The Jihad by Oliver North

A very tightly sprung yarn. With intricately bounded timelines. It tells the story of what motivated the Islamic JIhad, and what crafted these beliefs. It is a different story than what you've heard before, about the Koran and war influencing the Islamic Jihad. Because this talks about recent history influencing the Arabs. Instead of the Koran, Oliver North talks about how Israeli military victories like the Six Day War proved to the Arabs that something else must be used to achieve victory. They looked at Israel and thought to themselves, "these people are religious, it must give them strength, we will get religious as well and defeat them". Arafat's PLO liberation front decided on guns and religion, because obviously tanks didn't work.

Then the Munich hostage takings. Germany captured 3 of the terrorists but gave those terroists up in return for a hijacked Lutanza airplane. The message was clear to the Arabs. Terrorism works, taking hostages work. Fighting conventional wars with Israel? That was going to kick the Arab's ass obviously.

The Iranian Revolution? Further proof, that Americans Could Do Nothing against the Divine Fury of Allah and the Islamic Jihad. Six American Special Ops operators were killed in a crash in a desert storm. Further proof that the Arabs need do nothing against the conventional power of the West, Allah was on their side. Afghanistan war right after Munich? Further proof that Al Qaeda could destroy the infidels on their territory.

Beirut Bombing, proof that car bombs worked and if you kill enough Americans we will leave. Navy Diver executed on a hijacked plane, dumped on the tarmack, body returned in a casket to the US. Terrorist involved in that, released from Germany (again) in 2005.

Germany, Israel, Russia, and the US. All defeated by terrorism, the will of allah, and NONE by conventional armies. The proof was in the pudding. THe Islamic Jihad now had their mandate, their tradition, their esprit de corps.

What you need to do now is to erase all their successes by crushing defeats. Absolute total destruction, ruthlessness beyond cruelty, and iron fist policies all the way. Anything less, well, that would be Iraq and Israel's history, now wouldn't it.