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Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri

Name: Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri
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SKU: 9780199326457
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Contributors:

Brynjar Lia

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, USA

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Political, Terrorism, Middle East

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Release Date:

2009-06-29

ISBN 13:

9780199326457

Weight:

1.45 lbs

Size:

8.40 x 5.40 x 1.30 inches

Pages:

550

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Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the founding of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1988, al-Suri, whose real name is Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, trained a whole generation of young jihadis at his camps in Afghanistan. When he moved back to Spain in the early 1990s, al-Suri took part in establishing Al-Qaeda networks in Europe. In the mid-1990s, he rose to prominence in jihadi circles as editor of the London-based bulletin of the Algerian Groupe Islamique Armee, the most deadly Islamist terrorist group operating in Europe at the time. Al-Suri later formed his own media centre and training camp in Taleban-ruled Afghanistan, to which he returned in 1998. Building on his extensive military experience from the Syrian Islamist insurgency in the early 1980s, he contributed decisively to formulating Al-Qaeda's global warfare strategy. Throughout his writings there is a desire to learn from past mistakes and rectify the course of the jihadi movement. His 1,600 page work, 'The Global Islamic Resistance Call', outlines a broad strategy for the coming generation of Al-Qaeda, with a keen eye for the practical implementation of jihadi guerrilla warfare theories.

About the Author
Brynjar Lia is a research professor at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). He is the author of several books on Islamism and terrorism, including Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism and A Police Force without a State: A History of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank and Gaza.

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