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family business in trouble,” discusses the challenges to the unwritten contract between the al-Saud ruling family and the country’s growing population. Again, this section, apparently written in 1997, is not directly connected to the events of 11 September 2001. Two other terrorist attacks against US interests—the bombing of the Office of Personnel Management/Saudi Arabian National Guard in November 1995 and of the US military housing complex Khobar Towers in June 1996—are mentioned only in passing. More is known about these attacks than Halliday reveals and, despite the fact that Two Hours ostensibly deals with the 11 September 2001 attacks, he resists the temptation to use the earlier attacks in Saudi Arabia to discuss terrorism. Other contributions of Two Hours are a “Lexicon of Crisis”— interestingly placed at the beginning of the book—that defines relevant historical, Islamic, and ideological terms along with group and location names of value to the reader. Halliday also chose to add six documentary appendices of particular use to students of the 11 September attacks: the Founding Statement of al-Qa`ida (23 February 1998); the Tashkent Declaration on Fundamental Principles for a Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict in Afghanistan (19 July 1999); UN Security Council Resolution 1328 (12 September 2001) condemning the attacks; UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (28 September 2001) dealing largely with the issue of terrorist financing; Osama bin Laden’s 7 October 2001 statement (broadcast on Al-Jazira Television and published the following day in the International Herald Tribune); and the 9 October 2001 statement published by bin Laden spokesman Suleiman Abu Gaith (published in the Financial Times). Despite its disjunction, Two Hours is a rich volume, its valuable contents impossible to outline thoroughly in any review. It would have been much more gratifying if its two 102 parts were better linked. The sections in Two Hours dealing with specific countries would have better served Halliday’s articulation of the West Asian crisis that was the setting for the 11 September attacks, if they were explicitly linked to the attacks. Nonetheless, Two Hours will be of particular interest to the student of the Middle East and/or the Muslim World. It will not be as informative to— and was likely not intended for—the generalist or the casual reader. Still, it is a rare reader who will not be intrigued by Halliday’s ideas here, challenging as they do much of the accepted mythology about Islam and the West. ______________________________ Vol. 5, Fall 2005, © 2005 The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
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