Devil's game : how the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam

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Label

Devil's game : how the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam

Title remainder

how the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam

Statement of responsibility

Robert Dreyfuss

Creator

• Dreyfuss, Robert

Subject

• Islamic fundamentalism -- Political aspects
• Islamic fundamentalism -- Political aspects
• United States -- Relations -- Islamic countries
• Islamic countries
• United States
• Islamic countries -- Relations -- United States
• International relations

Language

eng

Summary

• "Devil's Game is the previously untold account of America's misguided efforts, stretching across six decades, to cultivate the Islamic right in an effort to dominate the economically and strategically vital Middle East. Drawing on archival research and interviews with policy makers and CIA, defense, and foreign-service officials, Robert Dreyfuss argues that America's historic alliance with the Islamic right is greatly to blame for the emergence of Islamist terrorism in the 1990s."
• "Among the hidden stories of U.S. collusion with radical Islam that Dreyfuss reveals here are President Eisenhower's 1953 Oval Office meeting with a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the United States' later secret alliance with that group and their Saudi patrons against Egypt's President Nasser. Dreyfuss meticulously documents the CIA's funding of the Iranian ayatollahs in the coup d'etat that restored Iran's shah to power, the United States' support for Saudi Arabia's efforts to create a worldwide Islamic bloc as an antidote to Arab nationalism, and the longstanding ties between Islamic fundamentalists and the leading banks of the West
• With clarity and rigor, Dreyfuss also chronicles how the United States looked the other way when Israel's secret service supported the creation of the radical Palestinian-group Hamas and how a secretive clique of American strategists in the 1970s exploited political Islam to conduct a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan - leading directly to the rise of the Taliban."--Jacket

Member of

• American empire project

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

327.73 056/09/045

Index

index present

LC call number

DS35.74.U6

LC item number

D76 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The American empire project