…tracing the money behind global terrorism.
By Loretta Napoleoni
This book starts out with a collect-a-set of bits that beginings of books have…Forward, Introduction, Preface, Acknowlegements and Prologue.
It then launches into a whirlwind tour of the American view of the terrorist map (the IRA are conspicuous by their absence – I presume because they now feel too uncomfortable for an American audience). There are lots of strands of information, most of which don’t seem to meet up in any coherent way. They paint an overall picture “Can you see what it is yet?”
It would be easy for someone reading this book to dismiss its contents as the work of a conspiracy theory nut. That may be, but she is at least reasonably well informed.
Of course I’m target audience, largely disgruntled with society and how it works, looking to find some validation of the conspiracy theories I hear.
For instance, there is a detailed description of the “Afghan Pipeline” for delivering American arms to the Mujahideen to fight the anti-Soviet Jihad. This term is now used to describe the oil pipeline across the country. The pipeline that was negotiated by the Bush family as part of their UNOCAL oil business. Odd how those talks seemed to fall apart in July 2001. Now, if I was cynical I’d attempt to link that to the apparent demolition of the WTC and the associated death of John ONeill.
Like I say, plenty of fuel. But either you’re convinced by the conspiracies or you aren’t – if not this book will just make you angry at wasting your time reading it. Otherwise its a lot of good solid information around which to hang your favorites.