Book Reviews
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BOOK REVIEWS Israel Versus Jibril: The Thirty-Year War Against A Master Terrorist Samuel M. Katz. New York: Paragon House, 1993. 285 pp., $24.95 Library shelves are filled with books devoted to the cause, impact, and future of Middle-Eastern terrorism. Few of these works, however, chronicle the life experience and the very personality of specific terrorists. We are usually treated to the inner workings of the terrorist mindset long after the terrorist himself is history. Obtaining accurate information on the clandes- tine nature of the individual terrorist mirrors the difficulty involved in measuring the "dark figure of crime." Israel Versus Jibril by Samuel Katz is the first in-depth study of the mysterious Ahmed Jibril, aka, Abu Jihard (Father Holy War). This master terrorist has eluded the world's most sophisticated security forces for over 30 years. Katz's work is so detailed that it might just replace, or at the very least supplement, most western intelligence agencies files on the elusive Jibril. The material in Katz's book provides the interested researcher with enough data to profile Jibril much in the same way Freud, Bullitt, and Langer completed their psychoanalytical studies of Wilson and Hitler. Katz paints a frightening portrait of Jibril