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Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror

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This book on Al Qaeda has a useable index and references to additional research sources that you can look up on your own (including Internet websites). This gives the book an extra dimension to just being something you read and put away.

Williams manages to cram quite a bit into a compact soft-cover and does a good job of giving the reader a scare. He also tries to describe the structure of Al Qaeda and how it raises money for its activities. He could be more thorough describing the background on bin Laden and Islamic unrest but perhaps that would at least double the size of his book. His references are also a bit loose and there was at least one instance where I could not corroborate his information.

A truly poor book that literally is cut and pasted from either on-line sources or other texts. Many factual errors, and unfortunately, not a single footnote in the entire book. Anyone who has more than a passing interest about Al Qaeda should go on to far better works on the subject.

This is an excellent book about Bin Ladins organization. The author gives a history of Islam and relates it to Bin Ladins organization. He talks about things Bin Ladin did in Sudan that have never been talked about as in depth before. His information is probably one of the most accurate because he worked for the F.B.I.

I want my money back. There was nothing new in this book that CNN has not already reported. The dates for some of the attacks are also wrong. The USS COLE was bombed on OCT 12, not the 5th as written by the author. The author must have spent little time on research, it's all cut and paste text.

The most informative book to appear on the subject of Islamic terrorism.