Hambali,Bashir & the Bali bombers: Read how they were mainstream not extreme,and never "radicalized"-it's all in Sally Neighbour's In The Shadow Of Swords

by Ganesh Sahathevan

In her book In The Shadow Of Swords   ABC's Sally Neighbour does a good reporter's job of documenting the work of Hambali,Abu Bakat Bashir, the Bali bombers and the rest of Jemaah Islamiyah.
In doing so she has demonstrated (perhaps without realizing it) that Bashir's JI was actually mainstream, and did not really undergo any sort of process of "radicalization". While many of them fought in Afghanistan, anyone familiar with the practise of Islam in this region,  in particular Malaysia, will see much that is familiar in the mainstream. 


Given the decision to charge Hambali Neighbour's work serves as a useful reminder of what precisely motivated the Bali bombing and the targeting of Australians for murder. It is also useful to note that the book's subtitle is:

How Islamic Terrorists Declared War on Australia

Not Islamists, not extremists, not radical Islamist, but  Islamic Terrorists.
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Cover image - In The Shadow of Swords: How Islamic Terrorists Declared War on Australia
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In The Shadow of Swords: How Islamic Terrorists 

Declared War on Australia

by Sally Neighbour
On Sale: 15/11/2005
Format:
Paperback

About the Book

Following the Bali bombings, Australia suddenly found itself in the middle of the global war of terror. Worse still, it was a war with an enemy we never knew we had, and one we were struggling to understand. Award-winning ABC journalist Sally Neighbour has reported extensively on the rise of terrorism in South East Asia; the motivation, the leaders, the followers and the methods of training. Here, she takes readers into the secretive worlds of the men who masterminded terrorist acts, following their trail through the extensive network of mosques, religious schools and training camps where Osama bin Laden casts a long and formidable shadow. In this fully revised and updated version, Neighbour documents how Australia became caught up in the war on terrorism and how, despite the best of intentions, Australia's foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan and East timor helped make it a target. Neighbour, one of Australia's finest journalists, gives a gripping account of how violent operatives have been able to penetrate Australia. She outlines the arrests and trials since the Bali bombings and details the ongoing efforts to track down the hundreds of terrorists still at large. thoughtful and utterly compelling, In the Shadow of Swords shows why the war on terrorism is far from being over.


Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780732280116
  • ISBN 10: 0732280117
  • Imprint: 4th Estate - AU
  • On Sale: 15/11/2005
  • Pages: 480
  • List Price: 27.99 AUD
  • BISAC1: Society & social sciences / Politics & government


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