War Without End The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response

The first war of the twenty-first century That is how President George W. Bush described the start of a war against terror signaled by the catastrophic terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, on 11 September 2001. In reality, though, that war was started by President Bill Clinton in August 1998 following the Islamist terrorists bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam, which killed 224 people and injured over 5,000. After providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as a socio-political ideology, Dilip Hiro outlines the Islamist movements that have thrived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and their changing relationship with America. It is within this historical context that he describes the rising menace of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida network. Hiro examines the Pentagons amazingly swift victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan. He then discusses the implications of the Bush Doctrine, encapsulated in his declaration, So long as anybody is terrorizing eHiro, Dilip is the author of 'War Without End The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response', published 2002 under ISBN 9780415288026 and ISBN 0415288029.