Full of inaccuracies

Considering the source I'd tend to believe them than those of someone
who gets his news via the mass media.

. For instance, Syria is actually very LOW on the list
of contributors to militant Islam.

Can you substantiate that?


Back in the 1990s, its leader actually
levelled an entire city where it was determined that the Muslim Brotherhood
made its home. The whole city. Granted, the leader did this to ensure his
continuing term in office, but regardless, it worked. This is why al Qaeda
prefers Qatar as a hideout.

Interesting. Al Qaeda hides in the same country that we used as a base
of operations for the Iraqi war? Are we blind or do they just tiptoe
very quietly? I guess they were also very inept for missing the
opportunity to perform terrorist attacks on the nerve center of the
war.


According to people who know these things,

And just how do you determine who actually "knows these things"?

the Saudis need to take drastic measures to establish law & order.

That's rather obvious. They also have to stop the flow of money that
feeds the outer network of support for terrorism.


Naturally, you'll ask for the year these things happened in Syria, the
leader's name and the name of the city which was destroyed, but the book's
at home. You can buy it, though: "Sleeping With the Devil", by Robert Baer,
a retired CIA agent. The subject matter is current through mid-2003.

The problem with books is that anyone can write one. There's no
guarantee that the information contained is either factual or
complete. Nor is the agenda of the author always understood. Most are
either self-serving, or politically motivated, such as Richard Clark's
highly spun recent expose.

It would help to have some verifiable corroborating evidence from
other unconnected sources.

Rush Limbaugh has written several books. Would you absorb his writing
as absolute truth?

Dave