TY  - BOOK
AU  - CORDESMAN Anthony H
TI  - Transnational threats from the Middle East: crying wolf or crying havoc?
SN  - 158487001X (pbk.)
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Carlisle, Pa., USA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
KW  - DRUG TRADE
KW  - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - TERRORISM
KW  - ORGANISED CRIME
KW  - PROLIFERATION
KW  - TERRORIST GROUPS
KW  - WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
N2  - Analyses the significant potential threats to the West posed by the Middle East. Problems examined include narcotics and organised crime; immigration; terrorism; and arms proliferation, particularly with reference to weapons of mass destruction. The author asserts that if the threats of Middle Eastern terrorism and proliferation were to be combined into super-terrorism, the result would create a new form of asymmetric warfare for which the West is ill-prepared
ER  -