Introduction : the roots of terror -- Chap. 1. Violent origins : reviving jihad and the war against the polytheists -- Chap. 2. Countering the Wahhabi menace -- Chap. 3. White terror : the Ikhwan and the rise of the modern Saudi Kingdom -- Chap. 4. Building the modern Saudi state : oil, the Palestine question, and the Americans -- Chap. 5. Reactivating Wahhbism -- Chap. 6. The hothouse for militant Islamic radicalism -- Chap. 7. Wahhabism reasserts itself -- Chap. 8. Wahhabism's global reach -- Chap. 9. Countdown to September 11 : the Gulf War and Wahhabism's new outburst in the 1990's -- Chap. 10. The hatred continues -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Saudi support for terrorism : the evidence -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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The former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. takes a close-up look at international terrorism, the radical Wahab Islam sect and their promotion of Islamic extremism, and the role of Saudi Arabia in promoting and sustaining terrorist activity.