About the Author

Graham E. Fuller was a career operations officer at CIA, serving 17 years overseas. He was later vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA. After retiring from CIA he served as a senior political scientist at RAND for twelve years. He is a well-known Middle East specialist who has written dozens of articles and ten books on Muslim world politics, Islamic fundamentalism, and is finishing a first novel. He has two daughters. He now lives with his wife in British Columbia where he is an adjunct professor of History at Simon Fraser University; he devotes much of his spare time to eagles, salmon and bears.