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001 2007020783
003 DLC
005 20080419084450.0
008 070516s2008 nyu b 001 0beng
010 $a 2007020783
020 $a9780231700306 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a023170030X (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn131070027
035 $a(OCoLC)131070027
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050 00 $aHV6430.A23$bL53 2008
082 00 $a363.325092$aB$222
100 1 $aLia, Brynjar.
245 10 $aArchitect of global jihad :$bthe life of al-Qaida strategist Abu Musʻab al-Suri /$cBrynjar Lia.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axii, 510 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 485-501) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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'.
600 10 $aʻAbd al-Ḥakīm, ʻUmar.
650 0 $aTerrorists$zSyria$vBiography.
650 0 $aTerrorism$xReligious aspects$xIslam.
610 20 $aQaida (Organization)
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020783.html