BENJAMIN Daniel <br/><br/>
The age of sacred terror 

 - New York:  Random House,  2002 
 - 490p. 
<br/><br/> Written by two former senior counterterrorism specialists with the U.S. National Security Council. Provides a very detailed study of the rise of religiously oriented terrorist extremists (mainly but not exclusively Islamic), the threat they pose to the West, how and why America let its defences down so badly, and finally what steps America and its allies need to take to respond to the continuing threat. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375508597 (hbk.):  25.95 US 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AL QAEDA<br/>UNITED STATES--COUNTERTERRORISM<br/>TERRORISM--UNITED STATES