Confronting Fear

by Cronin, Isaac

• ISBN13: 9781560253990
• ISBN10: 1560253991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-24
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Confronting Fear addresses the question, "How did we get here?" The events of September 11, 2001, had their origins in both the recent history of the Middle East and in events that took place hundreds of years ago in Europe and elsewhere. The writing collected in Confronting Fear provides the broadest possible basis to probe and understand these horribly destructive actswhose purpose and rationale is complex and sometimes even contradictoryby offering both a perceptive and comprehensive long view. It gets into the mind of the terrorist, from those who present terrorism as a tool against the status quo to those who see it as a tool to bolster the status quo to those who insist terrorism is a purely ideological act. Confronting Fear includes portraits from a global rogue's gallery of terrorism, including Robespierre, Lawrence of Arabia, Abu Nidal, Carlos the Jackal, The Red Army, Theodore Kaczynski, Aum Shinrikyo, and Osama bin Laden. There are also discussions of movements that are or have been based in Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Ireland, Algeria, the United States, Afghanistan, Israel, and Palestine, with writings by experts and literary figures ranging from Simon Schama, T. E. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad to Menachem Begin and V.S. Naipaul.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Isaac Cronin
PRE-HISTORY
Section introduction	2	(2)
from A History of Terrorism	4	(13)
Walter Laqueur
from The Science of Revolutionary Warfare	17	(5)
Johann Most
President McKinley Shot, The Trial and Execution of Leon Czolgosz	22	(11)
Propaganda by Deed---The Greenwich Observatory Bomb of 1894	33	(3)
from The Secret Agent	36	(11)
Joseph Conrad
POLITICAL TERRORISM
Section introduction	44	(3)
from The Wretched of the Earth: The Third World and Violence	47	(10)
Frantz Fanon
from Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla	57	(18)
Carlos Marighella
from On Terrorism and the State	75	(5)
Gianfranco Sanguinetti
from No One a Neutral: Political Hostage Taking in the Modern World	80	(14)
Norman Antokol
Mayer Nudell
from Televisionaries: The Red Army Faction Story	94	(17)
Tom Vague
from Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal	111	(22)
John Follain
from The Dirty War	133	(21)
Martin Dillon
from ETA: Profile of a Terrorist Group	154	(6)
Yonah Alexander
Michael Swetnam
Herbert M. Levine
from My People Shall Live	160	(24)
Leila Khaled
from Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire	184	(26)
Patrick Seale
from One Day In September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation Wrath of God	210	(17)
Simon Reeve
from Fugitive Days	227	(12)
Bill Ayers
RELIGIOUS TERRORISM
Section introduction	236	(3)
from The Introduction to Social Justice in Islam	239	(14)
Hamid Algar
from The New Terrorism	253	(15)
Walter Laqueur
from The Diversity of Bio-Weapons	268	(7)
Joshua Lederberg
from Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World	275	(7)
Benjamin R. Barber
The Moral Logic of Hizballah	282	(12)
Martin Kramer
from Hamas Website	294	(10)
from The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber	304	(22)
Samuel M. Katz
from Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam	326	(19)
Richard Labeviere
from Taliban	345	(18)
Ahmed Rashid
from Unholy Wars	363	(15)
John K. Cooley
from The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism	378	(24)
Simon Reeve
Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places	402	(4)
Osama bin Laden
A Portrait of the Terrorist from Shy Child to Singleminded Killer	406	(10)
Jim Yardley
FRINGE TERORRISM
Section introduction	414	(2)
The International Jew	416	(5)
Henry Ford
from Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right	421	(17)
James Coates
from Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism	438	(13)
Patricia Baird-Windle
Eleanor J. Bader
from American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing	451	(35)
Lou Michel
Dan Herbeck
from The Unabomber's Manifesto	486	(7)
Theodore Kaczynski
from Underground	493	(23)
Haruki Murakami
CONFRONTING TERRORISM
Section introduction	514	(2)
Understanding Terrorist Behavior: The Limits and Opportunities of Psychological Inquiry	516	(21)
Walter Reich
from Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World	537	(14)
Kanan Makiya
Acknowledgments	551	(2)
Photo Credits	553	(1)
Permissions	554	(2)
Bibliography	556	(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading	558