Islamic Terror Abductions in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781845197360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 197 str.

Shaul Shay

Opis

This book investigates abductions, hostage taking, beheadings, and global jihad influences in four theaters in the Middle East in the past 25 years: Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq. Noting that terrorist organizations use abduction as a tool for promotion of their and their patrons' interests, the book examines Middle East abductions and the relations/correlations between Islamic terrorist organizations and Iran, before demonstrating Iran's role as a terror supporting state, and the promotion of Iranian interests by its terrorist surrogates. The research then examines the challenge posed by terrorist organizations for countries whose citizens have been abducted and the answers to that challenge, and provides theoretical classifications of the terror phenomenon in general and abductions/ beheadings in particular.