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Author: Brad K. Berner
Publisher: Peacock Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788124801147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the most devastating attack on September 11, 2001, when 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Towers in New York city and one into the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden has been the most wanted man and even chil
Author: Brad K. Berner
Publisher: Booksurge
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781419610462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a compliation of direct quotations of Al Qaeda members, affiliated organizations and supporters in the contemporary world.
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 0571265529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The suicide warriors who attacked Washington and New York on September 11th, 2001, did more than kill thousands of civilians and demolish the World Trade Center. They destroyed the West's ruling myth.' So John Gray begins this short, powerful book on the belief that has dominated our minds for a century and a half - the idea that we are all, more or less, becoming modern and that as we become modern we will become more alike, and at the same time more familiar and more reasonable. Nothing could be further from the truth, Gray argues. Al Qaeda is a product of modernity and of globalisation, and it will not be the last group to use the products of the modern world in its own monstrous way. Gray pulls up by the roots the myth that the human condition can be remade by science and progress or political engineering. He describes with mordant irony the rise of Positivists, the strange sect that put science and technology at the centre of the cult and developed a religion of humanity. Through their influence on economists, politicians and biologists, they still powerfully affect the way we think. Gray looks at the various attempts to remake humanity, from the Bolshevik and Nazi disasters to the utopian experiments of modern radical Islam and the dreams of the prophets of globalisation. And he gives a scathing account of the real sources of conflict in the world, of American power and its illusions, and of the ways in which cultures will resist the reshaping we might wish on them.
Author: Michael Ryan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0231163843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.
Author: Gilles Kepel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780674028043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo reveal the inner workings of Al Qaeda, this book collects and annotates key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. There are excerpts from the writings of Azzabdallah Azzam, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Author: Rohan Gunaratna
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002-06-05
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0231126921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the leadership, ideology, tactics, and finances of Al Qaeda, discusses how the organization trains fighters, and outlines the international response that will be necessary to destroy the organization.
Author: Peter L. Bergen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0743278941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a critical moment in world history The Longest War provides the definitive account of the ongoing battle against terror. --Book Jacket.
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-09-14
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0199790655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author re-evaluates the threat posed by Al-Qaeda following a decade of war.
Author: Syed Saleem Shahzad
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2011-05-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745331010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresident Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist, bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks. Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his life to revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had access to top-level commanders in both movements, as well as within the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence service. Shahzad’s work was praised by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for "bringing to light the troubles extremism poses to Pakistan's stability." Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban explains the wider aims of both organizations and provides an essential analysis of major terrorist incidents, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In May 2011, Shahzad was abducted and killed in Pakistan, days after writing an article suggesting that insiders in the Pakistani navy had colluded with Al-Qaeda in an attack on a naval air station. This book is a testament to his fearless reporting and analytical rigor. It will provide readers worldwide with invaluable insights into the new phase of the ongoing struggle against terrorism which threatens to tear apart the fragile fabric of so many countries.
Author: Abdel Bari Atwan
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0863568432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last ten years, journalist and al-Qa'ida expert Abdel Bari Atwan has cultivated uniquely well-placed sources and amassed a wealth of information about al-Qa'ida's origins, masterminds and plans for the future. Atwan reveals how al-Qa'ida's radical departure from the classic terrorist/guerrilla blueprint has enabled it to outpace less adaptable efforts to neutralize it. The fanaticism of its fighters, and their willingness to kill and be killed, are matched by the leadership's opportunistic recruitment strategies and sophisticated understanding of psychology, media, and new technology - including the use of the internet for training, support, and communications. Atwan shows that far from committing acts of violence randomly and indiscriminately, al-Qa'ida attacks targets according to a decisive design underwritten by unwavering patience. He also argues that events in Iraq and Saudi Arabia are watershed moments in the group's evolution that are making it more dangerous by the day, as it refines and appropriates the concept of jihad and makes the suicide bomber a permanent feature of a global holy war. While Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri remain al-Qa'ida's figureheads, Atwan identifies a new kind of leader made possible by its horizontal chain of command, epitomized by the brutal Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi in Iraq and the bombers of London, Madrid, Amman, Bali, and elsewhere. Scholarly, analytical, objective, it is also intensely readable, being by far the best book on the subject.' -- Tony Benn 'This is a must-read book for anyone interested in understanding our increasingly scary world.' -- Gavin Esler 'What shines out ... is a profound desire to investigate and reveal the truth. Intelligent and informative.' -- Jason Burke, Guardian 'Deeply researched, well reported and full of interesting and surprising analyses. It demands to be read.' -- Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc
