Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror

by R.T. Naylor

Book Overview

Although there has been criticism of some aspects of the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11,Satanic Pursestakes the story much further. In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor exposes the official story, and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror, as based on myth, misinformation, and even deliberate disinformation - all of it premised on misguided notions about the nature of terrorist financing and the structure and organization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773531505
• ISBN13: 9780773531505
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Marketing Terror

"Satanic Purses" is the story of an administration that has marketed fear to the American people and the world for the purpose of enhancing the bottom line of multi-national corporations. It is a chronicle of a U.S. Congress gone A.W.O.L, oblivious to their declared oath of office and Constitutional duties. In this meticulously researched work, R.T. Naylor guides the reader through the labyrinthine if not incestuous relationship between the media, military contractors and the implementation of government policy. Many heretofore assumptions about Islam, terror, and manufactured hobgloblins and or heroes are dispelled and exposed. Without question, "Satanic Purses" is the clarion call for the American public and their represntatives in Congress to "take back the Republic" before it is too late. This book boasts all the intrigue, bloodlettting, deceit, artifice, fabrications, provocations, predudice, disinformation, and government fraud and abuse of a Robert Ludlum thriller. But sadly it is all too real. Bruce G. Richardson Author: "Afghanistan, Ending the Reign of Soviet terror."

"Satanic Purses" is a thoroughly 'reader friendly' presentation

R.T. Nayor is an expert on money laundering, the underground economy, and terrorism. In "Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, And Misinformation In The War On Terror" he applies his extensive experience and expertise to debunk commonly held myths about how Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaidah, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others finance their operations. Misinformation, propaganda, misconceptions, and flawed intelligence are to be found in every war, but the War On Terrorism has been particularly plagued with untruths, lies, mistakes, misunderstandings, governmental manipulation, and more. Critically important reading for policy makers, academia, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in understanding the financial issues of terrorism, "Satanic Purses" is a thoroughly 'reader friendly' presentation that will go far in correcting the confusion and misrepresentations that have evolved over the past six years with respect to the on-going global terrorist war with respect to the finances of both stateless and state-sponsored terrorist groups.

Mythologizing bin Laden and Other American Lies

Naylor's work is essential reading for anyone with a brain that refuses to accept the Bush/Fox/neocon poppycock that passes for "truth" in the now disgraced American media. He convincingly makes the case that bin Laden (who for some reason is rarely mentioned anymore, despite the fact he supposedly was the 9-11 "mastermind") is now used by everyone and their brother in order to solicit US funds and/or justification for an agenda. Worse, the so-caled security-justice apparatus in this country has been corrupted and prostituted to the point that half-baked sting operations are lauded as major victories agaianst a fatuous terrorism that exists primarily in the fevered imaginations of xenophobic right-wingers. Naylor paints a depressing but alas accurate portrayal of the United States and its overlord Israel as hypocritical and cynical manipulators of public opinion and myth. Naylor's book is required reading for all patriotic Americans who want to wrest this nation's soul back from the purvyors of intolerance and hate.

The Al Qaeda Money Machine that Never Was

Far from a rant, Taylor's vital book deals in substantive issues of finance and liberty and establishes the criminal folly of current US policy toward Islamic nations based on the myth of an Al Qaeda monolith. If blind obedience to central government is your definition of patriotism, this work is not for you. But if you want to extend Noam Chomsky's perspective on how "consent is manufactured" here is a valuable analytical sequel to that study, well-written and organized and in some respects, indispensable to understanding the disastrous impact of the US government's conspiracy theories and fables.