For Whom the Bell Tolls: America or the Jihadists?

Terrorism happens to be a very broad concept in that it may cover secular political, religious, or even environmental and animal rights demands. This book deals with radical Islamic groups (these days this concept has become synonymous with the word jihadists’) and the United States. At the core of terrorism or any terrorist group lies the importance of smooth and abundant availability of arms and finance. Without these two supply lines, terrorism might either degenerate into the level of individual murders or it would simply be a hollow concept.

The recent 26/11 Mumbai carnage by the Pakistani based Lashakar-e-Toiba (LeT) group has amply shown that these are mindless killers for whom life has little value. But the ideology propounded by the terrorist masterminds in this part of the world and in Asia does not always conform to the original tenets of Islam. Since the goal or objective of these fundamentalist terrorist groups, like the Al Queda, LeT, the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) or any other Mujahideen group is a political one, it is difficult to comprehend how any such movement could be defined in purely religious terms. This book discusses how American indiscretion can put the jihadists in the driver’s seat.