Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: beyond Bin Laden and 9/11
- New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011
- 260p.
*This book answer the question on everyone's lips since the death of Osama bin Laden: Where now for Al-Qaeda?
*The author, a pakistani investigative reporter, has spent years interviewing and analysing yhe new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders behind recent atrocities such as the Mumbai attacks and assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.
*A truly unique book: No other writer can match the author's Level of access to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
President Obama has delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Ladin has been dead for years. This book introduces the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks. Syed Saleem Shahzad has a level of access to Al-Qaeda and the taliban that Western journalists can only dream of. He has interviewed many top-level strategists and fighters in both movements on multiple occasions in iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Jordon. In Inside Al-Qaeda and Taliban he uses first-hand accounts and his own local knowledge to build up a convincing and compelling picture of the aims and motivation of the leaders and fighters in radical Islamic movements. This is a version of the 'war on terror' that has never been told. It will fascinate anyone concerned with the strategy and tactics of the most controversial Islamic movements.