Inside Al Qaeda : global network of terror / Rohan Gunaratna.

Contents: Acknowledgements—Abbreviations—Introduction (p. 1)—1. Who is Osama bin Laden? (p. 16)—2. Al Qaeda's Organisation, ideology and strategy (p. 54)—3. Al Qaeda's gobal network (p. 95)—4. Asia : Al Qaeda's new theatre (p. 167)—5. The Al Qaeda threat and the international response (p. 221)—Notes—Index.

The definitive work on al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, extensive Al Qaeda supported conflict zones across the globe. A study bringing to light Al Qaeda's financial infrastructure and how the organisation trains combat soldiers and vanguard fighters for multiple guerrilla, terrorism and semi conventional campaigns in the middle east, Asia, Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In addition, Rohan Gunaratna investigates the clandestine Al Qaeda operational network in the west, and shows that for Al Qaeda to be destroyed or seriously weakened there needs to be a multipronged, multiagency and multinational response by the international community—cover page.