Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and internationally known Middle East expert, uses previously unpublished intelligence documents to piece together the links between the current wave of global terrorism-from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia-and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.

Introduction :The Roots of terror -- Chap. 1. Violent origins : reviving jihad and the war against the polytheists -- Chap. 2. Countering the Wahhabi menace -- Chap. 3. White terror : the Ikhwan and the rise of the modern Saudi Kingdom -- Chap. 4. Building the modern Saudi state : oil, the Palestine question, and the Americans -- Chap. 5. Reactivating Wahhbism -- Chap. 6. The Hothouse for militant Islamic radicalism -- Chap. 7. Wahhabism reasserts itself -- Chap. 8. Wahhabism's global reach -- Chap. 9. Countdown to September 11 : the Gulf War and Wahhabism's new outburst in the 1990's -- Chap. 10. The Hatred continues -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Saudi support for terrorism : the evidence -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.