Modern Jihad - Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks by Lorreta Napoleoni

'Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind
the Terror Networks' by Loretta Napoleoni

Economist, political analyst
 and novelist Loretta Napoleoni
 has spent several years
 interviewing former members
 of Italian armed groups.
 Thanks to her unique insight
 into the management of
 armed organizations, she
 has written a book on a new
 shocking phenomenon:
 the economics of terrorism.

'Modern Jihad' propels the
 the reader into the nether-
 world of illegal organizations.
 From the Contras to Al Qaeda
 Loretta Napoleoni maps out
 the arteries of an inter-
 national economic system
 that feeds armed groups the
 world over with and endless
 supply of cash. Chasing the
 terror money, she takes the
 reader from CIA headquarters
 to the smuggling routes of
 the Far East, from the back
 rooms of Wall Street to
 hawala exchanges in the
 Middle East.

Shifting the focus away
 from religious and cultural
 differences, Napoleoni
 asseses the full extent of
 the role of the West in
 developing the economies of
 armed organizations and
 provides a valuable insight
 into the real factors
 dividing 'East' and 'West'.

'Modern Jihad: Tracing the
 Dollars behind the Terror
 Networks'
 by Loretta Napoleoni
 Publication Date: Oct. 28
 Pluto Press
 Hardcover, 273pp.
 ISBN: 0745321178

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