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A Guide to Militant Islam in the US
Prometheus Books
October 2006
On Sale: October 2, 2006
535 pages
ISBN: 1591024536
EAN: 9781591024538
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The Investigative Project on Terrorism, founded in 1995 by
Steven Emerson, maintains the largest nongovernmental data
and intelligence library in the world on militant Islam. The
Project assists the White House, the FBI, the Justice
Department, Department of Homeland Security, and other
government departments with counterterrorism activities. Together with a staff of experts, Executive Director Steven
Emerson has compiled this thorough factual overview of the
Islamist terrorist threat to the United States. Unlike the
Final Report of the 9/11 Commission, which was focused
mainly on the retrospective analysis of al Qaeda activities
leading up to the attack of September 11, 2001, this work
emphasizes current radical activities in the United States
and the threat they might pose to national security. Divided
into three sections, the work first sets the stage for the
current situation by reviewing the lessons learned from
previous terrorist plots and attacks both within our borders
and against American interests abroad. Emerson and
colleagues profile key players in the terrorist network and
describe their various criminal activities before and since
9/11. The second section analyzes organizations in the
Middle East besides al Qaeda that are hostile to the United
States: Hamas, Hizballah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and
radical groups in Pakistan. The third section analyzes the
subtle, wide-ranging support system for terrorist activities
that exists within our own borders: charities and
foundations that secretly solicit for terror; the complex
corporate web of companies, charities, and nonprofit
corporations known as the SAAR network; mosques that provide
cover for terrorists; the use of the Internet for terrorist
communication; and lobbying efforts by Muslim American
organizations to influence the top echelons of the federal
government. In a dangerous age, this is an important book
for all Americans to read.
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