Summer Reading Requests from the FBI

According to Solicitation Number 0249804, the FBI must want its agents to catch up on their reading this summer. The Agency wants to acquire multiple copies of some 26 titles, including:

• 180 copies of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (published in 2003)
• 150 copies of Understanding Terror Networks (2004)
• 30 copies of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (2002)

Plus two titles one would think the FBI already owned plenty of copies:

• 130 copies of The Koran (The FBI wants the Penguin Classics version, perhaps not the best English translation)
• 150 copies of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2005)

Hat tip to the recently relaunched The Memory Hole. More about the relaunch here. Welcome back! [JH]