Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed--and How to Stop It, Revised Edition
by Rachel Ehrenfeld
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566252318/qid=1113834868/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-2588786-3154439
From Publishers Weekly
Conservative analyst and pundit Ehrenfeld contends that our image of terrorism is all wrong. Rather than shadowy cells of young, religious martyrs, the true face of terror, she says, is an international network of corrupt state leaders, superwealthy contributors, and drug and crime kingpins. Without money, especially laundered U.S. dollars, there would be no terror, and this lively, well-documented primer reveals the sources, the amounts and the armed terror organizations they support. Not surprisingly, the author of Narco-Terrorism is at her best on the ironies of the West's appetite for drugs, which terror groups exploit for funding, arms and recruiting those who would undermine a degenerate Western society. Some readers might be alienated or distracted by the author's exhaustive yet fascinating description of the activities and funding of the PLO, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which takes up nearly half the book. Reigniting the drug war and supporting Israel are Ehrenfeld's clear national security priorities, as are other policy initiatives like regime removal and economic sanctions for states sponsoring terrorism. But the Bush administration and a succession of U.S. and Western leaders are taken to task for "a willful blindness" to the role of the international oil and drug trades in funding terror and for "lacking the political will" to confront Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and other states for their "anti-Western agenda." Ehrenfeld's prescription for ending terrorism might depend on an unrealistic hope for immediate international cooperation, but this timely expos‚ should heat up public demand for real progress in the war on terrorism.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description:
By terrorism expert Rachel Ehrenfeld, uncovers the clandestine and sinister ways that Islamic terrorist groups finance their global network. Terrorist have grown increasingly savvy in ways to bolster their financial power. Dr. Ehrenfeld's investigation also details how these undected billions are spent to bring about chaos and destablization. Funding Evil show offers realistic and provocative strategies for winning the war on terror.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Bonus Books; Expanded edition (February, 2005)
I'm going to check that one out. I liked her article about the PLO-IRA ties and several of the others I've come across.
IMHO, one of the best books I've read so far about state funding behind global terrorism is Dore Gold's Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism.