Who are al-Qaeda and what do they want? Is religious terrorism a new phenomenon? What drives someone to become a suicide bomber? Author and UN Security advisor Leonard Weinberg Answers these and other questions, looking at terrorism as a tactic from the purges of the French Revolution to the death squads of Colombia. Drawing on the lessons of the past to confront the challenges of the present, he asks: can a government commit acts of terror? What happens when the ...
