151 of 175 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Moderate Response to a Politically Charged Book, February 8, 2004
This review is from: The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection (Paperback)
While most readers of Raimondo's book will probably have a strong response in one direction or the other, I did not find myself particularly offended ("that liar etc.") or outraged ("Israel is out of control") by Raimondo's book. However, this may be because I am both familiar with Raimondo's Antiwar column and with the nature of US - Israel relations. While Raimondo clearly establishes: (1) that the Israeli secret service was very active in the US just prior to the 9/11 attacks, and (2) that there was considerable efforts on the part of the US government to cover up this fact, Raimondo's deeper inferences in this book are less convincing. This is in part because Raimondo's book is largely a summary of the media coverage that the above mentioned Israeli activity received world-wide. Consequently, Raimondo's new book reads more like a collage of news stories pieced together, that are supplemented by his editorial view points, than a coherent thesis that is based on original information and well synthesized scholarly research.
Nevertheless, the overall picture that Raimondo paints is disturbing and unfortunately somewhat believable. When Raimondo's thesis is considered in the context of what is undisputably known about US - Israeli relations (i.e., the US overlooking probable Israeli IAEA infractions and the general pro-Israeli attitude of the Bush administration with respect to the Israel - Palestine conflict), his charges certainly deserve more than a condescending dismissal that states that they are ridiculous.
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98 of 115 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very necessary read., December 16, 2004
This review is from: The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection (Paperback)
Fascinating, brief summary of all the evidence suggesting that Israel knew what the 9/11 hijackers' intentions were well before they carried them out and didn't tell us by one of the most independent thinkers around. Also speculates that the Israel government kept quiet because it was in Israel's strategic interest to set the U.S. against the Arab world and provides a brief history of similar behavior on the part of the Israeli government in the past. Pick up this book if you have enjoyed Raimondo's columns on antiwar.com--or even if you are just a patriotic American interested in the truth.
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163 of 200 people found the following review helpful:
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This book will change the way you think about 9/11, December 14, 2003
This review is from: The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection (Paperback)
This book will change the way you think about 9/11 - and the resulting wars.
Raimondo amasses so much evidence - all culled from "mainstream" sources -- that Israeli agents were tracking the 9/11 hijackers that I don't see how any objective analyst can deny it.
The only question is: What did they know, and when did they know it? Oh, and: why didn't they tell us what they knew?
Written in clear, incisive prose, "The Terror Enigma" is, I believe, going to be an underground best-seller. It's too bad the American media doesn't have the guts to uncover what Raimondo, an independent investigator and writer, has discovered on his own: perhaps, then, we would get some answers to all the unanswered questions about 9/11.
As the Bush administration stonewalls the 9/11 Commission, which is charged with investigating and uncovering the truth about that seminal event, The Terror Enigma is an important piece in the puzzle, without which we cannot see the larger picture.
Buy it, read it, and give it to your friends.
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