Muslim History Molds Obama Choices for Future

Islam is the religion of about one billion people and is a rapidly growing faith, particularly in Africa but also elsewhere in the world. The United States, for example, boasts almost a million converts to Islam (plus an even larger number of Muslim immigrants). The last of the three major Middle Eastern monotheisms, Muslims believe that their faith improves on the earlier ones. In their telling, Judaism and Christianity are but defective variants of Islam, which is God's final, perfect religion. 

If you go back far in history...

Adopting the world's clearly false, politically correct (PC) view of the place of the Crusades in history, Muslims have claimed the First Crusades were where the East first met the West, as if the Christians had invented the concept of a holy war against them. However, in examining the timing of many epoch events from 2 A.D. to 1099 A.D., sequentially prior to the First Crusades, they disprove that claim entirely. 

East and West had been fighting for at least 1,500 years before the first Crusade. The Romans established by bloody military conquest colonies in Mesopotamia, northwestern Arabia, and Assyria in the second century A.D. The Greek, Alexander the Great, attempted to conquer all of Asia, as far as India, in the fourth century B.C.  The Persians invaded Europe in an attempt to conquer the Greeks in the fifth century B.C.

In 624 A.D., Mohammed was a merchant in Arabia who had led a raid for booty and plunder against a Meccan caravan, killing 70 Meccans for mere material gain.

Between 630 A.D. and the death of Mohammed in 632 A.D., Muslims -- on at least one occasion led by Mohammed -- had conquered the bulk of western Arabia and southern Palestine through approximately a dozen separate invasions and bloody conquests. These conquests were in large part their own "Holy wars."

In 632 A.D., after Mohammed's death, the new Muslim caliph, Abu Bakr, launched Islam through invasion and war into almost 1,500 years of continual imperialist, colonialist, bloody conquest and subjugation of others, a role Islam continues to this very day.

From 632 A.D. to 661 A.D., Muslim conquests of the Levant, Christians suffered from the murderous invasions of Muslim conquerors who killed tens of thousands of Christians through four-and-one-half centuries of Muslim imperialist, colonialist conquest, made slaves and eunuchs of Christians for the pleasure of the caliphs, burned down or sacked the holiest churches in Christendom, robbed and killed thousands of Christians on holy pilgrimage, brutally sacked and pillaged Jerusalem, and pillaged the countryside of Israel.

In 732 AD the Muslim Army which was moving on Paris was defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martel. 

In 1096–1099, the First Crusade started as a widespread pilgrimage (France and Germany) and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661). The Crusaders ultimately won resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099 AD. The murderous and pillaging acts of the Crusaders when they entered Jerusalem were barbaric, unchristian, and evil. This is particularly so as those acts were carried on in the name of a religion of peace, love, and forgiveness to free the people of the Holy Land from their brutal masters and reclaim Christianity's holiest places for free Christian worship. Hatred had spurred the battles on as retributions were meted out in the victorious aftermath of the Crusades. Again, the bloody history of Islamic-Christian clashes did not end there; only to be fought in another day.

It illustrated the bitter divide between the Muslims against Christians and Jews which continues on with the violent actions of Muslims in the twenty-first century to regain their territorial claims with the annilation of Jerusalem Jews and establishment of a Muslim Palestinian State.

In 1571 AD the Muslim Army/Navy attacked southern Europe in the Battle of Le Panto and was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1683 AD the Turkish Muslim Army, attacked Eastern Europe and was finally defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian Armies.

This fighting has been going on over 1,400 years. Most U.S. politicians don't even know about history which makes them clueless to understand the upcoming Muslim Caliphate in the Middle East!

On Infidels - Non-Believers...

Christianity would be non-existent if those battles had not been won; we would be all speaking Arabic.

Judaism certainly would have been annihilated... And let us not forget that Hitler was an admirer of Islam and that the Mufti of Jerusalem was Hitler's guest in Berlin who raised Bosnian Muslim SS Divisions: the 13th and 21st Waffen SS Divisions killing Jews, Russians, Gypsies, and any other types of 'subhumans'.

Reflecting..

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back. These Muslim atrocities are from recent history. ...over the past fifty years to present.

Do you remember?... 

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Muslim. In 1989, he told interviewer David Frost, "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians." Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the United States stemming from the Arab–Israeli conflict in the Middle East.

2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslims.

3. In 1972, a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach, it was blown up shortly after landing by Muslims.

4. In 1973, a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome, with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslims.

5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over and 52 hostages taken 444 days by Muslims.
 

6. In the 1980's, Americans kidnapped with 25 hostages taken, two killed, in Lebanon by Muslims.

7. In 1983, Beirut US Marine barracks was blown up, 241 soldiers killed by Muslims.

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslims.

9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslims.

10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, Scotland bombing) was a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit  was bombed by Muslims killing all 259 passengers and crew on board.

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was first bombed with 6 killed, 100 wounded by Muslims.

12. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed with 258 killed and 5,000 injured by Muslims.

13. In 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers who killed 17 sailors, while in port in Aden, Yemen for refueling. The attack was attributed to al Qaeda Muslims and foreshadowed the attack on the U.S. less than one year later on September 11, 2001.

14. In 2001, on 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. About 3,000 people were killed by Muslims.

15. In 2002, the United States began a war in Afghanistan against al Queda and as of June 2014  up to 2,164 soldiers have been killed by Muslim terrorists.

16. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in Afghanistan by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Muslim.

17. In 2012, on 9/11/12, U.S. Benghazi diplomatic mission was attacked and four Americans killed including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Information Mgt. Officer Sean Smith, security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty by Muslim terrorists. 

18. In 2013, Boston Marathon Bombing 4 Innocent people including a child killed, 264 injured by Muslims. 

The Obama 'Cut and Run' Doctrine has doomed the Middle East to war since theObama confers with Sec of State Hillary Clinton. Caliphate is now on the march, has not relented or been apologetic for any overt aggressions in the Middle Eastern region. Talking about peace is now over and that was all that Obama had anyway in his military arsenal after his Arab Spring 'feel-good' strategies for kumbaya moments. Now that U.S. foreign policy is in a hapless position, like Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind', Obama says, "I'll think about that Tomorrow....After all, Tomorrow is another Day!" and so Obama has turned his attentions homeward ignoring any further military incursions abroad.

Obama clearly explains his Egyptian foreign policies.Here in the United States our major national policies are in flux due to those efforts being diverted to domestic issues by the Obama administration. Now American politics to bolster the outgoing Obama legacy is taking precedence over our defense, safety and well-being of the country. As an outgoing President he is looking for any disparate policy wins to seal his record accomplishments as he comes down to the finish line--it looks pretty slim too; and he knows it.

So Muslim History shapes Obama's future just like Jimmy Carter suffering under the Iran Hostage Crisis, except this time the President will not be alone.

Hillary Clinton, the upcoming Democrat Presidential candidate, was absolutely complicit in crafting major Obama foreign policies and international relations while overseeing his failed affairs as U.S. Secretary of State--not exactly a steller record to stand on--it's really toxic political poison! 

Obama - Rubik's Sub-Par "Rube" Cube

Barack Obama - The "Child-in-Chief" of World Politics

Rubiks Cube - sub-cube piecesThe historical U.S. political and military foreign policies enacted in the Near, Middle and Far east fit together like sub-cubes in a mystical ‘Rubik’s Cube’ that are puzzled over by many history scholars, generals, and armchair strategists as a subject of contentious analysis, opinion and debate. They have searched these U.S. policies for answers about how United States diplomacy and actions have influenced these areas since early as President Woodrow Wilson after WW1, 1919. One has to ask, "What does all this mean to the U.S. policies going forward in the 21st Century? - We don't need another 'Rube", a country bumpkin green amateur, we have to get an EXPERIENCED Leader!

Vietnam Background History. ["As World War One came to a close in 1919, a young Vietnamese patriot named Nguyen That Thanh arrived in 1920 during the Paris Peace Conference to speak with the powerful men negotiating the terms for peace. On behalf of his people living within the French empire in Indochina, Thanh sought to lobby the Western leaders for greater rights. He hoped to take American President Woodrow Wilson up on his promise of "self-determination," the principle of national sovereignty, and free Vietnam from colonial rule. But Thanh, like many other advocates of colonial independence who descended upon the Paris peace talks, discovered that the pledge was too good to be true. The British and the French refused to enforce self-rule for their colonies, and despite Thanh's direct appeal to President Wilson, the three powers ultimately ignored the young Vietnamese nationalist.

"In the following years, Thanh, disillusioned by the Western democratic process, pursued new and more radical solutions to imperial rule in his country. He had been deeply impressed by the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and by the ability of the Bolsheviks to rally support among the Soviet masses. So in the 1920s, while still in France, he joined the Communist Party. With the adopted name 'Ho Chi Minh,' meaning 'enlightened one,' he planned to take his teachings home to Vietnam to awaken his own people, to unite and train them, and to lead them in their own revolution."]

First elected as U.S. President in 1913, this former President of Princeton University was seen as a boorish, intellectual snob who highly regarded his own opinions as to know best for all. He vainly coveted a 'pince-nez' or 'pinched nose' eye glasses that literally pinch the bridge of the nose with no hinged arms which emphasized his erudition, a 'learned, scholarly professorial' image.  (See our Wilson's Legacy to Obama Presidency to read about a very terminally egocentric man.)

A liberal Progressive Democrat Politician, President Woodrow Wilson used the slogan “He kept U.S. out of war” effectively in his 1916 reelection bid to win in March, 1917. However, politically realizing the treasures in spoils and booty to divide up from World War One, a mere one month later in April, 1917, just after he won an election on “He kept U.S. out of war” slogan, Wilson hastily jumped into war during the remaining year or so, with only nineteen months left, before the Germans signing the Armistice of  Compiègne in France in November, 1918.

Woodrow Wilson since 1914 had deliberately kept the American army near its paltry peacetime size as a roundabout way to maintain his slogan, "He kept U.S. out of war", to defeat the interventionists; after all, with a standing army of just over 120,000 soldiers, about one-twentieth the size of any of the major European powers, what could the U.S. possibly contribute to the war effort? Most estimates were that it would be up to a year before an American army, now slated to grow to well over one million, might contribute to the European battlefield in any significant way.

In Woodrow Wilson's rush to join the war effort he also foolishly misjudged the time to enlist civilians and supply arms while tragically miscalculating the unintended loss of lives. Our young, inexperienced civilian military rookies were trained in hastily drawn combat exercises and so before they even entered the war front it cost the U.S. many lives needlessly before soldiers were actually lost in real combat in the trenches. Boy, that intellectual Princeton President sure knew how to lecture about sociology and political science theories, just not much in the actual practicalities and applications, just ask those dead young soldiers.

In January, 1919 the Paris Peace Conference convened with the "Big Four." They were the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, where prior to Wilson's arrival in Europe, no American president had ever visited Europe while in office; the Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Lloyd George; the Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau; and the Prime Minister of Italy, Vittorio Orlando. They met together informally 145 times and made all the major decisions, which in turn were ratified by the others.

Woodrow Wilson's narcissist goal was his presidential legacy for the 'League of Nations' for global control of the actions of countries and people. He had support by another 'liberal thinker", David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Britain (1916-22), who was a key figure in Parliament for passing the modern 'British welfare state' reforms. Consequently, the welfare program's costly aftermath split up his coalition of more Conservatives than his own Liberals, a key factor in the decline of the Liberal Party as a serious political force thereafter. After 1922 he was a marginalized and widely mistrusted figure in Britain.

By November, 1919 in the U.S., the League of Nations proved too controversial with its treaties and activities and so the Senate voted to never join or sign any treaties, but instead made separate treaties.

1920 League of Nations inaugural General AssemblyThe Paris Peace Conference came to an end in January, 1920 with the inaugural General Assembly of the League of Nations to vote on five major peace treaties prepared at the Paris Peace Conference, including the most contentious one with results of the 'Treaty of Versailles,' which weakened Germany's military, and required her to pay reparations. Bingo! ...Big pay-off to the allies! It was a natural set-up later for German animosities towards the reparations and humilities suffered leading to the rise of Hitler's Third Reich in 1932.

Some later blame that Wilson had his first stroke in 1920 during tours after tirelessly speaking about the League of Nations. He had two more strokes during his last term in office, 1921. President Wilson died dejected in 1924. The League of Nations lasted only from 1920 to 1935, really an ineffectual body since there was no U.S. participation.

The 1931 League of Nations Meeting - Iranian Delegation.

From left: 1- Abolhassan Hakimi  2- Abdol Hossein Sardari my maternal uncle who was a member of the League of Nations Secretariat  3- My father Anoshiravan Khan Sepahbodi, Iran's Head of Mission at the League of Nations and also Minister of Iran to Bern , Switzerland  4- Abdollah Entezam 6- Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad-Ali Foroughi "Zoka-al-Molk"  7- Mrs. Hakimi wife of Abolhassan Hakimi  8- Movassagh-al-Dowleh Khajeh Nouri. In the middle with overcoat and hat in hand between H.E. Foroughi and my father is H.E. Mr. Abbasgohli Khan Gharib, "Motarjomalmalek".

The century from 1912 to 2011 has demonstrated for anybody whose eyes are open the complete and absolute failure of "progressivism" and its cousins socialism and communism. Unfortunately, Progressives have continued to push their ideas and agendas, despite the fact that things never happen the way progressives claim that they will. In fact, Barack Obama is the epitome of the failed progressive movement.

So history repeats itself as Obama attempts to convene what amounts to a publicity-held tribunal resurrecting his own legacy to alter its fate in his final term of office as a U.S. foreign policy maker in the Iranian Nuclear talks, Obama still remains a dismal loser. I guess the Iranians will get into another picture, except at the United Nations this time, in 2013 or 82 years later--Some things never change except nuclear bombs.

Obama now needs his 'big score' internationally working through the 'United Nations'. The Middle east tensions, especially between Israel and Iran, are almost Biblical if not epochal in their historical importance to maintaining peace in this diversely populated region. And apparently no one is buying any of the manure that Obama is spreading in the negotiations because he has no conceptions or clues on who and what the dynamics are that exist. Alas, Obama needs those original ghost writers who exhumed his past from his birth through early adulthood to reconstruct and build their story in a book like 'Dreams from my Father.'

In writing Presidential histories, which include legacies, historians have to be careful about their facts. Gordon Goldstein's book, 'Lessons in Disaster', which is a favorite Vietnam book for the Obama White House. It recycles past caricatures of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem as a corrupt and ineffective autocrat and ignores the difficulties within an authoritarian society at war. This blindsided political biased portrayal clouds anyone from arriving at a balanced judgement of the real history--it simply ain't so, unless such rendering leads the reader to assume that the Vietnam War was unwinnable as liberals, like Obama, who cling to this historical rewrite scenario to defend their aversion to military intervention at all costs.

Americans were puzzled by their defeat in Vietnam. How could the most powerful nation on earth have been defeated by a rag-tag bunch of peasant guerrillas? However, as post-war results came out, a major contributor to the collapse of the South-Vietnamese war effort between 1963 and 1965 was the difficulty for Diem seeing that the majority of Americans believed that part of the answer to South Vietnam’s problems was to make it like the United States. However, American political cure-alls did not suit the Vietnamese cultural landscape and Diem’s very resistance to reform proved that he was not a puppet of the United States as many history books contended. This is where the travesty lies in rewriting history politically instead of factually. I lived during those war years and came to realize the same conclusion early in those many years ago as it finally ended in 1975. The American people's thinking of establishing any U.S. style democracy relied upon their pure folly underlying cultural ignorance of other societies. 

The TroglodytesToday, although our country has achieved more than any others through our Constitutional rule of laws protecting personal and property rights, we must be mindful to respect other countries' sovereignty ...But, as they should respect ours too!--specifically not terrorism or Islamist Jihadism directed towards the U.S. One fact is undeniable after U.S. intervention in Vietnam, Laos, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria. How many countries are not suited for a democracy? Most, and that's not good, because all their indigenous people will remain little educated, poorly fed, meagerly clothed, barely housed, mostly unemployed and deep-rooted in superstitions--truly 'troglodytes.'

So how do freedom seeking people change their societies?

There are no set rules.

"In many Middle Eastern countries, poverty is deep and it is spreading, women lack rights and are denied schooling. Whole societies remain stagnant while the world moves ahead. As long as the Middle East remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment, and violence ready for export," - President George W. Bush.

Dr. Gerard Pince founded in 2001 the World Freedom Academy. He has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Africa for over forty years. His authoritative views were focused through the prism in the world of economics, finance and banking; so no doubt, he became keenly aware of how Islamation was surreptitiously spreading its repercussions throughout the economies of those societies. I have offered Dr. Pince's quite blunt, disturbing observations and conclusions that follow--the truth really smarts!

"Terrorism, fanaticism, Grand corruption, dictatorships, Illegal immigration, proliferation and constant threat for the civilized world--In such a context, it is fruitless to make recommendations. The road to democracy should imply a complete reeducation ( And notably a reform of Islam) similar to the denazification process which was implemented in Germany by the end of World War 2. Such a process had a meaning in Germany because this country was a great civilization. On the contrary, we do not think that the Middle East and North Africa merit endless wars and the losses of brave soldiers."

"Since September 11, 2001, the Free world is at war. The enemy is not only terrorism. Islamism is the enemy. It is new fascist ideology based on hate for freedom and sponsored by the Arab dictatorships.

"Indeed, Islamism is not only seeking to influence one religion or control one region: Islamism is waging war against all the civilizations and not only against the “Jews and Crusaders.”

"According to this core analysis:

• Firstly, we have to neutralize the terrorist network implemented in the democracies, and to overthrow the dictatorships which are the sponsors of this plague.

• Secondly, we must underline that the ultimate solution to Islamism relies on the extent of democracy into the Arab world.

• Thirdly, we need a moral and psychological rearmament in order to fight the flow of disinformation. We have to promote education in order to eradicate obscurantism [preventing enlightenment to facts, being vague] and negative beliefs.

"Clearly, it is sure that we shall win the war on terrorism. It is not sure that we shall succeed in implementing 'Democracy.'--In this case, a containment policy should be appropriate."

 Will Barack Hussein Obama fight Islamism, Moderate or Radical Muslims?

تسخیر لانه جاسوسی امریکا is the movie Argo on steroids!

In Persian: تسخیر لانه جاسوسی امریکا‎, literally the "Conquest of the American Spy Den," but usually translated as the "Occupation of the American Embassy" was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States in which 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution.  President Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that the "United States will not yield to blackmail."  This sure sounds like a line in a script for a 2013 Oscar Best Picture winner!

Ever heard of the Wahabi Islamic Religion? I have and remember when I first heard about it in November, 1979.  Jimmy Carter was in office and it was day three of the Iranian hostage crisis when all Hell broke loose behind the scenes in another country.  It foretold our huge Islamic terror mess we are in today!  ...Oh really?

What some call regular mainstream "Moderate Muslims" as if that modifier means being anything different than "Radical Muslims" then that really would be significant since they would be standing up to protest instead of quietly standing by and watching their Radical Muslim brothers do harm and create tumult in general, but read on.

We hear a lot of qualifying statements about “moderate Muslims” when “radical Islam” is mentioned. Now, certainly, one can imagine that the majority of Muslims, are most likely people who just want to get on with their lives and that in western countries in particular, many keep a low profile and just live their lives with a low current of religiosity. Like people everywhere, they are trying to get through the day, and not start a revolution or ignite a war. Even so, some are sympathetic to radical concerns or issues, even if they are not entirely seized with passion for the cause. That moderate passive attitude feeds the passions of radical Islamics which just encourages them further. 

Other Muslims are completely against radicalism, but stay on the down low and don’t make waves. Then, there are the Muslims who become leaders and actually attempt to impress some kind of moderate change on the current situation within Islam. Many of these high-profile moderates or liberal Muslims don’t get as much press as the radicals, but they do exist, and often they live their lives under threat of death from their co-religionists.

So, ever heard about the origins of Wahabi Islam from Saudi Arabia spreading to the rest of the world?  Apparently, the Saudi royal family has been exporting Wahabi for some time into Europe, Canada and the USA — partially to free themselves from an imminent threat to their own power.

This began with the 1979 siege on Mecca and the royal family by Wahabists and a deal actually forged with the royal Saudi Arabian family. I knew about Wahabi, but I certainly have since learned more about its spread worldwide and the influence of so many radical Imams, even in places like Phoenix, Arizona or San Diego, CA!


You think the Oscar's Best Picture Award for Argo was exciting? Well, they left out a powerfully interesting parallel storyline - read about it below in the book review!

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

by Yaroslav Trofimov

On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times.

Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca’s bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths.

Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan—the United States —for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents.

Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels’ supporters among the kingdom’s most senior clerics.  The Saudi royal family was helping them nurture and export Juhayman’s violent brand of Islam around the world - Wahabi Islam.

This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, pre–Al Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and drawing on hundreds of documents that had been declassified on his request.

Written with the pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The Siege of Mecca reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11, and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.