Holy War, Inc.

"Holy War, Inc." is the most recent book I have read. It was written by Peter Bergen, a CNN reporter who is one of the few Westerners to have interviewed Osama bin Laden.

The thesis of this book, like others I have read, is more or less that bin Laden is a serious character who is extremely devoted to his cause. The book goes into defining his cause, which is to completely remove Western influence from the Middle East and to overthrow many of the regimes in control of Middle Eastern countries.

While this is not new info, it is impressive to read the works of someone (an American who grew up in Britain), who has been chasing radical Islamists for the length of his career.

I think it is a great book for an introduction into this movement called al Qaeda. Bergen is one of the few journalists who actually "get it."