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  title info:
    title: Political manipulation and weapons of mass destruction
    sub title: terrorism, influence and persuasion
  name:
    name part: Cole, Ben
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 395 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: Concerns about CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11. This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's efforts to acquire a CBRN weapon capability, and the evolution of the al Qaeda leadership's approach to actually using CBRN weapons, set against the context of the politicisation of the threat of CBRN terrorism in US security debates. Ben Cole explores how the inherently political nature of terrorist CBRN threats has helped to shape al Qaeda's approach to CBRN weapons, and shows how the heightened political sensitivities surrounding the threat have enabled some governments to manipulate it in order to generate domestic and international support for controversial policies, particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He assesses the relative success of the al Qaeda leadership's political approach to CBRN weapons, together with the relative success of efforts by the US, UK and Russian governments to exploit the al Qaeda CBRN threat for their wider political purposes. Shedding new light on al Qaeda's tactics and strategy, this book will be essential reading for scholars of terrorism and extremism studies. -- Back cover.
  table of contents: Opportunism, 1994-6 -- The US and the politics of CBRN terrorism, 1996-8 -- Antecedents : Afghanistan, 1996-8 -- Project Al Zabadi and the pursuit of nuclear weapons -- Al Qaeda's strategy begins to emerge, 1988-2001 -- Opting for deterrence, 1999-2001 -- The end of project Al Zabadi -- Re-establishing a CBRN weapon capability, 2002-3 -- Al Qaeda announces its strategy, 2002-3 -- Constraining the threat, 2002-3 -- The politics of CBRN terrorism and the invasion of Iraq -- Western uncertainty about the threat, 2004-7 -- Losing control of the threat, 2004-8 -- Breakdown in control, 2007-9 -- Influencing the new president, 2008-10 -- A new threat emerges, 2010-15.
  note: Ben Cole.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-388) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Qaida (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Weapons of mass destruction
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Qaida (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Weapons of mass destruction
  classification: U793 .C64 2018
  classification: 358/.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of modern Middle East studies ; 198
  identifier: 178453885X
  identifier: 9781784538859
  identifier: 2019393017
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 161121
    record change date: 20210708105842.0
    record identifier: in00004406473
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng