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Genre/Form: | History Sources |
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Named Person: | Usāma Ibn-Lādin |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barry M Rubin; Judith Colp Rubin |
ISBN: | 019515715X 9780195157154 9780195176599 0195176596 |
OCLC Number: | 49285372 |
Description: | xv, 392 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The radical critique of Islam -- The revolutionaries -- American policy and anti-Americanism -- Usama bin Ladin and his movement -- Al-Qaʹida's war on America -- September 11, Al-Qaʹida, and the Taliban -- Middle East reaction to September 11 -- September 11 and the war against terrorism. |
Responsibility: | edited by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin. |
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For readers who want to go back to the sources. * Publishers Weekly * The book contains copies of nearly 100 important documents related to the Middle East conflict, including the charters of such organizations as Hezbollah and Hamas, as well al al Qaeda recruitment and training materials. * The Washington Post Book World * The fine documentary reader. It also offers a sampling of American, Middle Eastern, and world reactions to the event. With a detailed chronology of Middle East-connected terrorism against Americans and helpful glossaries, this book is a useful reference book. * Foreign Affairs * Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin's Anti-American Terrorism in the Middle-East in a valuable reader with selections from and introductions to the major theorists of Islamist terrorism, including Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Khomeini, bin Laden and sundry Hamas and Hezbollah spokesmen. It shows that their deep-rooted ideology is not grounded in simple objections to recent American foreign policy in the Middle East but is a historically rooted view of the nature ofIslam and its fundamental and necessary opposition to the Western world's commitment to individual freedom and constitutional democracy. * Claremont Review of Books * Many of the materials here are useful and intriguing, from George Bush's statement on September 11 to Saddam Hussein's broadcast on September 12 to Osama bin Laden's own broadcast the month after. * World Politics * Read more...


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