Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, Douglas Farah. Broadway Books. ©2004. $24.95, cloth. A division of Random House, New York. Website:www.randomhouse.com/broadway.
Doug Farah is a veteran investigative reporter who has written a powerful exposé of the subterranean financial network that funds terrorism. He found indisputable evidence that terrorist groups were laundering money through the blood diamonds of Sierra Leone and Liberia. From diamonds in West Africa to commodities markets in Europe, from cigarette and arms smuggling to charities in U.S. cities, Farah reveals how the network move funds and create opportunities for terrorist action.
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