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Middle East Affiliate Groups & The Next Generation of Terror
Washington Square Press
October 2004
On Sale: October 1, 2004
224 pages
ISBN: 156171884X
EAN: 9781561718849
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Non-Fiction Political
Al-Qaeda still threatens the West despite the fact that
thousands of its fighters have been killed or captured.
Attacks continue, even as Usama bin Laden and his top
lieutenants hide in distant caves. The terror network’s
resiliency lies in the existence of "affiliate groups."
Numbering more than two-dozen worldwide, these groups
maintain operatives from al-Qaeda’s training camps and
battlefields. They are local and autonomous, but fight in
the name of al-Qaeda’s global jihad. Using never-before
published material, Arabic language sources, and personal
interviews from the Middle East, Schanzer examines
affiliates in Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Yemen and Iraq. The
author also shares research from a fact-finding mission in
Iraq, where he interviewed al-Qaeda fighters and one of
Saddam Hussein’s former intelligence officers.
Fighting affiliate groups will likely be the next
challenge in the war on terror. Schanzer provides a field
guide to al-Qaeda’s Middle East armies and explores what it
will take to successfully combat them.
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