ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A Documentary Reader

For readers who want to go back to the source(s), Barry Rubin, a leading scholar on the Middle East, and Judith Colp Rubin, a journalist, present a wide range of texts, including writings by Islamist Sayyid Qutb (on preparing for jihad), Osama bin Laden (his 1996 declaration of war against the "Zionist-crusaders alliance") and his close associate Aymam al-Zawahiri ("Why Attack America"). (Sept. 10).