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Summary: Bone chilling, heartbreaking, sinister tell-it-all
Review: Terrorist Hunter, by Anonymous, is bone chilling, sinister, and disturbing to read. While I am gazing fish-mouthedly page after page the inside scoops of terrorist groups into which this brave undercover woman infiltrates, an inexplicable sadness penetrates me: why is it that the good guys have to hide behind notwithstanding the terrorists enjoy the freedom in a country against which they hold a grudge? How could these people express such rabid hatred toward a country that has provided them shelter and freedoms?Anonymoyus is an Iraqi woman whose father had been arrested and executed for being a spy. She escaped to Israel from Iraq and eventually moved to the United States. A mother of three whom gave up her prolific garment business in Israel, anonymous and her husband Leo started fresh in the United States. Driven by poverty and desperately needed a job, fate has brought her to an underground research institute that specialized in investigating, researching and scrutinizing Islamic charities and non-profit organizations in the US that function as the terrorist group fronts and have allegedly fund these groups in their Middle Eastern headquarters. The sensitive and clandestine nature of the job requires the author to remain anonymous and infiltrate into numerous Islamic briefings, meetings, conferences, and rabid rallies. In doing so, she not only is able to identify such dangerous terrorist organizations, she also becomes an antiterrorism expert in tracing to the root, trimming to the bone, and nailing to the core those who headed such organizations and the means with which they bring mujahideens into the United States and the cunning routes through which money is transferred to fund the groups in the Middle East. The book fearlessly and unreservedly unravels fascinating and shocking information on how the lack of sharing information, the lack of communication between INS, FBI, and CIA provide a loophole for the burgeoning decoy of terrorism. The main trouble with such bureaucracy is that it contains too many checks and balances, whether to restrain leak of intelligence or protect confidentiality. It is somewhat surprising that anything is ever decided. The inflexibility has disastrous consequences (manifest in the 1993 World Trade bombing followed by the 9-11 all-out-war attack) as it becomes salient that security bureaus are incapable of responding adequately to the challenges and threats the country faces. More shocking is the fact that INS is not aware of the terrorists (and their real identities) who might be entering the country, as the immigration agency does not gather intelligence information. To make matter worse, the FBI and CIA, while gather up a voluminous amount of documents and intelligence, do not share such information with the INS. Anonymous depicts the FBI (and its policy) as being imbecile as it refuses to act before the crime is committed. As far as six years prior to the 9-11 attack, mujahideens who were apprehended in both the United States and the Philippines (where the terrorists planned to assassinate the Pope and blow up several jetliners over the Pacific Oceans) brought manuals detailing in hijacking, bombing, and assassinating techniques. The FBI has failed to properly use the information that could have been used to stop the murderers before they embarked on their deadly mission. What is scarier is that Usama Bin Laden has long conceived the idea of hijacking planes and crash them into the buildings, why are such documents and information overlooked? As anonymous deepens her investigation, it doesn't surprise me that some of the largest charity organizations are working fronts and de facto financial arm for the Hamas in the United States. Leaders of such organizations are no freaks but university professors and scholars who had received an education outside of their homelands. These are supporters and preachers of barbaric suicide attacks and martyrdom. They invoke Allah's curse on the "tyrannical" Americans and who call for jihad and incite their worshippers to support the fight against the US and all Jews. Therefore, intelligence agencies make a huge mistake in disbelieving the Islamic fundamentalism is significant threat to the US and not following such leaders. Anonymous also makes a point that following Timothy McVeigh's indictment of the Oklahoma bombing, the FBI makes a bad move in dismissing the idea that the terrorists will strike home. What naivete. Terrorist Hunter is a book that nobody should miss. The anonymous author has written an edge-of-the-seat, tell-it-all account of the surreptitious and deceitful functioning of the most dangerous organizations in the United States. Practices of such organizations are nothing but minatory and sinister. In writing this memoir, the author has not only risked her life but those of her children and family. In exposing the identities of the terrorists and their roots, the book also serves as a wake-up call to the intelligence agencies and call for a collaboration of these agencies to fight terrorism. 4.2 stars.
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Summary: Rememory of Terrorist Hunting
Review: Mostly, this book is getting good reviews and that is good. But I'd like to dispute the few who are writing bad reviews. One mentioned that it's hard to read. Yes, it is, but those of you who are familiar with Toni Morrison's style of rememory writing will have a leg up on appreciating this style. And not only that, it helps to confuse anyone trying to figure out who she is. :-)
Another good thing is being a woman is an attention grabber. Most books of this sort tend to be written by men. It's unusual to find a woman doing this type of thing, much less writing about it. If she can get even one more person to read and learn just how widespread terrorists really are, she has done what she set out to do. Which leads me to the second criticism I wanted to address. I would think fighting the people who murdered my father a much more fitting tribute than sitting around complaining about it. And who in their right mind thinks there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism?
Anonymous is a very brave and determined woman. She deserves to be protected and she deserves to be listened to. The only thing is, I guess she has not heard of J Edgar, because it seems like not much has changed since his days and I'm surprised she didn't mention it.
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Summary: Terrorist Hunter : The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who We
Review: The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America's leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism expert, a young woman, who, in disguise, has penetrated front groups of anti-American terrorist organizations operating in this country. In this edge-of-the-seat memoir, she chronicles her escape from Iraq via Iran to Israel, following a great tragedy that befell her family at the hands of Saddam Hussein. She also details how she became involved in intelligence gathering for the United States, her adoptive country, while working for an antiterrorism group. With her unique insights into how terrorist groups veil their true operations by various means, she was able to infiltrate and identify dangerous terrorist organizations and entities working undetected in the United States. Terrorist Hunter provides fascinating and shocking information on how federal agencies, chiefly the FBI and the State Depart-ment, repeatedly ignored or mishandled important information she provided. She reveals her role in exposing terrorist supporters who the White House considered to be friends, in preventing the government from funding terrorist activities, and in the deportation of terrorists and their supporters. She also reveals how she discovered a billion-dollar scheme that rich Saudi Arabians set up to filter money to terrorist groups, through charities and businesses in the United States -- information that the FBI sat on for years, until after 9-11.
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Summary: VERY IMPORTANT READ!!!!!
Review: This book is a must read for every American who wants to stop terrorism on our shores. I know for a fact that the information contained in this book is true. Some reviewers on this page have erroneously claimed the author is a fake or has stolen her info from Emerson and Loftus. On the contrary, she's very real--she's the source of their information and is an important intelligence source for several U.S. law enforcement agencies fighting the war on terror.
Two important, key points of information contained in the book are: 1) The Terrorist Hunter warned the U.S. government, at the highest levels, of the domestic terrorist threat and documented her infiltration of domestic Muslim "charities" that were really terrorist funding mechanisms, but the U.S. government ignored her until after 9-11; and 2) The Terrorist Hunter, to this day, encounters difficulty getting the FBI to pounce on her information and the villanous organizations funding terrorism. However, U.S. Customs, now the Customs Investigations portion of BICE (the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), is a great organization, moving swiftly and effectively in response to the Terrorist Hunter's information, to squelch the domestic funders of terrorism.
Although meant as a biography, The Terrorist Hunter is an important read for those of us familiar with the inside scoop on the indictment of Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian and why it took so long for our government to charge him--pro-Saudi politics which prolonged Al-Arian's life of freedom in the U.S., and which cost the lives of Alisa Flatow and Islamic Jihad's other American (and Israeli) victims.
The only question that remains is why the Saudi-funded charities (at 555 Grove Street, detailed in this book) which funded Al-Arian, Al-Quaida, Bush Advisor/NRA Board Member Grover Norquist's Islamic Institute, and other evil forces behind terror, remain open for business. When they are finally shut down, we will have the Terrorist Hunter to thank. That they are still open for business shows the Terrorist Hunter's advice is still not heeded by too much of our government.
Finally, the Terrorist Hunter's story of humiliation and the respective public execution and brutal murder of her father, grandmother, and other family members (merely because they were Jews) by the Iraqi government is not unique or past history. It is important to remember that this is regular practice for the remaining few Jews, Christians, and moderate Muslims in most Islamic and Arab states, today.
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Summary: A brave and valuable resource in the war on terrorism
Review: Anonymous grew up as an Iraqi Jew. She is fluent in the language and culture of the Islamic terrorists while still having the perspective of a civilized supporter of democracy and freedom. She grew up in Iraq, escaped with the remains of her family to Israel, and settled in the United States. She continues to apply her background and incisive intelligence to understanding, explaining and forecasting the actions of terrorists. You can see how difficult that is by viewing an Islamic extremist website. You probably cannot read a single word or even understand a single letter of the alphabet. Imagine yourself at one of the frequent Islamic extremist meetings held at hotels and public places in the U.S.A. You will probably not understand a word since they will almost all be in Arabic. Anonymous is a brave and valuable resource in the war on terror. User her.
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Summary: ONLY AVAILABLE IN US - RIDICULOUS !!!!!
Review: Dear citizens of the US, do you know that this book is not allowed to be sold outside the US? Do you know that since i read it in october last year i am trying hard to get a copy of this book and that it is not available in any bookstore in Europe. Do you also know that this book will not be delivered outside Europe by any of the internet bookshops INCLUDING Amazone.com One word - one message - like the author of the book already description - its pretty much messed up over there - RIDICULOUS!! this form of protectionism !!
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Summary: Born a Jewish Iraqui, Living as a 100% patriotic American
Review: While the beginning of the book is all about the author and her early life, the portrait of terror she paints in the rest of the book reaches all over the globe. Yes, she takes a lot of credit, and is free with criticism of different fed agencies, she is very generous in doling out praise and credit where warranted. That terror networks are interlinked shouldn't be a surprise, but it is. That money is being laundered to help attain the goals of terrorists is something we as a country have just recently become aware of, sadly enough. If nothing else, this book reaffirms my concern that the USA needs to investigate Saudi Arabia's role in this. While being our 'friend', they are drawing a knife across our throats, as amply described in detail in this book.
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Summary: RUDE AWAKENING
Review: Amazing read, focused and filled with details of the incredible! Terror can be put down, with simple, yet efficent research....
A riveting book, I highly recommend.
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Summary: Food for Thought
Review: The moral of this book is; that a civilian with intimate familiarity with the culture can ferret out clues better than numerous Government trained anti-terrorist agents can. The author researched public documentation to provide evidence of the money trail from some quasi-charities to fund Islamic terrorist groups. The author's point is that there is plenty of information that can be gleaned from public records that is not being noticed. If the info. was effectively utilized, it would provide greater protection by shutting off a source of funding. The author was originally a young girl from an Iraqi Jewish family, whose father was accused on spying for Israel and executed. Her family fled Iraq, and she eventually made her way to New York City. The author's knowledge of Arabic, chutzpah in infiltrating Islamic fundraisers and extensively researching public records has resulted in a vast database. One constant theme throughout the latter half of the book is her low esteem of the anti-terrorist measures being taken by the U.S. government. The author's main target is the FBI, which is portrayed as being inept. One hopes the author is mistaken, but since the U.S government does not shed any light on this, it is a one-sided view, but a view supported by many examples of what appear to be mistakes and oversights.
A very interesting book and an easy read that also provides food for thought.
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Summary: amazing, astonishing, breathtaking!!!
Review: This is by far the best book I have read in ages. I won't give you out anything of the story, you have to discover it for yourself. For one, this book contains phenomenal information, it would be a shame to bluntly give it out. Plus your perception of the book will vary according to your existing knowledge of middle-eastern and intern affairs.
What I can tell you though is that as much as I was prepared to read anything about terrorism and islamic radicals, I was soooo surprised, so off my feet many times during the lecture.
No matter what, you will learn A LOT through the life of this woman, and see the world under another perspective.
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