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Roland Jacquard In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood
Duke University Press 2002 0822329913 / 9780822329916 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
New. Near fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.From Publishers Weekly. This latest entry into the Osama bin Laden publishing sweepstakes stands out for its exhaustive research and prescience it was published in France the week of September 11 and catapulted onto the bestseller lists there. Jacquard, a French terrorism expert, details Osama bin Laden's rise from his childhood in Saudi Arabia to turning into the world's largest terrorist menace. While the story has been told elsewhere (most popularly in Peter Bergen's Holy War Inc.), Jacquard brings new details. He's particularly provocative on bin Laden's travels during the early 1990s, arguing that he returned to Afghanistan only after quarreling with the Sudanese government. He also effectively details the tentacles of al-Qaeda throughout the world, putting together the most comprehensive description of a broad network in Europe and throughout Asia. Documents translated from Arabic and French give additional evidence and background. Now, despite several post-September 11 updates, some of the information published here is no longer novel, but this still stands as a balanced, sweeping description of the bin Laden threat. As the author adds in a new, ominous epilogue, the threat remains: al-Qaeda, he writes, wants "to lead the world into the apocalypse." . Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. . . From Library Journal. As one of several recent works on Osama bin Laden, Jacquard's provides the deeper examination of the worldwide structure of Islamic fundamentalism and its associated terrorism. Tracing the roots of the Islamic Jihad to Egypt and the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Jacquard subsequently brings bin Laden into the narrative as a mujahedeen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union, as a refugee in the Sudan, and as a radical leader with associations with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Jacquard's themes, however, embrace much more than the life of bin Laden. They address America's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, American military presence in Saudi Arabia, Islamic terrorist financing, and the growing threat of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. With deep irony he points to the Western drug culture, well supplied from Afghan poppy fields, as a major financial resource for terrorists' operations. Jacquard, president of the International Observatory on Terrorism in Paris, asserts that hope may reside in popular debate and discourse regarding the future development of Islam and the unlikelihood of its holding an eternal monolithic hostile view of the West. An appendix consisting of 40 documents brings a chilling reality to the narrative. For all libraries. John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mount Pleasant . Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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