A "terrorism expert" at the Investigative Project, "the largest private data-gathering center on Islamic terrorism in the United States," Vidino profiles the operations of Islamic terrorists in Europe. He first paints a picture of European Muslims living "lives of deceit...exploiting Western freedoms while striving to destroy them" and examines European attempts to shut down Islamist networks. He then describes Algerian and Moroccan terrorist networks and an al Qaeda recruiting campaign for Iraq. While recent bombings in Europe make it clear that there are indeed some Islamic terrorists operating in Europe, the expansive claims of this work might be taken with a few grains of salt considering recent libel suits filed against the Investigative Project by the Islamic Society of Boston, among a number of other organizations, and the widely held belief, encouraged by the Investigative Project in their fundraising efforts, that the Project was behind much of the information presented in the terrorism trial of U. of South Florida professor Sami al Arian, which recently resulted in acquittal on all charges. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)