After Bin Laden - Brossura

Abdel Bari Atwan

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ISBN 10: 0863564194 ISBN 13: 9780863564192

Casa editrice: Saqi Books, 2012

Riassunto

Osama bin Laden is dead but al-Qa'ida remains the CIA's 'number one threat'. With branches in strategic hotspots from Yemen and Somalia to North Africa and an increasing influence among 'home grown jihadis' in the West, journalist and al-Qa'ida expert Abdel Bari Atwan investigates how the organisation has survived all attempts to destroy it. Al-Qa'ida after bin Laden has expanded its reach by cementing new alliances and exploiting the opportunities regional turmoil affords. The Arab Spring has opened new battlegrounds for jihadists, particularly in Libya, the Sahel, Syria and Egypt. As the extremist zeal for a global caliphate shows no sign of abating, Atwan profiles the next generation of foot soldiers and leaders and explores the new methods they embrace in the pursuit of jihad in a digital age.

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"One of the sharpest commentators about al-Qa ida and the Middle East ... Atwan's sobering assessment deserves a wide audience. --Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt: from 9/11 to Abbottabad, The Ten-Year Search for Osama bin Laden

Atwan captures the essence of Osama bin Laden, the man, his leadership, and why we will never be free of the legacy he left behind. Intelligent and fascinatingly readable. --Pat Lancaster, Editor-in-Chief, Middle East Magazine

The book we ve been waiting for since Abbotabad. Here is painstaking research by a thoughtful investigator; intelligent, readable analysis that cuts through the DC rhetoric. Despite all those drone attacks, Al-Qaeda is on the come back. --Paul McGeough, author of Killing Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas

Thank heavens that we have Arab writers such as Abdel Bari Atwan who knew the real Bin Laden better than any other journalist. --Robert Fisk, Independent

An extraordinarily gifted, experienced and knowledgeable analyst of Arab affairs ... this is essential reading. --Dame Ann Leslie DBE

"An insightful book on Al Qaeda today and tomorrow by one of the Arab world's most renowned journalists. After Bin Laden is crucial to understanding how al Qaeda used the Arab awakening to strike back after bin Laden's death." --Bruce Riedel, author of The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future

"This absorbing survey does much to disen¬tangle the many strands of the group that exist today ... After Bin Laden is a useful primer for anyone in need of a non-technical and readable introduction to most of those al-Qaeda-affiliated groups at work in the world today, as well as a valuable aide mémoire for those more familiar with the material that lies beyond these pages. ... Atwan is a journalist with a proven track record in covering al-Qaeda (he interviewed Bin Laden twice), and his work in this field remains important. In After Bin Laden, he has produced a solid, book-length piece of journalism that is a compelling read from first to last." --Eamonn Gearon, Middle East Policy

"An insightful book on Al Qaeda today and tomorrow by one of the Arab world's most renowned journalists. After Bin Laden is crucial to understanding how al Qaeda used the Arab awakening to strike back after bin Laden's death." --Bruce Riedel, author of The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future

"This absorbing survey does much to disen¬tangle the many strands of the group that exist today ... After Bin Laden is a useful primer for anyone in need of a non-technical and readable introduction to most of those al-Qaeda-affiliated groups at work in the world today, as well as a valuable aide mémoire for those more familiar with the material that lies beyond these pages. ... Atwan is a journalist with a proven track record in covering al-Qaeda (he interviewed Bin Laden twice), and his work in this field remains important. In After Bin Laden, he has produced a solid, book-length piece of journalism that is a compelling read from first to last." --Eamonn Gearon, Middle East Policy

L'autore

Abdel Bari Atwan was Editor-in-Chief at the London-based newspaper, Al Quds al-Arabi, which he edited for the twenty years. Atwan interviewed Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s and has cultivated uniquely well-placed sources from within the various branches of al-Qa ida over the last fifteen years. His other works include 'The Secret History of al-Qa ida' and 'A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page' (both published by Saqi Books).

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• Editore: Saqi Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0863564194
• ISBN 13: 9780863564192
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 307