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Its Leadership, Ideology, And Future
Brookings Institution Press
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 0815774141
EAN: 9780815774143
Hardcover
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Several outstanding books have been written about the road
to September 11. The Search for Al Qaeda has a different
mission. While it does review how al Qaeda was created and
developed, it focuses more closely on what has happened to
the terrorist network since that awful day. According to
Riedel, al Qaeda's ultimate goals are to drive America from
the Muslim world (the ummah); to destroy Israel; and to
create a jihadist caliphate along the lines of the Ottoman
Empire at its height. The book reveals al Qaeda's
multi-pronged strategy for accomplishing those goals; draw
America into the type of "bleeding wars" that drove the
Soviets from Afghanistan, build a safe haven for al Qaeda in
Pakistan; develop other "franchises" in the Islamic world
that can overthrow pro-American regimes; and conduct more
Western attacks along the lines of 9-11 or the transit
bombings in Madrid and London. Bruce Riedel is an expert on
the Middle East and South Asia, with 30 years of
policymaking experience in regional diplomacy and
counterterrorism. He draws on this experience and firsthand
knowledge in profiling the four most important figures in
the al Qaeda movement: Osama bin Laden, its creator and
charismatic leader: ideologue Ayman al-Zawahiri, the
Egyptian co-leader of al Qaeda and its principal spokesman;
Abu Musaib al Zarqawi, the tenacious leader of al Qaeda in
Iraq until his death in 2006; and Mullah Omar, Taliban host
to al Qaeda. These profiles provide the base from which
Riedel delivers a much clearer understanding of al Qaeda and
what must be done to counter it.
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