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Al-Qaeda - From Global Network to Local Franchise (Paperback)
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Al-Qaeda - From Global Network to Local Franchise (Paperback)
Series: Rebels
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Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 and up to and beyond Osama
bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic
face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and
international security. Yet in spite of the attention it receives,
conflicting assumptions about the group abound. Is al-Qaeda a
rigidly structured organization, a global network of
semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an idea whose time
has come? What is meant by talk of the "global Salafi jihad" that
is confronting the West? What are the implications of bin Laden's
death? Christina Hellmich offers a critical examination of the
widely-held notions regarding the origins and manifestations of
al-Qaeda and the sources on which they rely, mapping the
organization's alleged transition from what began as a regional
struggle against the Soviets in Afghanistan to the increasingly
leaderless jihad of the post-9/11 world. Rather than just providing
yet another biography of al-Qaeda, Hellmich forensically examines
discrepancies between the most common explanations and to the
limits of what can realistically be known. Drawing on
Arabic-language sources - some of them previously unavailable in
English - "Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise" offers
a penetrating insight into an organization which, for all its
notoriety, is one of the least-understood of our time.
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