The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming ApocalypseThe author reveals persuasive evidence that al Qaeda has now established connections with the Sicilian Mafia, which is helping to finance terrorism through the sale of heroin. In addition, through its ties to the Chechen Mafia, the group responsible for the heinous attack on a Russian school, al Qaeda has managed to obtain nuclear weapons from poorly secured and carelessly guarded storehouses in Russia. Perhaps the most disturbing evidence uncovered by Williams is the relation of al Qaeda to an obscure Salvadoran street gang, which calls itself Mara Salvatrucha and has expanded exponentially. No other book deals with the connection between international, extremist Islamic terrorism and organized crime--a connection that has made possible the establishment of a well-financed branch of al Qaeda in Latin America and the creation of terrorist cells in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States. |
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... Iraq , the strongest neighboring Arab state , and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weak- ness to guarantee ...
... Iraq , the strongest neighboring Arab state , and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weak- ness to guarantee ...
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... Iraq in March 2003. Without toppling Saddam Hussein , propping up a friendly regime , and establishing strategically located military bases throughout Iraq , the United States could not hope to contain the growing nuclear threat from ...
... Iraq in March 2003. Without toppling Saddam Hussein , propping up a friendly regime , and establishing strategically located military bases throughout Iraq , the United States could not hope to contain the growing nuclear threat from ...
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... Iraq . Thus , a mon- umental event had taken place that remained ignored by Western observers . The Muslim world of Sunnis and Shiites , thanks largely to Imad Mugniyah , had become united . " We have been screaming at them for more ...
... Iraq . Thus , a mon- umental event had taken place that remained ignored by Western observers . The Muslim world of Sunnis and Shiites , thanks largely to Imad Mugniyah , had become united . " We have been screaming at them for more ...
Contents
PREFACE An Interview with Osama bin Laden | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Why We Fight America | 15 |
PART ONE THE ISLAMIC MAFIA | 23 |
Copyright | |
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