Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

by Dore Gold

Overview

In Hatred’s Kingdom, Dore Gold has the goods on Saudi Arabia, proving how it is actively supporting terrorism. Using previously unpublished documents, Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and internationally known Middle East strategy expert, pieces together the links between the current wave of global terrorism—from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia—and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.

Gold reveals:

How September 11 was only the most dramatic example of a new breed of terrorism, even now poised to strike again, that was born and nurtured in Saudi Arabia and quietly unleashed on the international community.

The deadly recipe that creates the new terrorism: a broad financial and military network mixed together with a strong motivating ideology that could compel people to sacrifice their lives and commit mass murder. Both of these ingredients grew together in Saudi Arabia, in a movement called Wahhabism.

How Wahhabi preachers in the main mosques of Saudi Arabia justify and support continued hostile acts against the U.S. and the West (translated sermons included).

How prominent Saudi Wahhabi clerics actually justify the 9/11 attacks in publications, which are revealed here and translated.

Shocking evidence of how the Saudis have financed the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda and Hamas. Gold reveals the discovery of cancelled Saudi checks found in a Hamas headquarters in the West Bank. Internal Palestinian intelligence and political reports explicitly tie Saudi Arabia to radical Palestinian terrorist groups engaged in suicide bombings. Similar proof of Saudi backing for Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, and the U.S. are presented.

Dore Gold connects the dots. He combines a rich knowledge of the history of the Middle East with a decade of hands-on diplomatic experience. If there is a single book that clearly explains Saudi Arabia, the complexities of the Middle East, and the rise of the new global terrorism in one volume, this is the one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895261359
Publisher:	Regnery Publishing
Publication date:	02/15/2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	List of Maps	xi
	Introduction: The Roots of Terror	1
Chapter 1	Violent Origins: Reviving Jihad and the War Against the Polytheists	17
Chapter 2	Countering the Wahhabi Menace	31
Chapter 3	"White Terror" The Ikhwan and the Rise of the Modern Saudi Kingdom	41
Chapter 4	Building the Modern Saudi State: Oil, the Palestine Question, and the Americans	57
Chapter 5	Reactivating Wahhabism	73
Chapter 6	The Hothouse for Militant Islamic Radicalism	89
Chapter 7	Wahhabism Reasserts Itself	105
Chapter 8	Wahhabism's Global Reach	125
Chapter 9	Countdown to September 11: The Gulf War and Wahhabism's New Outburst in the 1990s	157
Chapter 10	The Hatred Continues	185
Chapter 11	Was Saudi Arabia Finally Changing?	213
	Conclusion: Ending the Hatred	233
Appendix	Saudi Support for Terrorism: The Evidence	249
	Notes	273
	Glossary	307
	Acknowledgments	311
	Index	315
	About the Author	333
	Other Works	335