Judith

God Has Ninety-Nine Names; Reporting from a Militant Middle East

1996réf. 40273New York: Simon & Schuster 1996. First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 25 cm. 574 2 pages. Maps. Notes. Index. Slight DJ wear and soiling. Signed by the author on second fep. Judith Miller born January 2 1948 is an American journalist and commentator. She worked in The New York Times' Washington bureau before joining Fox News. Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi. The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. Miller was involved in the Plame Affair in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA became widely known. When asked to name her sources Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the Central Intelligence Agency leak and spent 85 days in jail protecting her source Scooter Libby. Miller was forced to resign from her job at The New York Times in November 2005. Later she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel. Derived from a Kirkus review: Veteran correspondent Miller has been reporting from the Middle East for more than two decades writing about Islam's rush to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of secular Arab nationalism. She profiles ten countries from Algeria in the west to Iran in the east attempting to explain historically and politically how each country arrived at its often perilous and sometimes tragic present. In virtually every country there is some form of violent Islamic militancy at work and governments have tried with varying success to either co-opt or repress the movement. Miller critical of violations of civil and human rights concedes that Syria's President al-Assad has dealt with the militants more effectively than anyone else by terrifying away their potential followers with his 1982 massacre of thousands of people in the town of Hama following an uprising. But Miller also argues that militant Islam is far less homogeneous than commonly depicted. Miller's writing is rich and detailed and her vivid profiles of Libya's Qaddafi and Jordan's King Hussein are worth the price of the book. A nuanced examination of Islamic militancy that puts this growing movement and its most horrible terrorist manifestations into invaluable context. Simon & Schuster hardcover

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