- Title: [SW Country](By Richard Labeviere) DOLLARS
FOR TERROR: The United States and Islam - NON-FICTION
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- Date :[Friday, May 05, 2000 8:08 PM EST ]
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DOLLARS FOR TERROR: The United States and Islam
By Richard Labeviere, trans. by Martin DeMers.
Algora (222 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10022; 212-6780232), $24.95 paper (400p)
ISBN 1-892941-06-6
In a provocative expose, Swiss TV journalist Labeviere argues that the real threat to
the West from radical Islamic fundamentalism comes not from Iran or Iraq but rather from
America's solid allies- -Saudi Arabia and neighboring oil monarchies. Based on his
four-year investigation, Labeviere charges that Saudi Arabia is the principal financial
backer of extremist Islamist movements around the world. The linchpin in this operation,
he states, is Saudi billionaire Osama bin Ladin, trained by the CIA, who recruited, armed
and trained in turn Arab volunteers to fight the Soviet army in the Afghanistan war,
thereby strengthening the totalitarian Muslim Taliban regime. Bin Ladin, who, according to
the author, maintains close ties with the Saudi and Pakistani secret services, now
bankrolls terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and abets Islamist extremist movements
in Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, South Africa, Algeria
and elsewhere. Veterans of the Afghan "holy war" have been implicated in the
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City and the attempted murder of
Egyptian president Mubarak in 1996. In Labeviere's riveting, often shocking, analysis, the
U.S. is an accessory in the rise of Islam, because it manipulates and aids radical Muslim
groups in its shortsighted pursuit of its economic interests, especially the energy
resources of the Middle East and the oil- and mineral-rich former Soviet republics of
Central Asia. Labeviere shows how radical Islamic fundamentalism spreads its influence on
two levels: above board, through investment firms, banks and shell companies, and
clandestinely, through a network of drug dealing, weapons smuggling and money laundering.
This important book sounds a wake-up call to U.S. policy makers. (Release May)
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