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Published 1998 by Andre Deutsch (later Carlton) in the United Kingdom and NUP in the U.S., {{ISBN|1-55553-509-7}}. |
Published 1998 by Andre Deutsch (later Carlton) in the United Kingdom and NUP in the U.S., {{ISBN|1-55553-509-7}}. |
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In a footnote to <u>Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America</u> (2000), Laurie Mylroie writes: <blockquote><em>The New Jackals</em> was written with startling speed. In November 1998, Reeve posted this message on the Internet: "I'm just starting a research project on Ramzi Yousef-can anyone suggest the best source for information for him? Does anyone know is [sic] the leading expert on Yousef?? Your help would be much appreciated " (http://www.nonviolence.org/board/messages/5040.htm). Although Reeve had not worked previously on the Middle East, the book was in print a year later and included bin Ladin's terrorism as well. Why would a foreign journalist, virtually unknown in the United States, be given the level of special access to U.S. official sources that is evident throughout Reeve's book? That sort of access is often associated with a particular interpretation, or spin, that is being promoted by certain government agencies. Possibly, the administration wanted to put out its own spin on the terrorist threat, which loomed as a particularly acute problem in the wake of the embassy bombings.</blockquote><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mylroie |first1=Laurie |title=Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War against America |date=2000 |publisher=AEI Press |location=Washington DC |pages=305}}</ref> |
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| Author | Simon Reeve |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Islamic terrorism |
| Publisher | Andre Deutsch |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 1-55553-509-7 |
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a 1998 book by Simon Reeve.
Background
Published in 1998, this New York Times bestseller was the first book on Osama bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Al-Qaeda[citation needed]. Classified documents obtained by the author detailed the existence, development, and aims of al Qaeda.[1]
Summary
According to Reeve, a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the Afghan War of the 1980s, later dominated international terrorism. He warned that many of these men, known as the ‘Afghan Arabs’, became the core of al Qaeda. Reeve states that they were a new breed of terrorist, militants with no restrictions on mass killing. Reeve concluded that by 1988, the world was entering a new age of apocalyptic terrorism; Reeve predicted al Qaeda would launch massive attacks on Western targets.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the book was republished with a new epilogue, which warns the West remains vulnerable to further attacks, possibly from biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
Publication
Published 1998 by Andre Deutsch (later Carlton) in the United Kingdom and NUP in the U.S., ISBN 1-55553-509-7.
Criticism
In a footnote to Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America (2000), Laurie Mylroie writes:
The New Jackals was written with startling speed. In November 1998, Reeve posted this message on the Internet: "I'm just starting a research project on Ramzi Yousef-can anyone suggest the best source for information for him? Does anyone know is [sic] the leading expert on Yousef?? Your help would be much appreciated " (http://www.nonviolence.org/board/messages/5040.htm). Although Reeve had not worked previously on the Middle East, the book was in print a year later and included bin Ladin's terrorism as well. Why would a foreign journalist, virtually unknown in the United States, be given the level of special access to U.S. official sources that is evident throughout Reeve's book? That sort of access is often associated with a particular interpretation, or spin, that is being promoted by certain government agencies. Possibly, the administration wanted to put out its own spin on the terrorist threat, which loomed as a particularly acute problem in the wake of the embassy bombings.
References
- ^ Powers, Thomas. "The Trouble with the CIA - The New York Review of Books". nybooks.com. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ Mylroie, Laurie (2000). Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War against America. Washington DC: AEI Press. p. 305.
See also
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