Architect of global jihad : the life of al-Qaida strategist Abu Musʻab al-Suri /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lia, Brynjar
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How important is Abu Musʻab-al-Suri today?
  • Sources on al-Suri's life
  • Who is Abu Musʻab al-Suri?
  • The Syrian jihad
  • Turmoil and uprising
  • Joining the rebels
  • A jihadi in exile
  • The Hama debacle
  • In exile in Saudi Arabia
  • Exile in Europe
  • Between exile in France and the Syrian jihad
  • In Andalus
  • Al-Suri's first publication: 'The Islamic jihadi revolution in Syria'
  • The bombing of El Descanso restaurant in Madrid?
  • Afghanistan: land of holy war
  • The road to Afghanistan
  • From a Syrian to a global jihad
  • With Abdallah Azzam and Osama bin Laden
  • Training and combat
  • From military instructor to jihadi intellectual
  • The rise of the Egyptian jihadi trend in Peshawar
  • Introducing 'a global Islamic resistance' concept
  • Leaving Peshawar
  • Behind enemy lines
  • Algeria: his next jihad
  • The GIA and al-Qaida in Sudan
  • A new Syrian jihad group?
  • The rise of an al-Qaida cell in Spain
  • A media jihadi in Londonistan 1994-97
  • In the service of the Algerian GIA
  • Bin Laden's media agent
  • Al-Suri's film on Channel 4
  • Facilitating CNN's bin Laden interview
  • With al-Quds al-Arabi in Tora Bora
  • Meeting the Financial Times
  • Suing the Arab world's largest newspaper
  • Companions, rivals, acquaintances
  • Abu Qutadah al-Filastini: a love-hate relationship
  • Muhammad Bahayah: life-long friend and companion
  • Taysir Allouni: a point of contact in al-Jazeera
  • Amir Azizi: a Moroccan aide and training associate?
  • Adil Abd al-Bari: a fellow jihadi journalist
  • Saad al-Faqih and Khalid al-Fawwaz: acquaintances inside the Saudi camp
  • Noman Benotman and the Libyan Islamic fighting group
  • In the service of the taleban
  • Leaving Londonistan
  • Taleban: the true Islamic emirate
  • The Afghan training camps
  • The Ghuraba training camp
  • Teaching jihadi terrorism
  • Moroccan jihadis, Abu Layth al-Libi and Abu Musʻab al-Zarqawi
  • Writer and journalist
  • Al-Suri and the al-Qaida leadership
  • A secessionist leader?
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • The September 11th attacks
  • A $5 million dollar al-Qaida fugitive
  • New books, a reward, and global fame
  • His activities and whereabouts
  • Al-Suri, al-Zarqawi, and the Iraqi front
  • Masterminding terror?
  • A message to the Europeans, July 2005
  • Al-Suri's testament
  • The capture of al-Suri
  • 'The global Islamic resistance call'.