The terrorists : their weapons, leaders, and tactics / by Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) and index.

Terror : how it came to the seventies -- Terrorism : the reasons why -- Terrorists : behind the mask -- Training : indictrination and skills -- Money : the budget of death -- The weapons of terror - guns -- The weapons of terror - bombs -- Tactics and strategy : and how democracy fights back -- Terror in the eighties -- The who's who of terror -- The chronology of terror.

We have all seen and been chilled by the open face of terrorism. Almost daily its violence explodes on our television screens; its demands are trumpeted in newspaper headlines. But until now only a handful of security experts have known its secrets face -the carefully screened inner operations of the terrorist underground. In this disturbing expose, veteran journalists Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne reveal the secrets of the terrorist international, document its awesome firepower, name its leaders (and the leaders behind them), identify its financiers and dissect thet tactics of terror. The result is as gripping as the latest thriller, yet as "real" as today's news broadcast. This is a book for eveyone who wants to understand why and how the terrorists hace come to hold all of us as hostages in spirit and far too many of us in body as well.