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This everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid- to-ask book on air piracy, terrorism, and airport security tackles hundreds of pertinent issues, ranging from how to survive a hijacking to what governments can and ought to do before and after an incident. It identifies eight types of hijackers (e.g., political terrorists) and argues that air security could be achieved if effective policies were adopted. Under the avalanche of information, the more subtle political questions regarding 'causes' are stifled. -Library Journal ?This everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid- to-ask book on air piracy, terrorism, and airport security tackles hundreds of pertinent issues, ranging from how to survive a hijacking to what governments can and ought to do before and after an incident. It identifies eight types of hijackers (e.g., political terrorists) and argues that air security could be achieved if effective policies were adopted. Under the avalanche of information, the more subtle political questions regarding 'causes' are stifled.?-Library Journal

?This everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid- to-ask book on air piracy, terrorism, and airport security tackles hundreds of pertinent issues, ranging from how to survive a hijacking to what governments can and ought to do before and after an incident. It identifies eight types of hijackers (e.g., political terrorists) and argues that air security could be achieved if effective policies were adopted. Under the avalanche of information, the more subtle political questions regarding 'causes' are stifled.?-Library Journal

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PETER ST. JOHN is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he specializes in intelligence, espionage, terrorism, and Middle East politics. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, the editor of two books on Canadian foreign policy, and the director of the Counter-Terror Study Centre, an independent think-tank.

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