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Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was
introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden.
But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and
unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major
wars had been on the scene long before that eventful morning. In Al
Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What
Everyone Needs to Know, Daniel L. Byman, an eminent scholar of
Middle East terrorism and international security who served on the
9/11 Commission, provides a sharp and concise overview of Al Qaeda,
from its humble origins in the mountains of Afghanistan to the
present, explaining its perseverance and adaptation since 9/11 and
the limits of U.S. and allied counterterrorism efforts. The
organization that would come to be known as Al Qaeda traces its
roots to the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Founded
as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda achieved a
degree of international notoriety with a series of spectacular
attacks in the 1990s; however, it was the dramatic assaults on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11 that truly launched Al
Qaeda onto the global stage. The attacks endowed the organization
with world-historical importance and provoked an overwhelming
counterattack by the United States and other western countries.
Within a year of 9/11, the core of Al Qaeda had been chased out of
Afghanistan and into a variety of refuges across the Muslim world.
Splinter groups and franchised offshoots were active in the 2000s
in countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, but by early 2011,
after more than a decade of relentless counterterrorism efforts by
the United States and other Western military and intelligence
services, most felt that Al Qaeda's moment had passed. With the
death of Osama bin Laden in May of that year, many predicted that
Al Qaeda was in its death throes. Shockingly, Al Qaeda has staged a
remarkable comeback in the last few years. In almost every conflict
in the Muslim world, from portions of the Xanjing region in
northwest China to the African subcontinent, Al Qaeda franchises or
like-minded groups have played a role. Al Qaeda's extreme Salafist
ideology continues to appeal to radicalized Sunni Muslims
throughout the world, and it has successfully altered its
organizational structure so that it can both weather America's
enduring full-spectrum assault and tailor its message to specific
audiences. Authoritative and highly readable, Byman's account
offers readers insightful and penetrating answers to the
fundamental questions about Al Qaeda: who they are, where they came
from, where they're going-and, perhaps most critically-what we can
do about it.
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