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To: stockman_scott who wrote (53934)	10/22/2002 12:53:58 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

<<...The Age of Sacred Terror by Benjamin and Simon...>> Thanks for pointing that out...I may add it to my reading list. I'm a bit further in the book now and have more mixed views. It's not a must read on the order of Ken Pollack's book but very helpful nonetheless. As I posted earlier and still consider it to be so: 1. It's the best short introduction to the Islamist movement drawn through the prism of 9-11, I've read. 2. It's the best argument, however brief, that the motivations for the 9-11 attack were religious. 3. It's a counter argument to Kepel's argument that Islamism is on the decline. While agreeing with Kepel's conclusion, they see it as a temporary moment and then work through a series of country snap shots to argue that it may not be so. The scariest stuff I've read yet. 4. It's pretty dry so far on the Clinton years. If one wishes to read an argument that the counterterrorism folk within the Clinton administration saw Al Q coming and tried to do a great deal to get out ahead of the threat, this book is for you. Moreover, it's a devastating critique of Louis Freeh and the FBI, much of which fits with the perceptions we now see after 9-11.