For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of
al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place
to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the
Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial
nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before the strikes on the
Pentagon and World Trade Center, but when the allies overran
Afghanistan, the new camps in Southeast Asia became the key
training grounds for the future. It is in the Muslim strongholds in
the Philippines and Indonesia that the next generation of al-Qaeda
can be found. In this powerful, eye-opening work, Maria Ressa casts
the most illuminating light ever on this fascinating but
little-known "terrorist HQ."
Every major al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the
Philippines, and Maria Ressa, CNN's lead investigative reporter for
Asia and a Filipino-American who has lived in the region since
1986, has broken story after story about them. From the early,
failed attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton
to the planning of the 9/11 strikes and the "48 Hours of Terror,"
in which eleven American jetliners were to be blown up over the
Pacific, she has interviewed the terrorists, their neighbors and
families, and the investigators from six different countries who
have tracked them down. After the Bali bombing, al-Qaeda's worst
strike since 9/11, which killed more than two hundred, Ressa broke
major revelations about how it was planned, why it was a Plan B
substitute for an even more ambitious scheme aimed at Singapore,
and why the suicide bomber recruited to deliver the explosives
almost caused the whole plan to fall apart when he admitted he
could barely drive a car.
Above all, Ressa has seen how al-Qaeda's tactics are shifting under
the pressures of the war on terror. Rather than depending upon its
own core membership (estimated at three to four thousand at its
peak), the network is now enmeshing itself in local conflicts,
co-opting Muslim independence movements wherever they can be found,
and helping local "revolutionaries" to fund, plan, and execute
sinister attacks against their neighbors and the West.
If history is any guide, al-Qaeda revisits its plans over and over
until they can succeed -- and many of those plans have already been
discovered and are here revealed, thanks to classified
investigative documents uncovered by Ressa.
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