The New Jackals

Published in 1998, this New York Times bestseller was the first book on Osama bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Al-Qaeda.[1] Classified documents obtained by the author detailed the existence, development, and aims of al Qaeda.[2]

Reeve's thesis is that a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the Afghan War of the 1980s would later dominate international terrorism. He warned that many of these men, known as the "Afghan Arabs", had become the core of Al-Qaeda and constituted a new breed of terrorist, militants with no restrictions on mass killing. Reeve concluded that by 1998, the world was entering a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, and predicted that Al-Qaeda would launch massive attacks on Western targets.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the book was republished with a new epilogue, which warns that the West remains vulnerable to further attacks, possibly from biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

Published 1998 by Andre Deutsch (later Carlton) in the United Kingdom and NUP in the U.S., ISBN 1-55553-509-7.

• U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), State Department