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Kennedy School of Government Lecturer on Public Policy Jessica Stern has sat face-to-face with some of the most dangerous and elusive religious extremists and terrorists...
...book was conceived while she was researching her last work, The Ultimate Terrorists. Instead of studying her subjects from afar, Stern decided to actually call some of the individuals who had tried to obtain chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. What she found was a startling perspective on the mystery surrounding religious militants...
...first conversations was with a man who had been involved in an identity Christian cult. I was curious as to how a person who was so deeply religious could be involved in a cult that did such horrible things,” Stern recalls...
Within each chapter of Terror in the Name of God, Stern delves into the fusion of religion and terrorism in the modern world...
...Kandahar meeting seems quite plausible, however, given other evidence that’s come to light. For one thing, bin Laden’s “official biographer,” Hamid Mir of al Jazeera, has made indirect reference to it. Harvard lecturer and terrorism specialist Jessica Stern, a former Clinton official, writes in Foreign Affairs that Mir claims to have “‘personal knowledge’ that [Hijazi] tried to contact bin Laden in Afghanistan as early...