Cold Terror, How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism around the World
| Published date | 01 March 2005 |
| Date | 01 March 2005 |
| Author | Arne Kislenko |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200506000130 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
a wide readership.
It
will help readers articulate what they already
know. This reviewer hopes
that
the book also inspires new creative
engagement with difficult dilemmas.
Jeremi Suri/University
of
Wisconsin-Madison
COLD
TERROR
How Canada Nurtures and ExportsTerrorism Around the World
Stewart Bell
Toronto: Wiley, 2004. xxviii, 244pp, $36.99 cloth (ISBN 0-470-
83463-3)
THE 9/11
INVESTIGATIONS
Staff Reports
of
the 9/11 Commission Excerpts from the House-
Senate Joint Inquiry Report on 9/11
Edited by Steven Strasser
New
York:
PublicAffairs, 2004. 580pp, $22.95 paper
(ISBN
1-58648-
279-3)
Anyone interested in the world
of
intelligence should read The 9/11
.r\investigations.
It
offers remarkable insight on the events
of
11
September 2001, as well as the dynamics within the
us
intelligence
community.
The
book isa compilation
of
statements, testimonies, and excerpts
from inquiries, edited by Steven Strasser
and
introduced by Craig
Whitney
of
the New
YtJrk
Times.
It
also contains a glossary
of
terms, a
select chronology
of
terrorist attacks, and reproductions
of
key govern-
ment documents, including the now-infamous 6 August 2001 presi-
dential daily briefing entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike the
US."
Those anxious
about
combing through the official 585-page 9/11
Commission Report will welcome this volume for its clariry.
Those
interested in historical context will appreciate Whitney's deft analysis
of
the commission
and
its findings compared to congressional
inquiries on Pearl Harbor, the assassination
ofjohn
F.
Kennedy, Cuba,
and Vietnam. Everyone worried about terrorism will be engrossed by
the look inside the machinations
of
national security.
Formally named the national commission on terrorist attacks upon
the United States, the 9/11 commission wasa bipartisan, independent
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JOURNAL
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