Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

This work talks about the appetite for destruction - the counter-politics that changed the world. An incendiary expose of the misguided power politics practised by the US for almost half a century - a programme that has resulted in the creation of one of history's greatest ever threats to world peace. In Egypt, 1950s - America colludes with the Muslim Brotherhood in an attempt to subjugate non-US-friendly factions in the Middle East. In America, 1983, Ronald Reagan authorises the dispatch of covert funds and armaments to aid a fundamentalist leader in his attempts to claw power from Afghanistan. The name of that leader? Osama bin Laden. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon and foreign service officials, Robert Dreyfuss follows the trail of American sponsorship from their support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, through links with Khomeini and Afghani jihadists, to longstanding ties between radical Islamists and leading banks of the West. The bottom line is simple: America, in attempting to weaken the strategically vital Middle East for her own gains, has bred an arena of pit bulls who, off the leash and free, are turning hard against the hand that fed them. It's the stuff of high tragedy - only this is real. And this is why.