Sam Katz, Author, Samuel M. Katz, Author . New American Library $13.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-21443-0
Had the New York Police Department's Emergency Service Unit (ESU) not done its job on July 31, 1997, the subway tunnels in New York City would have been ground zero. The would-be suicide bombers—two young Palestinians with homegrown rage...
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Samuel M. Katz, Author . Forge/Doherty $24.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0402-5
The clandestine world of the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service is the focus of this latest entry into the post–Sept. 11 publishing sweepstakes by Katz, an expert on international terrorism and security issues. The DSS was...
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Samuel M. Katz, Author Paragon House Publishers $24.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-55778-433-9
Israeli-American military historian Katz's workmanlike study presents the few known facts about Ahmed Jibril and his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Responsible for major terrorist acts from the 1970 destruction of a...
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Samuel M. Katz, Author Presidio Press $21.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-89141-357-8
After its brilliant successes in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the campaign against Black September, A'MAN, Israel's oldest intelligence agency, fell prey to institutional hubris. A'MAN's dangerous overconfidence only deepened, Katz here
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Samuel M. Katz, Author Fromm International $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-88064-243-9
One of the bloodiest and most feared terrorists in the history of the Middle East, Yehiya Ayyash (""the Engineer"") got his start in electronic engineering, innocuously monkeying about with family radios and TV sets. Indeed, Ayyash's original goal...
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