Terror network: the secret war of International terrorism

This is a book of urgent importance to us all. For the past decade there has been a growing, highly organized terrorist network, extending from Europe through Havana to the East, and its undercover pairon and ultimate beneficiary has been the Soviet Union. Such is the momentous claim made by investigative journalist Claire Sterling in this remarkable new study.

Bombings, hijackings and political assassinations have become daily events, but still more shocking is the global pattern that emerges from them. Groups such as the Red Brigades, ETA, the IRA, the PLO and the German June 2 movement, generally seen as highly efficient independent units, are revealed to have trained together in Cuba and the Middle East. Through a series of fascinating personal portraits Claire Sterling dissects the psychology of the men and women involved who, expertly trained, massively armed and immensely rich, assist each other on missions throughout the world. She devotes one chapter to the infamous 'Carlos', the Jackal, who orches trated a multinational strike force around the Palestine Rejection Front, part of a movement wholly armed by the Soviet Union since 1968.

The nature of the network that emerges is staggering, and yet no Western government has confronted the Soviet Union with the incriminating evidence as it is documented ere. This extraordinary book will surely ave an enormous and far-reaching impact.

Claire Sterling is an American foreign correspondent, based in Italy. She has reported on European, African, Middle Eastern and South-East Asian affairs for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, The Reporter, Life, the Reader's Digest, Harper's and the New Republic. Since 1970 she has been writing columns of political analysis for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune.