Schmoozing with Terrorists, by Aaron Klein
After 9/11, Americans were all aflutter with the burning question, "Why? Why do these terrorists hate us so much?" Forests-worth of trees were felled so print media could speculate endlessly on the question, formulating opinions that were derived from every angle -- and often from a hodgepodge of "experts" all contradicting each other. Politicians, activists and psychologists held forth on the news and special programs regarding their opinion on what would cause healthy (physically, anyway) individuals to board planes and turn them into airborne missiles, incinerating their fellow passengers in the process. Instead of airing his personal opinion, journalist Aaron Klein decided to go directly to the source, asking terrorist leaders, radical clerics and and angry extremists the burning questions, "Why do you hate us?" and "What do you want from us?" Klein's chutzpah is staggering -- as an Orthodox Jew and a Westerner, he is doubly detested by those whom he interviews. There was certainly more than one occasion, chronicled in Schmoozing with Terrorists, in which the author was lucky to have left the interview (held on the terrorists' turf) with his body unmarred by bullets.
Klein doesn't tiptoe around the terrorists. He asks the hard questions and, more often than not, gets the answers because the extremists believe in their murderous agenda, and they're not shy about explaining exactly why they hate us.
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