Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World [Hardcover]

Stewart Bell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0470834633 | ISBN-13: 978-0470834633 | Edition: 1st

HOW CANADA NURTURES AND EXPORTS TERRORISM AROUND THE WORLD

This critically acclaimed book exposes how Canada became home to many of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations. Canada's lax laws and lack of vigilance have put its neighbors and the world community at risk. Award-winning journalist Stewart Bell draws on classified intelligence documents, front-line accounts, exclusive interviews with senior counterterrorism officials and the victims of terrorist attacks, and terrorists themselves, to provide incontestable evidence that Canada is an important base activity for terrorist groups.

Acclaim for Cold Terror:

"Canadians will be madder than hell after they read Stewart Bell's shocking account of how the Canadian government has allowed Sikh, Tamil and Islamic terrorists to come into our home and turn it into a safe house for international terror... Stewart Bell's clarion call for action needs to be heeded before the ticking Canadian terrorist time bomb blows up closer to home."
— The Globe and Mail

"Stewart Bell makes clear... that Canada's political leadership has a history of ineptitude, naivete, and outright irresponsibility with regard to international terrorism that stretches back to the 1980's. [He] has done an enormous service."
— Christian Science Monitor

"A devastating indictment of Canada's failure to deal seriously with terrorists on our soil."
— Martin Collacott, Canada's former ambassador to Syria and Lebanon, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

"Cold Terror will shock the conscience of a nation...This book is not just an exposé it is and urgent call to action."
— David Frum, author of The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush

Editorial Reviews

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“Every responsible citizen of Canada, the US, the UK and other Western countries should read this book” (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 27 August 2004)

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"Cold Terror will shock the conscience of the nation. In terrifying detail, it shows how the world's terrorists have made themselves at home in Canada-and how they have been made welcome by cowardly politicians. This book is not an exposé; it is an urgent call to action."
—David Frum, former White House speechwriter and author of The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush

"The book may cause the earth to shake in certain political circles—justifiably. An important contribution towards alerting Canadians to the threats and dangers in our very midst."
—Dr. Martin Rudner, Director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and

Security Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs "A devastating indictment of Canada's failure to deal seriously with terrorists on our soil."
—Martin Collacott, Canada's former ambassador to Syria and Lebanon, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

"This is a terrific an d timely book.... The blend of the descriptive past tense and the present tense reportage, not always easy to pull off in a narrative, is seamless."
—George Jonas, author of 13 books, including Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team

"This is THE book for anyone who wants to know why terrorists love Canada. Stewart Bell's carefully researched book takes readers inside the world of international terrorism. With a skillful blend of strong research edgy and on-the-scene reportage, Bell doesn't only tell you why Canada has become the Club Med of terrorism, he shows you how. Cold Terror is an indictment of Canadian government policies and should bring a chill to any Canadian."
—Lee Lamothe, author of The Last Thief and Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia’s Royal Family

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (March 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470834633
• ISBN-13: 978-0470834633
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,355,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wakeup Call for Canada, April 23, 2004

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D. Gordon Longmuir "DGL" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)

Stewart Bell, a seasoned journalist who has written on terrorism for a dozen years, has been criticized for allegedly targeting minority ethnic groups. But this is no hysterical racist on a crusade; the author is a calm, dispassionate observer who has done his research and analysis in a painstaking and objective manner. His targets are the tiny but terrifying minorities within minorities, and the politicians who tolerate and thus encourage them.

Even if one believes, as so many Canadians seem to, that Canada is an unlikely target for terrorism, it is certainly not in our interests to continue harbouring terrorism aimed not only at faraway "enemies", but at our nearest neighbour and chief trading partner. Cold Terror is a serious treatment of a vital problem for which Canadians should demand swift and decisive action.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bell Exposes Canada as Haven for Terror, April 8, 2004

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Patrick Grady (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)

Still reeling from 9/11, Americans will be shocked to read Stewart Bell's account of how the Canadian Government has allowed Sihk, Tamil and Islamic terrorists to come into our home and turn it into a safe house for international terror.

Bell, who writes for the National Post and is Canada's leading reporter on national security and terrorism, has taken on the courageous task of warning Canadians about the terrorists living amongst us. This has stirred up a real hornets' nest. For his troubles, he has been threatened by many who don't like his message and has been branded as anti-Islamic by the Canadian Islamic Congress.

Bell's litany of terrorist incidents around the world involving Canadian terrorists is long enough to qualify Canada for membership in the Axis of Evil. The most infamous are: the 1985 Air India bombing; the 1991 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi; the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York; the 1993 assassination of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa; the 1995 blast at the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad; the murder of 58 tourists in Egypt in 1997; the 1997 truck explosion in Sri Lanka that killed 100; the bloody Bali night club bombings in 2002; and the 2003 attack on the housing compound in Riyadh.

Americans need to read this thoroughly-researched and well-documented book to learn about the threat they face from Canadian-based terrorists.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cold Terror, April 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)

Canadians need to read this book. We have been sanguine for too long, letting our government continue to its ostrich mentality.
Bell writes a comprehensive and coherant book on terrorist activies in Canada going on under the radar. My dismay is that it has recieved such little attention until now.