War By Fear Or Genghis Khan's Empire

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Frank R. McGrath
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 426 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The faction novel, War by Fear, is a remarkable illustration of how history has repeated itself in Iraq today. The world‘s greatest power of our day, America, has deployed the worlds greatest army to remove the current ‘Caliph of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, and the modern heir, Al-Qaeda to a heretic Islamic sect of Assassins, the Holy Killers of Islam, whose reign of terror in the Middle East lasted for 200 years from 1096-1256. Like the terrorists of old, they pursue random murder of fellow Muslim ‘infidels by their ‘faithful willing to sacrifice themselves to bring down Iraqs legitimate leaders, and shake the resolve of the American government and army.In 1256, the greatest power in the world, Mongolia, deployed the worlds greatest army of their day to remove the Sunni Caliph of Baghdad and destroy the threat of the Assassins scattered in Baghdad, Karbala, Basra, Mosul and Takrit in Iraq, and Teheran and many cities in Iran, by capturing the Grand Master himself in his lofty Eagles Nest of Alamut to the north-east of Iraq. And threat they had been ever since Genghis Khan invaded the Islamic world 1219-24 as far west as Azerbaijan and Georgia in revenge for the slaughter of his ambassadors and stolen the 500 camel caravan with the wealth of Mongolia on their backs.The threat came from their skills in training assassins as the KGB did in 20th century Russia in the language and customs of the courts they intended to penetrate to stab or poison their leaders by self-immolation if necessary - murder by stealth unlike the slaughter of Genghis Khan‘s own father at a banquet in Manchuria. Skills that may have been used in the mysterious deaths of Genghis Khan himself and his Commander-in-Chief, his youngest son Tolui.When the smaller Mongol armies the Mongols left to secure Genghis Khans conquest the Middle East informed the new Great Khan Mongke peaceful submission was impossible until the two most obstinate and difficult of their enemies - the Caliph in Baghdad and the Assassins in Alamut - were removed, he ordered his brother, Hulegu, to eliminate them both. With a vast army of 2 out of 10 soldiers in the Mongol fighting force, a thousand teams of Chinese siege engineers armed with flame throwers, huge mangonels or catapults, and immense crossbows to launch javelins dipped in burning pitch, he stormed the impregnable fortress of Alamut and took the Grand Master captive. Hulegu assumed the Caliphate himself expanding his power into Jerusalem, eliminating the strongholds of the Assassins in Syria. The survivors fled to India, where they became moderate law-abiding Muslims, loyal to the westernised moderate Aga Khans of our day.By recalling how vulnerable great societies and leaders are to assassination, whether ancient or modern, and how easily destroyers can be trained to immolate themselves in such a fearful task as now in Iraq War by Fear is a telling parable for our times.

ISBN: 9780646297538