Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) carries a complicated history of terrorist violence in Northern Africa. The colonial influences on Africa are a long-standing cause of the focus of organizations such as AQIM on Western and European interests. Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, AQIM's current leader, has not only published threats against citizens and countries outside of Algeria, but has carried out attacks in seven countries, targeting citizens of Europe and Africa, causing more than 5,000 fatalities, injuries, and kidnappings. Unlike other Salafi jihadist organizations allied with al Qaeda, AQIM...
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) carries a complicated history of terrorist violence in Northern Africa. The colonial influences on Africa are a...
The intent of this book is to answer questions such as which violent leader is more concerned with power and control, and which leader is the most aggressive. The social sciences, particularly linguistic content analysis offer techniques for processing information that leads to answering these types of questions, particularly where it intersects with leadership theories. In this book, a leadership behavioral model is developed and applied to the rhetoric of five terrorist leaders: Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Osama bin Laden, Dokku Umarov Abu Uthman and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The...
The intent of this book is to answer questions such as which violent leader is more concerned with power and control, and which leader is the most agg...
