Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 8479535547, Paperback)

Este es el primer libro sobre la nueva economía del terrorismo islámico actual. Su autora, una especialista en terrorismo, economía y mundo árabe, ofrece una perspectiva inédita: el terrorismo islámico, afirma Napoleoni, en realidad no es religioso, sino económico.

A lo largo de este último medio siglo, los miembros de las organizaciones armadas han sido perseguidos en sus países de origen por parte de las mismas fuerzas políticas que les han animado a servir, fuera de su territorio, a los intereses económicos de Occidente y de sus aliados. Esta dualidad ha proporcionado a las organizaciones del terror la oportunidad de devolver el golpe y de organizar su propia economía. Este fenómeno es definido por la autora como la Nueva Economía del Terror, una red internacional que relaciona los sistemas de apoyo y logísticos de los grupos armados.

Como en las Cruzadas, la religión no es más que un mero instrumento para el reclutamiento de efectivos; la verdadera fuerza impulsora es la economía.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0745321178, Hardcover)

"Modern Jihad: The New Economy of Terror" propels the reader into the netherworld of illegal organizations. From the Contras to Al Qaeda, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over with an endless supply of cash. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to Hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

The "economy of terror" that Napoleoni identifies is a 1.5 trillion-dollar fast-growing economic system. It is made up of illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading, oil and diamonds smuggling, as well as charitable donations, profits from legal businesses and an intricate system of finance. Most importantly, Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between economies run by armed groups and western economies. This ranges from the consumption of narcotics to the production of arms, and from the recycling of illegal money to speculation on the stock markets, as occurred prior to 9/11.

Loretta Napoleoni is the first author to tackle the issues raised by September 11th 2001 from a specifically economic perspective. Presenting an astonishing array of evidence, taken from extensive research and interviews, the book is a fascinating account of controversial issues that lie at the heart of many of today's international problems. Revealing how the 'new economy of terror' has evolved by proxy through various wars -- from the Cold War to Al Qaeda -- Napoleoni argues that today's Islamic terror groups are driven by real economic forces in the Muslim world. They are the same forces that have been hindered in the last century by the economic interests of both the West and its allies, the oligarchic powers of the Middle East.

Shifting the focus away from religious and cultural differences, Napoleoni assesses the full extent of the role of the West in developing the economies of armed organisations and provides a valuable insight into real factors dividing "East" and "West".

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 1583226737, Paperback)

"Napoleoni has accomplished an extraordinary task of research in tracking, finding and graphically describing the financiers and the institutions supporting global terrorism, including al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden."-John K. Cooley, author of Unholy Wars

"A masterpiece . . . This book should be required reading for everyone in the White House, State Department and Pentagon."-Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and The Joker's Wild: Dubya's Trick Deck

In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

Napoleoni describes the "New Economy of Terror," "a fast-growing international economic system with a turnover of about $1.5 trillion [that] is challenging Western hegemony." It is made up of illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading and oil and diamond smuggling, as well as charitable donations and legal profits. Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between economies run by armed groups and Western economies. "As in the Crusades, religion is simply a recruitment tool; the real driving force is economics."

A pioneering examination of the system and methods by which international terrorism is financed, Terror Incorporated is "penetrating, lucid and essential" (Harry Porter, author of Empire State).

Loretta Napoleoni, a former Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Rotary scholar at the London School of Economics, is an expert on international terrorism who has worked as an economist and foreign correspondent for Italy's financial papers. She has translated and edited books on terrorism and was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence.