"Seeds of Terror"

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The paper discusses how "Seeds of Terror" speaks about the growth and expansion of al-Qaeda's terrorist network in Southeast Asia. The paper looks at Ressa's portrayal of how they build their cells or networks from grassroots to political levels and work with brutal means such as killings, bombings and kidnappings. The paper explains that Ressa's main point is that al-Qaeda is not only the homegrown group we thought it was especially after the 9/11 events, but is also an organization with clout and financing that can extend its reach in the fours corners of the globe. The paper includes book reviews by LCDR Aboul-Enein of the Marine Corps Gazette, the Publisher's Weekly/Reed Business Information, Inc. and by Joe Moe of Amazon.com.

From the Paper:

"Books at times changed not only people's perceptions but their lives as well. This holds true especially for books that bear witness to pains, sufferings and affliction brought about by men on their fellow human beings. Maria Ressa's Seeds of Terror is on of those books that tell us how evil man could get and to what depths he is capable of going into to show his malevolence. The book could be many things to different peoples - it could be a history book because if portrays the events and explains the happenstance of the existence of the al-Qaeda network in a usually forgotten region known as Southeast Asia. For Ressa, Seeds of Terror could be a biography - her own autobiography and the way she bears witness to the atrocities of the terrorist group, or the biographies of the personalities in the book whether the perpetrators of the devious acts or victims themselves."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Queda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia. By Maria A. Ressa. New York, NY: Free Press, 2003. 272 pages. $26.00 (hardbound).

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