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Allah's torch : a report from behind the scenes in Asia's war on terror / Tracy Dahlby.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dahlby, Tracy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dahlby, Tracy.
- Terrorism--Indonesia.
- Terrorism.
- Americans.
- Anti-Americanism.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Indonesia.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam--Indonesia.
- Anti-Americanism--Indonesia.
- Journalists--Indonesia--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Americans--Indonesia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, [2005]
- Summary:
- Long before September 11, 2001, terrorism's global elite was already zeroing in on Indonesia-the world's most populous Islamic nation, and its largest archipelago, where dense jungles and intricate, unpatrolled coastlines conceal almost endless hiding places. Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Tracy Dahlby takes us into this dangerous terrain, both before and after 9/11, interweaving the divergent perspectives of Koran-thumping preachers, hardened holy warriors, military commandos, and embattled Muslim moderates, in a first-rate reporting adventure that sheds new light on the epidemic chaos now threatening our international community.
- By turns harrowing, thought-provoking, and humorous, Allah's Torch charts a fascinating course through a sprawling land unknown to most Americans where the home-bred Jemaah Islamiyah, Asia's answer to Al Qaeda, pursues its deadly ambition of pressing all of Southeast Asia under the yoke of a pure Islamic super-state.
- With the trained observer's eye for detail and veteran newsman's sense of the story hidden behind the headlines, Dahlby gives readers a highly personal tour of the militant Jakarta slums, terrorist-traumatized Bali, and the Islamic heartland on the island of Java, where the outcome of a struggle now raging between moderate Muslims and their extremist brethren for the country's Islamic soul promises to have far-reaching effects on the lives of ordinary Americans. In so doing, Dahlby maps out the chilling realities of what radical Islam has planned for us as our worlds inevitably collide-and offers some surprising conclusions about how America's leaders-and its citizens-can best defend our country against Asia's new Osama bin Ladens.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Radical Mystery Tour 1
- 1 Holy War 11
- 2 Unbottled Lightning 20
- 3 Unhappy Campers 33
- 4 Mike 50
- 5 Murderers and Thieves 62
- 6 Paradise 71
- 7 Frogs 85
- 8 Original Sin 96
- 9 Escape 108
- 10 Battle of Wills 125
- 11 Hidden Force 137
- 12 Fear Itself 150
- 13 Fatwa 168
- 14 Rizieq 186
- 15 Dead Men Walking 199
- 16 Lair 211
- 17 Terror High 222
- 18 The Mellow and the Brave 243
- 19 Wild Horses 256
- 20 Java Man 269
- Epilogue: Jihad Everlasting 283.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-293) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0060560908
- OCLC:
- 56032735
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