Research Catalog

Title

The new jackals : Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism / Simon Reeve.

Author

Reeve, Simon.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Description

294 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Ramzi Yousef, the British-educated Islamic extremist who masterminded the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, was, according to FBI agents who tracked him, the most dangerous man in the world.
• While on the run from a massive two-year international manhunt, Yousef bombed a Philippine Airlines flight and an Iranian temple, and plotted simultaneously to destroy eleven American airplanes over the Pacific, to attack CIA headquarters using a light aircraft armed with chemical weapons, and to assassinate President Clinton, the pope, and other world leaders.".
• "Drawing on previously unpublished documents and on interviews with FBI agents, Western intelligence sources, and Yousef's supporters, victims, and collaborators, Simon Reeve paints a compelling and disconcerting portrait of this sinister villain.
• He also examines Yousef's close links with Osama bin Laden, the shadowy figure behind global Islamic terrorism, and assesses the current status of bin Laden's network, including his support within the Middle East and his growing relationship with Saddam Hussein."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Terrorism > New York (State) > New York
• Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
• World Trade Center Bombing, New York, N.Y., 1993
• Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Targeting Terror -- Ch. 1. The Twin Towers -- Ch. 2. Ground Zero -- Ch. 3. Manhunt -- Ch. 4. The Bojinka Plot -- Ch. 5. The Long Arm of the Law -- Ch. 6. The Origins of Terror -- Ch. 7. Coming to America -- Ch. 8. The Eminence Grise -- Ch. 9. Al Qaeda -- Ch. 10. Unravelling Terror -- Ch. 11. Militant Islam -- Ch. 12. Supermax -- Conclusion: Future Terror.

ISBN

1555534074 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

99037245

OCLC

• 41674322
• ocm41674322
• SCSB-4207047

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries