Product Description: From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an area larger than the United Kingdom to its own vicious brand of Sharia law...read more

Product Description: «Claro, conciso e inequívoco. En este libro, la autora analiza la peligrosa deriva del terrorismo internacional, hasta ahora completamente malinterpretada por Occidente y sus aliados». Michael Chandler, coautor de Countering Terrorism y presidente y exmiembro del Equipo de Seguimiento del Comité de Sanciones a Al Qaeda en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU Desde su aparición a finales de la década de 1990 como aspiración yihadista del líder terrorista Abu Musab al Zarqawi, el Estado Islámico (conocido bajo diversos nombres, ISIS, ISIL, Al Qaeda de Irak) se ha transformado en una imponente empresa que trastoca las fronteras de países de Medio Oriente e impone en una superficie geográfica mayor que la del Reino Unido su brutal marca de la sharía...read more

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Product Description: New product. Never used!

Product Description: What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries transmuting into global empires? And will the entire system be transformed by the advent of sharia economics? With the precision of an economist and the narrative deftness of a storyteller, syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni examines how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces, creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism...read more

Product Description: The Balkans―the gateway between East and West―are also Europe's soft underbelly, a rough neighborhood where organized crime and terrorism present a constant threat. This eye-opening book details how 15 years of misguided Western interventions, political scheming, and local mafia appeasement, compounded by a massive infusion of Arab cash, fundamentalist Islamic preaching and mosque-building have allowed radical Islamic groups to fill in the cracks between internal ethnic and religious schisms and take root in key areas of the Balkans...read more

Examines the climate in which Iraq's most notorious insurgent, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, opened a different front in the modern jihad. This work presents an account of the regrouping of terror networks under a different leadership, tracing the ascent of one of the globe's most enigmatic and deadly figures.

Argues that the rise of Islamic terrorism is based not on religious fervor but on the desire for financial gain, a wish to separate the Muslim world from the Western economic system, and opposition to corrupt Arab governments.

Argues that the rise of Islamic terrorism is based not on religious fervor but on the desire for financial gain, a wish to separate the Muslim world from the Western economic system, and opposition to corrupt Arab governments.