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Title: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us by Steven Emerson ISBN: 0743233247 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53
Rating: 5
Summary: FEARLESS AND FRIGHTENING... NOT FOR OSTRICHES!
Comment: Steven Emerson is fearless as a reporter. He is a self-made expert on Islamic terrorism, and as such he has invited the hatred of violent murderers. (At least one group has marked him for assassination; he was offered enrollment in the federal witness protection program, but refused). For more than 10 years, Emerson has studied groups operating in the United States, whose express purpose is the funding and managing of deadly organizations.
AMERICAN JIHAD summarizes what he has learned, and it isn't comforting. Emerson shows how the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has grown an extensive network in the United States, how the group Islamic Jihad set up shop at the University of South Florida, and how an Islamic center in Tucson helped recruit two of Osama bin Laden's top deputies. A must read.
On the lighter side, I recommend COCKPIT CONFESSIONS OF AN AIRLINE PILOT, by a whacko named Keshner, who I would love to know in person. Not content to be politically incorrect across the full spectrum, Keshner puts the deft knee in the crotch of the Arabs, and adds the thumb to the eye of the Saudis... all with wit, humor, and great flying stories.
Rating: 4
Summary: Roots of Jihad tracked
Comment: Book exposes the activities of Jihadis in the US, exploiting the freedom of speech enshrined in the US constitution.
It is surprising to learn that the national security establishment was completely unaware of things to come. Call for Jihad against Israel and the West, from within the US soil, in the 1980's went unnoticed, given the state department's focus on Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. It is equally surprising to note that similar calls in the 1990's (until 1993 WTC bombing) went unnoticed as well.
Oil power is the key to strategic policies in the Gulf. US was a blind spectator to Saudi's role in the propogation of militant Islam (Wahhabism) throughout the world.
Even if this book had been written 15 years back, WTC bombing in 1993 could not have been prevented. The US intelligentia, under the hang-over of cold-war and oil diplomacy, simply did not see these coming. Instead it relied on false optimism to carry forward their relationship with the muslim world.
This explains stringent opposition to the author's documentary in Nov 1994 (Jihad in America).
Al-Qaeda's roots lay in Pakistan. Even today, US considers Pakistan as its ally in the war against terrorism. US is a blind spectator to what is going on in Pakistan today. Unless it realizes its mistakes, threat of terrorism will not wane away.
Stephen Emerson's book is a pointer in this regard.
Rating: 4
Summary: Every American should read this!
Comment: I'd like to think that a book like this would help Americans wake up, but I'm not that naive.
Emerson seems to have spent much time investigating the radical Islamic movement in America, and their links to terrorism. I applaud his research. Facts like these need to get out.
One comment he made troubled me, however: he stated that he was wrong when he initially connected the Oklahoma City bombing with Middle-Eastern terrorists. Maybe he was unaware of the Iraqi connections at the time of publication--I hope he has learned of this since. (It's clear now how the OKC bombing fit exactly into the scheme that he himself has unraveled, and included several of the same players involved in other terrorist plots.)
Most of Emerson's book tracks the flow of money and associations of the terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. He doesn't discuss a lot of the philosophical issues--I guess that could be another book in itself.
Emerson reveals how the international terrorist organizations have used America and her freedoms to fuel their hate crimes against America herself, and many others overseas. He shows how the radical Islamic movement has hijacked the more moderate, peaceful Muslim groups, and has almost completely drowned out their voices.
Unfortunately, this book doesn't have a happy ending. I hope real life turns out differently. But given the pluralistic, politically-correct quagmire our society has become encumbered in, I'm afraid that may not be the case.
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Title: Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0393052044 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer, Seymour M. Hersh ISBN: 140004684X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, And Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It by John Miller, Michael Stone ISBN: 0786869003 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 by Bill Gertz ISBN: 0895261480 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 25 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title:Terrorist Among Us - The Jihad in America ASIN: B00005TPOO Publisher: Ventura Distribution Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.98 |
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