Author(s): Loretta Napoleoni

Politics

Terror Inc. propels you into the centre of illegal organizations, and explains how they fund their activities, having moved from the state-sponsored terrorism of the Cold War, to running their own illegal and legal businesses. Investigating groups across the world - from Islamist terror organisations such as Al-Qaeda to the IRA, ETA and terrorism in South America - Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system and argues that the truth of 'the new economy of terror' (worth 1.5 trillion dollars) is intimately connected to the growth of the free market, and the state of Western economies.