Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network

ISBN-13: 9781859738078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str.

Evan F. Kohlmann

Opis

Why did so many of the 9/11 hijackers spend time in Germany? How did terrorist sleeper cells plant themselves in cities like London, Paris, Rome, and Hamburg? What exactly is Al-Qaida's connection to Europe? Terrorism analyst Evan F. Kohlmann unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and reveals the root of its terror lies in the Bosnian War. He includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al-Qaida records and internal documents, and interviews with notorious figures such as London-based Bin Laden sympathizer Abu Hamza Al-Masri. This is the first book to uncover the secret history of how Europe was systematically infiltrated by the ranks of the most dangerous terrorist organization on earth, as told by the terrorists themselves and the daring investigators who have tirelessly tracked them over the past decade.

Recenzje

Superbly researched, this book tells the story of al-Qaida's birth in 1980s Afghanistan, and the subsequent training of militant Islamists for transportation to Bosnia: ostensibly to fight alongside their fellow Muslims against the Serbs and then Croats but really, as Kohlmann shows, to establish a permanent base for subsequent terrorist operations against European targets. There is an especially interesting chapter on the Saudi-funded charities that channelled money for arms into the conflict, some financing the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The Guardian (http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,1312063,00.html) Saturday September 25, 2004

Spis treści

Notes from the AuthorPrologue: 'In the Land of Ice Cream'Chapter 1: The Afghan CrucibleChapter 2: Jihad comes to BosniaChapter 3: The Role of the Islamic CharitiesChapter 4: The Battle BeginsChapter 5: Confrontation with the CroatsChapter 6: Attention Turns WestwardChapter 7: The Final CampaignChapter 8: A Post-Dayton Wave of TerrorChapter 9: Blowback - The North African Sleeper Cell NetworkChapter 10: Post-9/11 Implications for BosniaEpilogue: Lessons of the 'Afghano-Bosniaks'

O autorze

Evan F. Kohlmann is an International Terrorism Consultant based in Washington, DC. He has served as an expert witness on Al-Qaida and Usama Bin Laden in post-9/11 federal terrorism trials held in the U.S. His articles have appeared in the New York Post, FoxNews.com, and the National Review, and he is frequently interviewed as a terrorist expert in the major media, including NBC, CNN, and Fox news programs.