Joshua Sinai, a well-known terrorism researcher and long-time reviewer of books on terrorism reviewed Profiles in Terror for The Washington Times in the Sunday book section. Overall it was another favorable review - although I am not sure I am up for his suggestion that I get to work on a future edition.

In Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations (Rowman & Littlefield in cooperation with JINSA Press, $29.95, 392 pages) Aaron Mannes, a Washington has compiled a useful guide to some 20 terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East, whether as indigenous or worldwide affiliated groups. Most of the profiled groups are current; a few, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization, as Mr. Mannes acknowledges, have ceased functioning as terrorists.

One of the strengths of "Profiles in Terror" is the comprehensiveness of the coverage of these groups in a single compendium in terms of their ideology and objectives, history, leadership, organization, financial support, links to states and terrorist organizations, areas of operation, targets and tactics, and a chronology of their activities.

However, there are also several weaknesses. Whereas al Qaeda and its affiliates are grouped together, Palestinian, Lebanese and Kurdish groups are intermingled, instead of being organized into separate and distinct sections. Also, many more incidents could have been listed in the group chronologies, as well as more in-depth analysis of these groups' objectives and modus operandi. Because the book was published in 2004, there is no discussion of terrorism in Iraq, which hopefully will be remedied when the next edition of the compendium is issued.