- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (Mar 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470834633
- ISBN-13: 978-0470834633
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #517,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Is Canada doomed to become the next Bosnia or Lebanon--torn apart by civil war? Are we already sliding uncontrollably into a vortex of terror and violence, all because of a corrupt immigration system and do-gooder politicians? Is Canada "on its way out"? These are the questions posed on one of the first pages of Cold Terror, a book by journalist Stewart Bell about terror cells active in Canada. Bell's answer seems to be "yes" to all three questions. "Federal decision makers have not only failed to learn from the bloodshed of the past, but perhaps for a variety of reasons they do not want to," he writes. "Canada has tried to smother terrorism with kindness."
Bell, a reporter with the National Post, says many of the world's most notorious terrorist groups have operatives in Canada. Their stories have already been covered extensively in media reports, but Bell compiles them together in one book to buttress his claim that Canada is lax on terror. Cold Terror recounts some of Bell's previous reporting on the Canadian fundraising activities of groups like the Tamil Tigers and Hezbollah. As a whole, however, many of his assertions come off appearing to be poorly supported or ideologically biased. One Canadian-Algerian man is said to have fought in the 1980s in Afghanistan "according to Canadian documents." What documents? No description is given. Elsewhere, Bell hints that another Canadian man is linked to Al Qaeda simply because Canadian and Lebanese authorities "seem to suspect" there is a connection. Again, this is weak. Bell assures readers that he is not opposed to immigration, yet early in the book he cites favourably the report of a Washington, D.C.-based organization called the Center for Immigration Studies. Not mentioned is the fact that this is an anti-immigration lobby group. In the end, Cold Terror never returns to Bell's original question about whether Canada will become "the next Bosnia." How could the small handful of suspected terrorists whose stories are recounted push Canada into a civil war? Bell implies we should fear the worst but relies largely on innuendo to make his case. --Alex Roslin
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“Every responsible citizen of Canada, the US, the UK and other Western countries should read this book” (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 27 August 2004)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Bell Exposes Canada as Haven for Terror,
By Patrick Grady (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)
Still reeling from 9/11, Americans will be shocked to read Stewart Bell's account of how the Canadian Government has allowed Sihk, Tamil and Islamic terrorists to come into our home and turn it into a safe house for international terror.Bell, who writes for the National Post and is Canada's leading reporter on national security and terrorism, has taken on the courageous task of warning Canadians about the terrorists living amongst us. This has stirred up a real hornets' nest. For his troubles, he has been threatened by many who don't like his message and has been branded as anti-Islamic by the Canadian Islamic Congress. Bell's litany of terrorist incidents around the world involving Canadian terrorists is long enough to qualify Canada for membership in the Axis of Evil. The most infamous are: the 1985 Air India bombing; the 1991 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi; the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York; the 1993 assassination of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa; the 1995 blast at the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad; the murder of 58 tourists in Egypt in 1997; the 1997 truck explosion in Sri Lanka that killed 100; the bloody Bali night club bombings in 2002; and the 2003 attack on the housing compound in Riyadh. Americans need to read this thoroughly-researched and well-documented book to learn about the threat they face from Canadian-based terrorists.
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Cold Terror,
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This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)
Canadians need to read this book. We have been sanguine for too long, letting our government continue to its ostrich mentality.Bell writes a comprehensive and coherant book on terrorist activies in Canada going on under the radar. My dismay is that it has recieved such little attention until now.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A Wakeup Call for Canada,
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This review is from: Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World (Hardcover)
Stewart Bell, a seasoned journalist who has written on terrorism for a dozen years, has been criticized for allegedly targeting minority ethnic groups. But this is no hysterical racist on a crusade; the author is a calm, dispassionate observer who has done his research and analysis in a painstaking and objective manner. His targets are the tiny but terrifying minorities within minorities, and the politicians who tolerate and thus encourage them. Even if one believes, as so many Canadians seem to, that Canada is an unlikely target for terrorism, it is certainly not in our interests to continue harbouring terrorism aimed not only at faraway "enemies", but at our nearest neighbour and chief trading partner. Cold Terror is a serious treatment of a vital problem for which Canadians should demand swift and decisive action.
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