The New Jackals is a 1998 book by Simon Reeve on Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the "militant network" Al-Qaeda. The opening once said the book "warned that the network would launch devastating terrorist attacks," and noted its relevance "following the September 11, 2001 attacks." Both passages are gone; the opening is now a single sentence, and militant survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the book warned of Al-Qaeda's coming terrorist attacks before September 11, 2001, or that it was read in light of those attacks afterward.
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a book by Simon Reeve , published in 1998 .1One of the first books to investigate the topic of Osama bin Laden , Ramzi Yousef and the militant network Al-Qaeda , the book warned that the network would launch devastating terrorist attacks. Classified documents and evidence obtained by Reeve detailed the existence, development and aims of the organisation. The New Jackals was a New York Times and international bestseller. It was described as essential or recommended reading by many newspapers , magazines , government officials and academics around the world, including Newsweek , U.S. The Economist , the Financial Times , The New York Times , Le Monde and Encyclopædia Britannica .2Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States , the book was republished with a new epilogue by Simon Reeve , which assessed the status of Al-Qaeda and warned that the West remained vulnerable to further attacks, possibly from biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction .3
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a book by Simon Reeve . Published in 1998, this New York Times bestseller was the first book on Osama bin Laden , Ramzi Yousef , and Al-Qaeda .Classified documents obtained by the author detailed the existence, development, and aims of al Qaeda.According to The New Jackals , a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the Afghan War of 1980s, later dominated international terrorism .Author Simon Reeve warned that many of these men, known as the ‘Afghan Arabs’, became the core of al Qaeda.Reeve states these men were a new breed of terrorist, militants with no restrictions on mass killing.The New Jackals concluded that by 1988, the world was entering a new age of apocalyptic terrorism; Reeve predicted al Qaeda would launch massive attacks on Western targets. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States , the book was republished with a new epilogue , which warns the West remains vulnerable to further attacks, possibly from biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction .
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a book by Simon Reeve .
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a 1998 book by Simon Reeve .
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Book by Simon Reeve The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a 1998 book by Simon Reeve .
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