This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses. Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, Dilip Hiro goes on to outline the Islamist movements that have thrived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and their changing relationship with America. It is within this framework that the rising menace of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida network is discussed. The Pentagon's amazingly swift victory...
This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embass...
The first war of the 21st century. That is how President George W. Bush described the start of the war against terror signalled by the catastrophic terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, of 11 September 2001. In reality, though, that war was started by President Bill Clinton in August 1998 following the Islamist terrorists' bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which killed 224 people and injured over 5000.
The first war of the 21st century. That is how President George W. Bush described the start of the war against terror signalled by the catastrophic te...
