Author : Daniel Byman
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement write by Daniel Byman. This book was released on 2015. Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Founded as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda achieved a degree of international notoriety with a series of spectacular attacks in the 1990s; however, it was the dramatic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11 that truly launched Al Qaeda onto the global stage. The attacks endowed the organization with world-historical importance and provoked an overwhelming counterattack by the United States and other western countries. Within a year of 9/11, the core of Al Qaeda had been chased out of Afghanistan and into a variety of refuges across the Muslim world. Splinter groups and franchised offshoots were active in the 2000s in countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, but by early 2011, after more than a decade of relentless counterterrorism efforts by the United States and other Western military and intelligence services, most felt that Al Qaeda's moment had passed.