Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban : beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 / Syed Saleem Shahzad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahzad, Syed Saleem.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics.

Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Terrorism.

Qaida (Organization).

Taliban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Pluto Press, 2011.

Summary:

President 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 organisations 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 rigour. It will provide readers worldwide with an invaluable introduction to a new phase of the ongoing struggle against terrorism which threatens lives in so many countries.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Maps

Preface

Prologue

1. A new world: destruction, migration, friends, and foes

PLAYING WITH FIRE

AL-QAEDA'S NEW APPROACH

2. The politics of war and peace

NEW AL-QAEDA PLAYERS AND ACTIONS

THE SPRING OFFENSIVE 2006: AL-QAEDA'S WATERSHED

THE NEW TALIBAN STRATEGY

BACK TO BASE

THE WRATH OF THE UNITED STATES

SETTING UP THE AF-PAK THEATER OF WAR

TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN: AL-QAEDA'S BROOD

IRANIAN JUNDULLAH: AL-QAEDA'S NEW SYNDICATION

PLANNING NATO'S WATERLOO

A SWAT WHIRLPOOL SET TO SINK THE AF-PAK STRATEGY

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

3. First step: leadership building and transformation of the "sons of the soil" to "blood brothers"

CAPTAIN KHURRAM, THE MARTYR

THE RISE AND FALL OF MAJOR HAROON

ARREST

MAJOR HAROON 'S IDEOLOGICAL JOURNEY

THE NEO-TALIBAN IN TALIBAN RANKS

THE HAQQANI NETWORK: THE TALIBAN'S REAL STRENGTH

FROM THE SHADOWS TO THE SHADOW ARMY

AL-QAEDA'S SOUL IN A NEW BODY: LASKHAR AL ZIL

AL-QAEDA'S BLOOD BROTHERS SAGA: SOMALIA AND YEMEN

4. Takfeer and Khuruj: an ideological thesis for the separation of Islamists and states

THE TAKFEER: ORCHESTRATING A CLASH

LITERATURE THAT CHANGES THE MIND

ROOTS OF THE IDEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

IBN TAMIYYAH, AN IDEOLOGUE FOR THE NEXT 1,000 YEARS

5. Antithesis: debate on the legitimacy of the resistance

6. The synthesis

The beginning of revolt

7. Building the eagles' nest

How the Taliban maneuvered

An insurgent world in the Hindu Kush

Tribal insurgency: a battle before the real battle

Revolution in the mountains

Al-Qaeda takes steps for broadening ties with Iran

An amazing maze

8. The theater of war

Ghazwa-e-Hind

The harvest is ready but …

Al-Qaeda splits the spoils of war

Harkat-ul Jihad-i-Islami: from ISI to Al-Qaeda

Epilogue

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-84964-594-9

OCLC:

742570149