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Title: My Jihad: One American's Journey Through the World of Usama Bin Laden--as a Covert Operative for the American Government by Aukai Collins ISBN: 0-7434-7059-1 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My Jihad Offers Valuable Insights
Comment: In this amazing true story, Aukai Collins documents his journeys to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Azerbijain and elsewhere as he tries to find himself through jihad. This book is for ANYONE who wants to find a better understanding of Muslim values and beleifs. Through it all, Aukai tells the story of his troubled childhood, his conversion to Islam, his travels to training camps in Afghanistan, his battles against the Russians in Chechnya where he loses his leg to a mine, as an operative for the FBI and CIA where they eventually betray him to government agents in Albania, his journey to Kosova to fight the Serbs, and his return to Chechnya. Aukai narrates with amazing clarity and conviction that only someone who lived through it all could. His amazing story will fascinate anyone and I couldn't put the book down, finishing it in a matter of days. He reveals things about how mujadeen operate and how the underground Islamic world work as only an insider could. The most amazing part of it all is that he's not even 30! Read this book - you won't regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: SORPRENDENTE
Comment: Es muy interesante la manera en que Aukai a sido capaz de recrear en nuestra mente el mundo del terrorismo mundial y la actuacion de las agencias gubernamentales de las principales potencias.
Rating: 1
Summary: Interesting but of dubious integrity
Comment: Aukai Collins has certainly traveled to some exotic places and participated in some singular experiences, but many of the details (especially regarding his role) ring false. At a tender age he went to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Kosovo to pursue jihad. While his descriptions of attending training camp in Afghanistan jive with other works on the subject, much of the tale is marred by Collins' insistence that he's smarter, quicker, and more talented than nearly everyone else around him. Time and time again he describes striking out on his own because "he was the only one who could see the right way to do it." Probably because of his impetuousness, the training camp coordinators sent him to be cannon fodder in Bosnia and Chechnya.
In the late 90's Collins returned to the U.S. and began working as a source for an FBI agent, who like all the others wasn't bright or insightful enough to earn Collins' respect (do you see a pattern here?). He claims to have met Hani Hanjour, one of the 9/11 hijackers, and deemed him no threat to anyone (Last I saw, the FBI denied that Collins ever mentioned Hanjour). Ultimately he goes back to fight yet another jihad, this time in Kosovo, and ends up a bounty hunter back in the U.S.
I don't doubt that Collins did a lot of the things he writes about. The cheap adventure-tourist tone of his book, as well as his continued inability to break out of his extremely narrow understanding of events and people around him, made the book a tedious and ultimately unworthwhile read.
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Title: Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places : 5th Edition (Robert Young Pelton the World's Most Dangerous Places, 5th Ed) by Robert Young Pelton ISBN: 0060011602 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Hunter, The Hammer, and Heaven: Journeys to Three Worlds Gone Mad by Robert Young Pelton ISBN: 1585744166 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us by Steven Emerson ISBN: 0743234359 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Adventurist : My Life in Dangerous Places by ROBERT YOUNG PELTON ISBN: 0767905768 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 19 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific by Robert Young Pelton ISBN: 1592281001 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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