Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East: A Documentary Reader

by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin

Book Overview

After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a stunned public asked: How could this happen? Why did the attackers do what they did? What did they hope to accomplish? This wasn't the first battle in a conflict that has included bombings of U.S. embassies and planes, the Iran hostage crisis, and kidnappings or shootings of American citizens. This unique volume sets out to answer these questions using the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515715X
• ISBN13: 9780195157154
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.5" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

The ideological basis for anti- American in the Middle East

This book was initially published in hardback in 2002. It very much has 9/11 in the background. It provides a great deal of documentation on the terror - programs and plans of various Middle East originated players, most notably Al- Quaeda. But it also provides a solid understanding of the ideological foundations of anti- American Terror. It has a number of selections from the thought of radical Shiite and Sunnite thinkers. Though the book does not include developments up to and through 2009, which would include analysis of what is happening in Afghanistan- Pakistan, Iraq it does provide a real understanding of the foundational- views of the anti- American middle eastern world. Given the rapid changes in the world, including the Obama effort to move the Islamic world away from hostility to the United States the book could certainly gain from an update. And this however when it provides a real basis for understanding Middle-Eastern anti- Americanism.