The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists

by Bilveer Singh

Long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, awakened the United States and the Western world to the heightened level of the terrorist threat, Southeast Asia had been dealing with this threat. The bombing in Bali that killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists, was by no means the region's first experience with Islamic extremism, which can be traced back to the 1940s, and the Darul Islam struggle. The most recent group to emerge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275999955
• ISBN13: 9780275999957
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"