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Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 949.703
EAN: 9780760330036
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0760330034
Label: Zenith Press
Manufacturer: Zenith Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 15, 2007
Publisher: Zenith Press
Studio: Zenith Press
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Editorial Review:
Al-Qa’ida: in the 80s they were in Afghanistan, supported by America and fighting the Russians. In the new century they have metastasized throughout the world’s geopolitical body. Where were they in the 90s? Unholy Terror provides the answer, with all its terrifying implications for our world today. This book provides the missing piece in the puzzle of al-Qa’ida’s transformation from an isolated fighting force into a lethal global threat: the Bosnian war of 1992 to 1995. John R. Schindler reveals the unexamined role that radical Islam played in that terrible conflict--and the ill-considered contributions of American policy to al-Qa’ida’s growth. His book explores a truth long hidden from view: that, like Afghanistan in the 1980s, Bosnia in the 1990s became a training ground for the mujahidin. Unholy Terror at last exposes the shocking story of how bin Laden successfully exploited the Bosnian conflict for his own ends--and of how the U. S. Government gave substantial support to his unholy warriors, leading to blowback of epic proportions.
This book reveals the role that radical Islam played in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s--and the ill-considered part that American policy in that war played in al-Qa’ida’s growth. Schindler explores a truth long hidden from view: that, like Afghanistan in the 1980s, Bosnia in the 1990s became a training ground for the mujahidin. Unholy Terror at last exposes the shocking story of how bin Laden successfully exploited the Bosnian conflict for his own ends--and of how the U. S. Government gave substantial support to his unholy warriors, leading to blowback of epic proportions.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Untruthful and propaganda-ridden
This book is an attempt to exploit the current terrorist Al-Qaida threat in the U.S. in order to gain some recognition and possbily sell a few copies. An inaccurate attempt to create a connection between the Bosniaks and Al-Qaida, where one was nonexistent. Being of the Muslim faith, particularly a devoted and religious individual, does not correlate directly to Al-Qaida or such extreme groups. Schindler has very limited understanding of the real political standings in the Balkans and the books ... Read More
Rating: - A very important book to understand the disintegration of Yugoslavia
Unholy Terror, Review by Peter Staric, PhD, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Important Advice! In Order to avoid any confusion in quotation of names with specific diacritical fonts, this review should be open with Times New Roman CE Fonts, where æ (e.g. Izetbegoviæ) is pronounced in English as tj;, è (e.g. Èengiæ) as ch; dj or ð (e.g. Karadjiæ or Karaðiæ) as j, and z (e.g. zivalj) as zh. For doing otherwise, let me quote only a single very confusing example: Gojko usak was the former Croatian ... Read More
Rating: - Unholy Terror
It is an extraordinary book that honestly presents preceding events, without the usual propaganda and lies.
Dr. Eng. Sc. Michael Savic
Rating: - A critical and reasoned perspective supported by research
John R. Schindler has a background in scholarship and has the analytical background to weigh the credibility of various sources. This is exceedingly valuable in a conflict where the sides depend on the outside intervention based on those claims. The initial Western media arrived in the conflicting polities without a historical or anthropological understanding of the situation and did not have the capacity (much less the inclination) to weigh the claims of the Croatian CIC or the Bosnian Ministry of Information. ... Read More
Rating: - First Time Observation Turned Into an Expert Opinion
I really love Amazon but one of its downfalls is the customer reviews of politically-based books. It's clear to me that a reader will give a thumbs up or down based as to whether or not they agreed with the author's partisan views. But this book is not that. In fact, I doubt if the author is even a hardline conservative or liberal himself, an irrelevant matter nevertheless.
When wanting to take a jab at understanding the former Yugoslavia, I went into it without knowing as much as the country's' names, ... Read More
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