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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (49249)	10/7/2002 5:57:24 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Gideon's Blog has a review of Kepel's book that might interest you: Thanks for the post, Nadine. I would never have seen it otherwise. His summary is very fair though a bit thin if he intended it to be thorough. There is more interesting detail in Kepel's arguments than one would think from this review. So who is the Gideon of Gideon's blog? I thought his first criticism missed Kepel's argument. He argues that Kepel is wrong to consider that the Bader-Meinhof gang was an instance of the death throes of communism in Europe. I don't recall whether Kepel considers it that broadly. I assumed he meant the fortunes of state take over attempts by communist parties in Western Europe. And thus, the B-M bit came out of the downward spiral of that effort. That needs to be delinked from Central American politics. I agree, unfortunately, with his other conclusion, that this decline of Islamist political movements most likely leads to military regimes rather than democratic ones. Only 800 to go.