ISBN: 9780367712792
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: CASE STUDIES FROM ASIA
Author: ROHAN GUNARATNA

A definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with Al Qaeda members: field research in Al Qaeda-supported conflict zones around the globe: and monitoring of Al Qaeda’s infiltration of diaspora and migrant communities in North America and Europe.

This book sheds light on Al Qaeda’s financial infrastructure and how the organization trains combat soldiers and vanguard fighters for multiple guerrilla, terrorist and semi conventional campaigns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. In addition, the author investigates the clandestine Al Qaeda operational network in the West.

Gunaratna reveals how the charismatic fanatic Osama bin Laden provides much of the brainpower and most of the inspiration behind Al Qaeda

– How Osama bin Laden had his mentor and Al Qaeda founder ‘Azzam’ assassinated in order to take over the organization and how other Al Qaeda officers who stood in his way were murdered

– How Al Qaeda planned to destroy the British Parliament on September 11 and to spew nerve gas on the European Parliament

– How the lran-Hezbollah-Al Qaeda link provided the knowledge required to conduct coordinated, simultaneous attacks on multiple targets, including failed plans to destroy Los Angeles International Airport, USS The Sullivans, the Radisson Hotel in Jordan, and eleven US commercial airliners over the Pacific Ocean

– That one-fifth of international Islamic charities and NGOs are infiltrated by Al Qaeda

– How the US response is effective militarily in the short term but insufficient to counter Al Qaeda’s ideology and strategy in the long term.

Gunaratna shows that for Al Qaeda to be destroyed there needs to be a multipronged, multiagency, and multidimensional response by the international community.

ISBN: 969402370X
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERROR
Author: ROHAN GUNARATNA