Reviews

"This thoughtful and incisive inquiry yields much insight into some of the most important issues of today, and tomorrow." -- Noam Chomsky"This book opens a vista onto the complex financial background of global terrorism that both nurtures and feeds off it and, in the process, onto some of the under-publicized characteristics of the new (post-Cold War) economy." -- George Magnus, Chief Economist, UBS Warburg "A tour-de-force of detective work in economics and theory building in politics that sheds new light on the most worrying phenomenon of the new millennium." -- Professor Paul Gilbert, University of Hull, and author of "New Terror, New War"Loretta Napoleoni has accomplished an extraordinary task of research in tracking, finding and graphically describing the financiers and the institutions supporting global terrorism, including al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Her book is the most definitive account seen so far of the deep and intricate links between terrorist networks and organized crime, from the Italian mafia to the new Eastern European networks." -- John K. Cooley, correspondent for ABC News and author of Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism A masterpiece& This book should be required reading for everyone in the White House, State Department and Pentagon. -- Greg Palast, journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Penetrating, lucid and essential. -- Henry Porter, author of Empire State and A Spy s Life Loretta Napoleoni s description of the new economy of terror shows how terrorist financing poses a great threat to our free-market system and our shared world. -- Raymond W. Baker, Senior Fellow, Center forInternational Policy Topical and illuminating. Anyone who wants to know about the under-world of terrorist organizations and how they are financed must read this book. -- G. Kenneth Berhard, Connecticut State Representative"The embarrassing truth is that most books on terrorism have been written by people who have never spoken to a terrorist. The author of this volume has...This book breaks new ground, offering fresh insights into some of the financial underpinnings of contemporary terrorism." -- Alex P. Schmid, Officer-in-Charge, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations"From the creation of illegal organizations and subverted international economic systems; to trafficking money to terrorist groups; to smuggling, Modern Jihad is quite a different take on global terrorism and is strongly recommended as a mainstay addition to any serious collection on contemporary terrorism." -- Library Bookwatch