STEVEN EMERSON'S books about
the Middle East and the Attack on America

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American Jihad
Author: Steven Emerson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
February 2002

>From the Publisher
The United States government is actively monitoring terrorist cells
affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in eleven cities, from
Florida to Boston to Denver to Houston. But al Qaeda is hardly our only
threat. Hamas, formed in 1987, was run by top Palestinian officials in
America from its earliest days, and has tentacles in Texas, California, New
Jersey, Virginia, and Illinois. The University of South Florida was
infiltrated by the infamous organization known as Palestinian Islamic
Jihad -- one of its faculty members even left the country to take that
group's top leadership role after his predecessor was assassinated.
Hizballah has been tied to cells in North Carolina and Michigan, from which
it drew funds and attempted to procure military equipment.

In short, September 11, 2001, was hardly an isolated or unpredictable event.
The United States has become home to hundreds and probably thousands of
terrorists, and it has become a central node in their international
networks. Steven Emerson, hailed as "the nation's leading expert on Islamist
terrorism," has been working full-time since 1993 to track the spread of
terrorist networks to our shores, even at great personal risk. In 1995, not
long after the release of his PBS documentary "Jihad in America," he was
informed by federal officials that a South African Islamist death squad had
been dispatched after him, and told that he should leave his home
immediately. Since then he has not maintained a home address, though he has
continued to write and testify under his own name. With the help of a staff
of researchers he has followed the terrorists' monetary sources, monitored
their attacks and plans, exposed their ties to charitable foundations, and
assisted a variety of government agencies in the battle against them. He has
obtained videotaped evidence of terrorist training camps and conferences,
and tracked the international connections of American operatives to over a
dozen organizations.

In American Jihad Emerson reveals the full story that only he knows. This is
a frightening and crucial book for anyone who needs to understand the threat
within our borders.

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The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection
Author: Steven Emerson
Publisher: Watts Franklin
April 1985

Synopsis
The author seeks to show "that Saudi petrodollars, or, rather, American
greed for Arab oil money, may be outdistancing the voting power of Jewish
constituencies in a struggle for influence among corporate, institutional,
and individual decision makers in America. Our predilection for making a
fast buck, he says, has resulted in Saudi Arabia's status as the sixth
largest importer of American goods." (Libr J) Bibliography. Index.

>From the Critics
>From Samuel McCracken - Commentary
{What the author sees as the connection between the U.S. and Saudi Arabiais}
set forth with considerable detail and only slight journalistic melodramaby
Steven Emerson, who in this book traces with precision the activities of
a lobby that is considerably more active and in important ways more
effective than the better-known Israeli lobby. {The Israeli and Saudi}
lobbies
are admittedly identical in their ultimate focus: the survival of Israel. It
is just that the one supports it, while the other opposes it. We know all
about how the one operates; thanks to Steven Emerson, we may begin to
understand the other.

>From Hoyt Purvis - The New York Times Book Review
The author paints with a very broad brush, suggesting that anyone even
remotely connected to the Saudis has somehow become part of a vast network
seeking to redirect American foreign policy. Those involved range from such
improbables as former Senator Jacob Javits . . . to a long-since bankrupt
Arkansas bus manufacturer. . . . Although Mr. Emerson deals with important
issues and raises legitimate problems, in effect, he questions the integrity
and motives ofnearly everyone who favored the arms sales and/or who supports
good relationswith Saudi Arabia. But isn't it just possible that many of
those in and out of Government who back such policies genuinely and
unselfishly believe that those actions are in the national interests of the
United States?

>From Saul Friedman - Columbia Journalism Review
{The author} has put together a thorough, excellent, even powerful account
of the Saudi lobby as it operates here and elsewhere in the world. . . .
But Emerson's argument falters when he suggests, as he does throughout the
book, that Saudi money and influence are behind the views of those who are
critical of Israel or of official U.S. policies toward Israel, or even
behind the policies themselves.

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Secret Warriors:
Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era
Author: Steven Emerson
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
April 1988

Synopsis
Emerson alleges that the Pentagon, "disgusted at the failure of the 1980
Iran hostage rescue attempt, decided it could no longer trust the
capabilities of the CIA and instead set up a 'miniature CIA' within its own
walls. With names like Delta, Yellow Fruit, Seaspray, Task Force 160, Quick
Reaction Team, the Intelligence Support Activity and the Special Operations
Division, {Emerson suggests}, its clandestine units fanned out around the
globe, gathering intelligence and conducting undercover operations, often
without Congress ever knowing. . . . {According to Emerson, these groups}
infiltrated the home of the leader of Panama, flew espionage planes over El
Salvador, spied on Soviet officials in Europe, {and} drew up secret plans to
invade Nicaragua." (Publisher's note) Glossary. Index.

>From the Critics
>From Library Journal
$17.95. military studies In 1964, David Wise and Thomas B. Ross published
The Invisible Government , detailing for the first time the inside doings of
the CIA. Since then, Americans have become accustomed to the flood of
exposes about the depth of America's secret governmentall in the name of
national security and anti-Communism. This timely new book, by an editor at
U.S. News & World Report, describes the covert ``black'' operatons carried
out by the military, as distinct from the CIA or the Iran-contra NSC gang.
Emerson accepts the need for covert action, but his stranger-than-fiction
exposure of the Pentagon's underside makes one wonder. On the basis of
interviews and unpublished documents, Emerson says the secret government is
alive and well. For lay readers and specialists. H. Steck, SUNY Coll. at
Cortland

>From Thomas Powers - The New York Times Book Review
{This} is a reporter's book, full of stories and colorful characters but
short on analysis. Mr. Emerson has no quarrel with official insistence that
the country 'desperately needs a special operations capacity' but nowhere
suggests what the country needs this capacity for. . . . Among the grace
notes of Mr. Emerson's fine book are many small, well-told stories, like the
one about two members of the Army's supersecret Intelligence Support
Activity on a mission in Lebanon. . . . When the two men were stopped at a
road checkpoint manned by Syrian Army regulars, . . . they knew they were in
the deepest sort of trouble. Their papers identified them as American
military men and neither spoke Arabic. But one of them . . . managed to
squeak them through by shouting backin {Vietnamese}. . . . There you have
it--two American 'secret warriors,' trying to spy out somebody else's
country with the wrong language, picked up in the last war, already lost.

>From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
Emerson describes how the Pentagon set up its own clandestine ``mini-CIA''
following the bungled attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran in 1980. A leak
in 1983 led to a widespread investigation by certain Army officials and the
Justice Department, resulting in secret court-martials and the conviction of
several key Army officers who had ``decided they knew what was best for the
country.'' More recently, some of the original players participated in a
reincarnation of the scheme called ``Enterprise,'' according to Emerson (The
American House of Saud). Part business empire, part military-intelligence
operation under late CIA director William Casey and National Security
Council staffer Oliver North, the Enterprise operation reportedly provided a
framework for retired Air Force Gen. Richard Secord and Iranian-born
businessman Albert Hakim to control elements of U.S. foreign policy while
making huge profits. Emerson focuses on what he sees as the central paradox
of covert operations: they are necessary, but they tend to spin out of
control. First serial to U.S. News & World Report. (April)

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Lights out at Doe: How Reagan Has Put America in the Dark about Energy
Authors: Judy Green, John Shepard and Steven Emerson
Publisher: Public Citizen, Incorporated
November 1984

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