FC: New book gets inside mind of "Assassination Politics" author

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 15:55:59 PDT

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    Jessica Stern is a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School who has made
    something of a study of terrorist groups:
    http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/degreeprog/courses.nsf/wzWebFaculty/Stern306?Opendocument
    
    She also worked at the National Security Council in the mid-1990s.
    Jim Bell is in prison currently; he is best known as the author of
    the political treatise "Assassination Politics":
    http://www.mccullagh.org/subpoena/
    http://jya.com/ap.htm
    
    -Declan
    
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    From: John Young <jyaat_private>
    Subject: Jessica Stern on Jim Bell
    To: cypherpunks
    Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:14:00 -0700
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    Jessica Stern's new book, "Terror in the Name of God : Why
    Religious Militants Kill," has about 8 pages on Jim Bell, in
    a chapter called "Lone Wolf Avengers," which is shared with
    the Pakistani Kansai, assassin of CIA employees.
    
    Stern says that while Bell is not a religion-based terrorist
    he is included in the book as an example of the solo individual
    with a private agenda that smacks of religion. This appears to 
    be a stretch, but Stern stretches her material to fit an agenda.
    
    A Stern footnote says the Bell material is based on the
    forthcoming publication, "James Dalton Bell." She says
    she had numerous telephone interviews with him beginning
    in 2000 after making a request in 1998 during Jim's first
    imprisonment.
    
    Her capsule version of Jim's "crimes" and punishment is
    a bellweather of what may be in store for other miscreants
    who are fodder for terrorism careerists.
    
    To be sure, Jim may get a movie made about him, and I guess
    that would be his finest hour.
    
    Stern says Jim's leadership potential has so far led only to
    inspiring Carl Johnson to get himself thrown into prison.
    
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