Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

by Loretta Napoleoni

Book Overview

A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609807081
• ISBN13: 9781609807085
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"