The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction PDF
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THE NEW TERRORISM T HE N EW T ERROR- ISM Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction Walter Laqueur NEW YORK OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITYPRESS 1999 OxfordUniversityPress Oxford NewYork Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota´ BuenosAires Calcutta CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi Florence HongKong Istanbul Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sa˜oPaulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw andassociatedcompaniesin Berlin Ibadan Copyright(cid:1)1999byWalterLaqueur PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc., 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recording,orotherwise,withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Laqueur,Walter,1921– Thenewterrorism:fanaticismandthearmsofmassdestruction/ WalterLaqueur. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0–19–511816–2 1.Terrorism. 2.Terrorism—Forecasting. 3.Weaponsofmass destruction. 4.Radicalism. 5.Fanaticism. I.Title. HV6431.L351999 363.3'2—dc21 98-52012 DesignbyAdamB.Bohannon Printing135798642 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Contents Acknowledgments,vii Introduction,3 Terrorism and History,8 WeaponsofMassDestruction,49 Terrorist Motives:Marx, Muhammad,and Armageddon,79 Terror and theFar Right,105 Religion and Terrorism,127 StateTerrorism,156 ExoticTerrorism,184 Terrorism and Organized Crime,210 Terrorism Todayand Tomorrow,226 Terrorism oftheFuture,254 BibliographicalEssay, 283 Index,301 Acknowledgments I n this endeavor I had the help and advice of a number ofcolleagues, includingBruceHoffman, Jessica Stern, Seth Carus, Brad Roberts, Ehud Sprinzak, Zed Davis, Frank Ciluffo, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Dr. Martin Silverstein, and Josef Pilat. James K. Campbell, Rob Purvis, Frederique Sandretto, Tore Bjorgo, and Jeffrey Kaplan put unpublished material at my disposal. Larissa Dinsmore, Maureen Hag- gard,WillYoung,andBenjamin Melenson,myresearchassistants,aswell asKeri Anderson,CSISlibrarian,helped meto get research materialthat was not easy to obtain and that I might have missed. Howard Sargent, SherryFoehr,Jon Beckmann,andThomasLeBienhelpedwitheditingthe manuscript, and Steven Glick and Benjamin Graham guided mystepsas far as computer work was concerned. Last but not least I would like to thank theEarhart Foundation for a generousresearch grant. Washington,D.C. October 1998 vii
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