Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban : Beyond Bin Laden And 9/11.

Cover -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. A new world: destruction, migration, friends, and foes -- PLAYING WITH FIRE -- AL-QAEDA'S NEW APPROACH -- 2. The politics of war and peace -- NEW AL-QAEDA PLAYERS AND ACTIONS -- THE SPRING OFFENSIVE 2006: AL-QAEDA'S WATERSHED -- THE NEW TALIBAN STRATEGY -- BACK TO BASE -- THE WRATH OF THE UNITED STATES -- SETTING UP THE AF-PAK THEATER OF WAR -- TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN: AL-QAEDA'S BROOD -- IRANIAN JUNDULLAH: AL-QAEDA'S NEW SYNDICATION -- PLANNING NATO'S WATERLOO -- A SWAT WHIRLPOOL SET TO SINK THE AF-PAK STRATEGY -- OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES -- 3. First step: leadership building and transformation of the "sons of the soil" to "blood brothers" -- CAPTAIN KHURRAM, THE MARTYR -- THE RISE AND FALL OF MAJOR HAROON -- ARREST -- MAJOR HAROON 'S IDEOLOGICAL JOURNEY -- THE NEO-TALIBAN IN TALIBAN RANKS -- THE HAQQANI NETWORK: THE TALIBAN'S REAL STRENGTH -- FROM THE SHADOWS TO THE SHADOW ARMY -- AL-QAEDA'S SOUL IN A NEW BODY: LASKHAR AL ZIL -- AL-QAEDA'S BLOOD BROTHERS SAGA: SOMALIA AND YEMEN -- 4. Takfeer and Khuruj: an ideological thesis for the separation of Islamists and states -- THE TAKFEER: ORCHESTRATING A CLASH -- LITERATURE THAT CHANGES THE MIND -- ROOTS OF THE IDEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION -- IBN TAMIYYAH, AN IDEOLOGUE FOR THE NEXT 1,000 YEARS -- 5. Antithesis: debate on the legitimacy of the resistance -- 6. The synthesis -- The beginning of revolt -- 7. Building the eagles' nest -- How the Taliban maneuvered -- An insurgent world in the Hindu Kush -- Tribal insurgency: a battle before the real battle -- Revolution in the mountains -- Al-Qaeda takes steps for broadening ties with Iran -- An amazing maze -- 8. The theater of war -- Ghazwa-e-Hind -- The harvest is ready but … -- Al-Qaeda splits the spoils of war -- Harkat-ul Jihad-i-Islami: from ISI to Al-Qaeda -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Maps -- Index.

An insight into the post-Osama bin Laden generation of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

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