the wild.
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The inspiring story of the bald eagle's resurgence is the good news in this follow-up to WHERE THE BALD EAGLES GATHER, published by Clarion in 1984. Full-color photographs and an updated text describe, in a handsome, newly designed format, the significant changes in the habitat and status of our national emblem. Young naturalists are sure to be encouraged by this account of a remarkably successful conservation effort, expertly documented by the same team that first helped to introduce young readers to the eagle's plight. Index.
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The Return of the Bald Eagle
Priscilla Tucker
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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