In November 2006, a Moroccan using the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, having infiltrated al-Qaeda in the 1990s, authored the book, Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story.

In the book, Nasiri describes al-Libi as one of the leaders at the Afghan camp, and characterizes him as " brilliant in every way.

Georges Charpak and Henri Broch dealt with claims from astrology in the book Debunked!

The book claims that it was submerged in 2193 BC, the same year that 19th century almanacs, following traditional Biblical chronology, gave for Noah's flood.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

Olson later helped edit The Real Anita Hill, a book by David Brock that savaged Hill and portrayed the harassment claim as a political dirty trick ( Brock later recanted his claims and apologized to Hill ).

* Grist magazine article Rebuttals from scientists working in the various fields his book makes claims about.

In 1980, the book, The Golden Turkey Awards, claims that Lugosi's character declares his manservant Lobo ( Tor Johnson ) " as harmless as kitchen ".

" In his book, Sins of the Scripture, Spong claims that " Jesus seemed to understand that no one can finally fit the holy God into his or her creeds or doctrines.

Many practitioners take Edward Saïd's book Orientalism ( 1978 ) as the theory's founding work ( although French theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon made similar claims decades before Said ).

Hubbard claimed, in an interview with the New York Times in November 1950, that " he had already submitted proof of claims made in the book to a number of scientists and associations.

The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.

The Babylonian Talmud claims that Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah, composed the book.

Nancy Friday's book, Men in Love-Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love over Rage claims that swallowing ejaculate is high on the intimacy scale.

* Author William Goldman claims in his book The Princess Bride that the story he tells is an abridged version of the Florinese literary masterpiece by the great ( and fictional ) S. Morgenstern.

Higgins writes in the first person of finding the graves of 13 German paratroopers in an English churchyard, an event known not to have actually occurred, and claims that the book stems from his research into actual events.

Fra Marino also claims to have been alerted to the existence of the Gospel of Barnabas, from an allusion in a work by Irenaeus against Paul ; in a book which had been presented to him by a lady of the Colonna family ( Marino, outside Rome, is the location of the Palazzo Colonna ).

I refer now to the part of the book that deals with the claims against the Swiss banks, and the other claims pertaining to forced labor.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").

The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte du Graal ( The Story of the Grail ) by Chrétien de Troyes, who claims he was working from a source book given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders.

Quayle criticized Gore's book Earth in the Balance with specific page references, though his claims were subsequently criticized by the liberal group FAIR for inaccuracy.

One exception to this modern trend is Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With a Thousand Faces ( 1949 ), which claims that all hero myths follow the same underlying pattern.

In this book Polanyi claims that absolute objectivity ( objectivism ) is a false ideal, because all knowledge claims ( including those which are derived from rules ) rely on personal judgements.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Under his editorship, the committee produced a book called Language and Public Policy ( 1974 ), with the aim of informing readers of the extensive scope of doublespeak being used to deliberately mislead and deceive the audience.

The trial is recounted in chapter 21, the longest chapter in the book, and that trial has become the focus of scholarly controversy: was Captain Vere a good man trapped by bad law, or did he deliberately distort and misrepresent the applicable law to condemn Billy to death?

Norman Cohn, in his book Europe's Inner Demons, also accused Murray of falsifying her evidence by selectively quoting from the testimony of accused witches, deliberately leaving out fantastical elements to support her claim that real events were being described rather than fantasies ; such elements include testimonies of flying to meetings, transforming into animals, or seeing the devil disappear and reappear suddenly.

Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector — a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.

The writers of Atlanta Nights, a deliberately bad book intended to embarrass the publishing firm PublishAmerica, used the pen name Travis Tea.

Written in an academic style, its introduction noted that, to discourage lay readers, the author had deliberately chosen a scientific term for the title of the book and that he had written parts of it in Latin for the same purpose.

As discussed by many authors have historically argued that " the book is, first and foremost, a satire, so that many of the things we find in it which are morally absurd, specious, and contradictory, are there quite deliberately in order to ridicule ... the very notion of tyrannical rule ".

Heine was deliberately attacking Madame de Staël's book De l ' Allemagne ( 1813 ) which he viewed as reactionary, Romantic and obscurantist.

However, Murray's work, on which Stone based her own book, has been roundly criticized by many historians who argue that Murray selectively cited data and deliberately distorted evidence.

In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.

In his book on the insurrection, Findley — a bitter political foe of Hamilton — maintained that the treasury secretary had deliberately provoked the uprising by issuing the subpoenas just before the law was made less onerous.

Gurdjieff deliberately tried to increase the effort needed to read and understand the book.

Modern historians view her book as an important primary source, but one that is deliberately misleading in many instances.

The book also employed a deliberately " scattered " style ; Shah wrote to Graves that its aim was to " decondition people, and prevent their reconditioning "; had it been otherwise, he might have used a more conventional form of exposition.

Despite HarperCollins ' predictions-and, according to Moore, their deliberately limited promotion of the book-the book became enormously popular, becoming the largest-selling nonfiction book for 2002 at such major outlets as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com, and occupying the # 1 spot in the U. S., the UK ( including being the number one seller on Amazon. co. uk before a British printing was even proposed ), Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere.

The book, which became a worldwide best-seller, claims that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not caused by terrorists, but rather by the U. S. military deliberately attacking the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

A good portion of this part of the novel closely resembles the experiences chronicled by Mary Jane Ward in her autobiographical novel The Snake Pit ; Plath later stated that she'd seen reviews of The Snake Pit and believed the public wanted to see " mental health stuff ," so she deliberately based details of Esther's hospitalization on the procedures and methods outlined in Ward's book.

Peter van Walsum, the now-retired Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United Nations and chairman of the Iraq Sanctions Committee from 1999 to 2000, speculated in a recent book that Iraq deliberately divided the Security Council by awarding contracts to France, Russia, and China but not to the United Kingdom and the United States.

It is understandable that a writer whose main source was Peter would not mention Jesus ' birth or other events about which Peter was not likely to have known, but that does not explain why Mark would deliberately decline to describe Jesus ' post-resurrection appearances and ascension, which are mentioned by Peter as described in the book of Acts.

In his book, the journalist-turned-novelist describes that Yi deliberately stood at the front of his ship in his final battle making himself a target for Japanese gunmen, thinking that ending his life in this honorable fashion could be better than facing another political ploys which was likely to wait him in the Joseon royal court after the war.

In some researches to the book, it is said that Zhu Bajie deliberately does not use his real power on the journey as he knows every time Monkey King would come and save them all.

In Worth's book, The Trivia Encyclopedia, the fictitious entry about Columbo's first name was actually a " copyright trap " – a deliberately false statement intended to reveal subsequent copyright infringement.