In this impressively detailed and exhaustively documented book, John K. Cooley gets to the roots of the international
terrorist
organizations that are striking fear and
violence into the world’s populations. Beginning with surprising revelations about U.S. and Soviet actions in Afghanistan during the Cold War, Cooley traces the origins of today’s terror back to the West’s strategy of creating an army of fanatical Muslim warriors to mire the USSR in its own Vietnam. While that plan was successful, it gave birth to the
terrorist violence we face today, and Cooley deftly explains how. getabstract.com strongly recommends this book to all readers for the historic context lacking in mainstream media coverage of the war on terrorism.