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Imagine a global where a boy's dreams determine the tendencies of warriors in struggle; where a young couple's only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic problem combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man's life permanently. This is the world of Terrorists in Love. A previous federal government prosecutor and congressional investigator, Ken Ballen put in five years as a pollster and a researcher with exceptional access - via municipality officers, journalists, and clerics - interviewing more than a hundred Islamic radicals, asking them searching questions about their interior lives, deepest faith, and what it was that ultimately drove them to jihad. Close and enlightening, Terrorists in Love opens a fresh home window into the world of violent extremism as Ballen profiles six of the men - from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia - exposing a universe of militancy so peculiar that it seems suffused with marvelous realism. Mystical dreams and visions, the demonic shape of america, intense erotic repression, crumbling family and tribal framework - the storyplot that emerges here is both stunning and breathtakingly intricate. Terrorists in Love presents us to men like Ahmad Al-Shayea, an Al Qaeda suicide bomber who survives his assault only to become fiercely pro-American; Zeddy, who trains terrorists while being paid by America's ally, the Pakistani army; and Malik, Taliban leader Mullah Omar's personal seer. Raising the veil on the incomprehensible world of Muslim holy warriors, Ballen probes these men's deepest secrets, exposing the motivations behind their deadly missions and providing a startling new exploration of what drives them to violence and why there is certainly yet an urgent hope for serenity. An extraordinarily gifted listener and storyteller, Ballen will take us where no one has dared to go - deep in to the secret heart of Islamic fundamentalism, providing a view at the lives, adores, frustrations, and ways of those whose mission it is to kill us.
