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Format: Bargain Price Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: June 03, 2003 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Dated, But Still Good Background....2003's "Inside Al Qaeda" is the third edition of Rohan Gunaratna's extensive investigation of Osama bin Laden's extremist Islamic terrorist group. "Inside Al Qaeda" provides much detailed background information on the origins and history of al Qaeda. It documents how al Qaeda (AQ) organized and manipulated a global network of associated Jihadists to conduct terrorism around the planet. Gunaratna opens with a biographical sketch of Osama bin Laden. He devotes a long chapter to a ... Read More Rating:  - Good Overview Rohan Gunaratna scrutinizes this worldwide terrorist organization and its theater of operations country by country. He examines Al Qaeda's reach, strategic and tactical threat, mind-set, and messianic culture. There are some suggestions of ways given on ways that the international community could counter this movement. The book is written based on five years or interviews, research, and travel. Rating: - Informative with one major omission..Where's KSM? The book overlooks Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the uncle of Ramzi Yousef, leader in the 1993 WTC bombing. There's no mention of his emergence into global terrorism, his efforts with Yousef in the Philippines (Project Bojinka, 1995) and his masterminding of the 9/11 attacks. Perhaps the revised version includes him? Rating:  - I had a class with Rohan Gunaratna...Of course we had to read this book for the class, but for those of you who doubt his knowledge, let me just say this. There is no, and I mean no American who has the knowledge about Al Qaeda as Dr. Gunaratna has. That is why he was a debriefer for the CIA, he questioned Bin Laden's pilot, and also the former head of Al Qeada's Anthrax program, yes they had an Anthrax program. This book isnt writen by some guy listening to others, this is writen by a guy who was living it. I advise all of you, who ... Read More Rating: - A basic description of current eventsI read this book in the summer of 2003. At the time it was probably the first book I read on the Al Qaeda and violent Islamic fundamentalism. I was initially impressed with the references, even though they interrupted the flow of the book and made it read more like a textbook. Since then every other book on the Al Qaeda and/or violent modern day jihadists has been more informative, both in the areas of description and in thought provoking conjecture and predictions. 
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