The Search for Al Qaeda - 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 The Search for Al Qaeda write by Bruce Riedel. This book was released on 2010-06-01. The Search for Al Qaeda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaeda—the origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy of the terrorist network that brought down the Twin Towers and continues to threaten us today. Bruce Riedel draws on decades of insider experience—he was actually in the White House during the September 11 attacks—in profiling the four most important figures in the al Qaeda movement: Usama bin Laden, ideologue and spokesman Ayman Zawahiri, former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Musaib al Zarqawi (killed in 2006), and Mullah Omar, its Taliban host. These profiles provide the base from which Riedel delivers a much clearer understanding of al Qaeda and its goals, as well as what must be done to counter and defeat this most dangerous menace.
Takedown
Takedown - 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 Takedown write by Philip Mudd. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Takedown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Former CIA Deputy Director of Counterterrorism and FBI Senior Intelligence Adviser Philip Mudd recounts his involvement in the fight against Al Qaeda, revealing how intelligence analysts understand and evaluate potential terror threats and communicate with political leaders.
The Secret History of al Qaeda
The Secret History of al Qaeda - 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 The Secret History of al Qaeda write by Abdel Bari Atwan. This book was released on 2012-07-15. The Secret History of al Qaeda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 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
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda - 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 The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda write by Fawaz A. Gerges. This book was released on 2011-09-14. The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author re-evaluates the threat posed by Al-Qaeda following a decade of war.
Al Qaeda in Europe
Al Qaeda in Europe - 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 in Europe write by Lorenzo Vidino. This book was released on 2009-12-04. Al Qaeda in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by an expert at The Investigative Project, a counterterrorism institute and America's largest private data-gathering center on militant Islamic activities, this text fills a critical gap in the understanding of the new threats posed by Islamist terrorism.
