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With the help of George W. Bush's war, al-Zarqawi was able to do what bin Laden could not: spread the message of jihad into Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation
Seven Stories Press
November 2005
288 pages ISBN: 1583227059 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
In Insurgent Iraq, Loretta Napoleoni examines the climate
in which Iraq's most notorious insurgent, Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi, opened a new front in the modern jihad. With the
help of George W. Bush's war, al-Zarqawi was able to do
what bin Laden could not: spread the message of jihad into
Iraq. Arguing that the American adventure in Iraq resuscitated a
network rife with conflict and birthed a new generation of
post-Cold War mujahedin, the author presents previously
unpublished documents from Afghanistan that reveal bitter
disagreement between the Egyptian and the Saudi factions of
al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. Within this dispute Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi, a working-class, uneducated Jordanian, emerged to
successfully create his own network of Islamist warriors
based in Afghanistan, opening up a new front in the modern
jihad in Iraq. In Insurgent Iraq, Napoleoni presents a chilling account of
the regrouping of terror networks under a new leadership
with a new agenda, tracing the ascent of one of the globe's
most enigmatic and deadly figures. Loretta Napoleoni, a former Fulbright Scholar at Johns
Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies and Rotary Scholar at the London
School of Economics, is an expert on international
terrorism who has worked as an economist and foreign
correspondent for Italy's financial papers. She has written
novels and guidebooks in Italian and translated and edited
books on terrorism. Her most recent novel, Dossier Baghdad,
is a financial thriller set during the Gulf War. She was
among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy
after three decades of silence. She is the author of Terror
Incorporated (Seven Stories Press, May 2005).
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