Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror
ISBN: 9780773574885
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Terrorism -- Finance; Bin Laden Osama 1957–; War on Terrorism 2001–;

In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror - as based on myth and misinformation. Satanic Purses examines how misguided notions about the structure and financing of terrorist groups have diverted attention from more useful measures, and perpetuated the "War on Terror."

Historian, criminologist, and political economist, R.T. Naylor is professor of economics at McGill University where his main fields of research are black markets, smuggling, and international financial crime. He is the author of many books including Hot M

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