Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden.

During his 40-year career, award-winning journalist Peter Taylor has come face-to-face with some of the world's most notorious terrorists. In 1972 he was sent to Northern Ireland to report on 'Bloody Sunday' and in the aftermath of 9/11, he focused on Al Qaeda, breaking stories in the period up to the July bombings and the plot to blow up passenger planes mid-Atlantic.

In Talking to Terrorists Taylor wrestles with a range of complex questions: What are terrorists like? What motivates them? Should governments talk to them? When does interrogation become torture? In this journey from Northern Ireland's Bogside to the notorious Guantanamo Bay, he uncovers this deadly phenomenon, unavoidably at the centre of our lives.

Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and in the aftermath of the death of Osama Bin Laden, Talking to Terrorists is controversial, revelatory and an unquestionably important book for our times.

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Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden.

During his 40-year career, award-winning journalist Peter Taylor has come face-to-face with some of the world's most notorious terrorists. In 1972 he was sent to Northern Ireland to report on 'Bloody Sunday' and in the aftermath of 9/11, he focused on Al Qaeda, breaking stories in the period up to the July bombings and the plot to blow up passenger planes mid-Atlantic.

In Talking to Terrorists Taylor wrestles with a range of complex questions: What are terrorists like? What motivates them? Should governments talk to them? When does interrogation become torture? In this journey from Northern Ireland's Bogside to the notorious Guantanamo Bay, he uncovers this deadly phenomenon, unavoidably at the centre of our lives.

Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and in the aftermath of the death of Osama Bin Laden, Talking to Terrorists is controversial, revelatory and an unquestionably important book for our times.

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Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

by Peter Taylor
Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy

by Peter Taylor

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Overview

A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden.

During his 40-year career, award-winning journalist Peter Taylor has come face-to-face with some of the world's most notorious terrorists. In 1972 he was sent to Northern Ireland to report on 'Bloody Sunday' and in the aftermath of 9/11, he focused on Al Qaeda, breaking stories in the period up to the July bombings and the plot to blow up passenger planes mid-Atlantic.

In Talking to Terrorists Taylor wrestles with a range of complex questions: What are terrorists like? What motivates them? Should governments talk to them? When does interrogation become torture? In this journey from Northern Ireland's Bogside to the notorious Guantanamo Bay, he uncovers this deadly phenomenon, unavoidably at the centre of our lives.

Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and in the aftermath of the death of Osama Bin Laden, Talking to Terrorists is controversial, revelatory and an unquestionably important book for our times.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780007325535
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 09/01/2011
Edition description: UK ed.
Pages: 402
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xiii

Introduction: Recognising Reality xv

1 Talking to the IRA 1

2 From the IRA to Al Qaeda 49

3 Talking to Hijack Victims 62

4 Talking to the Interrogators 74

5 Talking to a Convicted Terrorist 93

6 Anatomy of a Sleeper Cell 112

7 One Morning in September 132

8 A Warning Not Heeded 138

9 Bombs on Bali 154

10 Understanding the 'New' Al Qaeda 175

11 Terror on the Ground 193

12 Clean Skins 211

13 Terror in the Skies 231

14 Jihad.com 246

15 Talking to the Victims of Torture 268

16 Journey to the Dark Side 287

Acknowledgements 315

Notes 317

Bibliography 329

Index 333

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