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Author | : Marc Sageman |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2010-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1437927742 |
Provides a better understanding of the threat confronting our homeland security in order to ¿disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al Qaeda and its allies.¿ Sageman conducted a comprehensive survey of all the al Qaeda plots in the West, all the al Qaeda affiliate plots in the West and all the plots done ¿in the name of al Qaeda¿ in the West since the formation of al Qaeda in August 1988. The global neo-jihadi terrorist threat includes plots under the control of al Qaeda core; al Qaeda affiliates like the Algerian Groupes Islamiques Armes, Pakistani Lashkar e-Toyba, the Uzbek Islamic Jihad Union, the Pakistani Tehrik e-Taliban Pakista; and threats by autonomous groups inspired by al Qaeda like the Dutch Hofstad group. Graphs.
Author | : United States Senate |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781691154296 |
Confronting al-Qaeda: understanding the threat in Afghanistan and beyond: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, October 7, 2009.
Author | : United States Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781978182844 |
Confronting al-Qaeda: understanding the threat in Afghanistan and beyond : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, October 7, 2009.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
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Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Christina Hellmich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317108930 |
Despite a plethora of studies devoted to it, the current understanding of al-Qaeda and the threat it poses remains vague and ambiguous. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly structured organisation, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an ideology? What role did Osama bin Laden play within the group and its terrorist campaign? What does it mean to talk about the "global Salafi-jihad" threat allegedly confronting the West? In addressing such questions many writers have sought to offer definitive answers, yet overall the truth about al-Qaeda remains elusive. This book moves beyond this traditional approach in order to investigate and critically assess how such answers reflect the particular epistemological frameworks within which they are produced. Its chapters explore the varied contexts within which the obscure entity labelled al-Qaeda is constituted as a comprehensible object of political, strategic, cultural, and scientific knowledge, and within which 'terrorism' is rendered an experience of quotidian life. This volume offers a much-needed critical reflection on Western ways of talking and of thinking about the frightening experience of global terrorism. In trying to know how we know al-Qaeda, it offers us an opportunity to try to know ourselves and our often hidden assumptions about legitimacy, violence, and political purpose.
Author | : Mary E. A. Buckley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : International relations |
ISBN | : 0415314305 |
This book examines how the world has reacted to, and been affected by, the terrorist attacks on September 11th, the ensuing war in Afghanistan and President George Bush's declaration of a 'war on terror' as the 'first war of the 21st Century'.
Author | : Magnus Ranstorp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317538056 |
This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies. It is often said that terrorist groups are relatively conservative in character operating in a technological vacuum – relying almost exclusively on bombs and bullets. This observation masks increasing complexity and creativity and innovation within terrorist groups and one of the most distinguishing features of al-Qaeda’s terrorist operations is its propensity for remarkable innovation. This book examines how and why terrorist groups innovate more generally and al-Qaeda-related terrorist plots in Europe more specifically. The starting point for this book was twofold. Firstly to examine the issue of innovation and learning more generically both in theory, within specific themes and within the context of al-Qaeda’s influence on this process. Secondly, this book examines the evolution of specific al-Qaeda-related plots in three specific northern EU states – the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany - where there has been a significant volume of planned, failed and executed terrorist plots. In particular, these case studies explore signs of innovation and learning. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, security studies and IR in general.
Author | : Rick David Nelson |
Publisher | : CSIS Reports |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780892066674 |
Al Qaeda and associated movements (AQAM) have become an increasingly diffuse security threat. Although the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands may have represented the epicenter of global terrorism in the past decade, al Qaeda's various regional affiliates are growing in prominence. The past several years also have seen a rise in al Qaeda-inspired plots by small cells or unaffiliated individuals based in the West. This flattening and expansion of al Qaeda's global scope, both physically and virtually, has complicated U.S. and international efforts to combat global terrorism. Counterterrorism professionals work tirelessly to confront existing threats. But the need to focus on today's exigencies, combined with officials' limited resources for alternative and long-range planning, means that governments tend to pursue reactive, rather than anticipatory, policies and strategies vis-à-vis terrorism. Containing, if not defeating, AQAM will require that policymakers and practitioners shape a global environment that is inhospitable to terrorism. Doing this, in turn, necessitates a better understanding of where and how future AQAM threats are likely to emerge. This report seeks to help fill this need for anticipatory knowledge and assist in the development of improved counterterrorism policies and strategy.