This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism.

Siew seeks to examine the events that will unfold within the three and a half years before the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. He argues that John composed the textual unit of Rev 11:1--14:5 as a coherent and unified literary unit structured in a macro-chiasm. He pays special attention to the fusion of form and content and seeks to elucidate how the concentric and chiastic pattern informs the meaning of the literary units within 11:1--14:5, and proposes that the text of 11:1--14:5 is best analyzed using Hebraic literary conventions, devices, and compositional techniques such as chiasm, parallelism, parataxis, and structural parallelism. The macro-chiastic pattern provides the literary-structural framework for John to portray that the events of the last three and a half years unfold on earth as a result of what transpires in heaven. Specifically, the war in heaven between Michael and the dragon has earthly ramifications. The outcome of the heavenly war where Satan is defeated and thrown out of heaven to earth results in the war on earth between the two beasts of Rev 13 and the two witnesses of Rev 11. The narrative of the war in heaven (12:7-12) is seen as the pivot of the macro-chiastic structure. Siew pays close attention to the time-period of the three-and-a-half years as a temporal and structural marker which functions to unite the various units in 11:1--14:5 into a coherent and integral whole. The events of the last days will be centred in Jerusalem.

"An extensive collection of significant documents covering all major and minor issues and events regarding terrorism. Government reports, executive orders, speeches, court proceedings, and position papers are presented in full text reprint." (Oceana Website)

"Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice has imprisoned at least seventy men -- all Muslim but one -- indefinitely and without charges in jails across the United States. The men were held under a federal law that permits the arrest and brief detention of 'material witnesses' to a crime, if they might otherwise flee to avoid an order to testify before a grand jury or in court. Although the Justice Department suspected the men of links to terrorism, it held them as material witnesses, not criminal suspects, dodging key safeguards of the right to liberty. At least one-quarter of these men as U.S. citizens. The misuse of the material witness statute is one of the government's more egregious post-September 11 abuses, yet the practice has received little attention. As this report documents, by using the material witness law, the Justice Department circumvented the requirement of probable cause of criminal conduct before an arrest is made. It also denied the witnesses other constitutional and human rights safeguards. [...] Based on more than seventy interviews with material witnesses, their families and counsel, and a comprehensive review of material witness records, this report documents the toll the arrests and detentions have had on post-September 11 material witnesses and continues to have in their every day lives."--Page [4] of cover.

Placing terrorists and terrorist activities within their sociopolitical settings, this volume contains essays by 16 experts on the major theories, typologies, concepts, strategies, tactics, ideologies, practices, implications of, and responses to contemporary political terrorism. New to this edition are essays on typologies and state terrorism in international affairs, and terrorism within Latin America, the Middle East, the United States, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. The authors demystify the myths of contemporary political terrorism, and conclude with discussions of the interrelationship among political terrorism, the media and civil liberties; counterterrorism policies; the threat that terrorists will go nuclear; and the international terrorist network. ISBN 0-8247-7814-6: $45.00.

This work affirms the centrality of Jesus and His coming work of retribution and reward as the keys to understanding Revelation.