Inside Al Qaeda: global network of terror 9780231501828, 0231126921, 9780231126922, 023150182X

Based on five years of research, it sheds crucial new light on Al Qaeda's role in financing and training terrorists

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Inside Al Qaeda: global network of terror
 9780231501828, 0231126921, 9780231126922, 023150182X

Table of contents :
Cover
Half title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Publisher's Note
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface (2003)
Appendix to the Preface (2003)
Introduction
1. Who is Osama bin Laden?
2. Al Qaeda's Organisation, Ideology and Strategy
055 Brigade
Financial network
Training
Tactics
Ideology
3. Al Qaeda's Global Network
Decentralisation
North America
Europe
Britain
France
Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain
Germany
The Balkans
Role of Islamic NGOs and charities in the Balkans
The Caucasus
Egypt
Algeria
Yemen
United Arab Emirates
Libya
Saudi Arabia. Iran, Lebanon, HezbollahIraq
Israel/The Occupied Territories
Africa
Sudan
Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America
4. Asia: Al Qaeda's New Theatre
Al Qaeda's network in the Asia-Pacific region
Central Asia and Xinjiang (Western China)
China
South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia)
Indonesia
Thailand
Myanmar
Japan and Korea
Australia
India and Pakistan
Bangladesh
5. The Al Qaeda Threat and the International Response
The context
Understanding the threat
Al Qaeda's strategy
Damage assessment
Al Qaeda's mindset
Threat trajectory
Short-term response
Mid-term response.

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