AlQaida after 911 by Anne Likuski PAPERBACK 9780755648573

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Al-Qaida after 9/11The War on Terror and the Decade of Demise\nAuthor(s): Anne Likuski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9780755648573, 978-0755648573\nSynopsis\nHow did the War on Terror impact Al-Qaida in the decade after 9/11? This is the first book to analyse the inner workings of the group through the eyes of its mid-level leaders in Pakistan, who were, in practice, running al-Qaidas affairs when communications with Osama bin Laden were slow or absent.\n\nThe book relies on a large collection of little-known Arabic primary sources about al-Qaida, including the Abbottabad documents - the groups own, internal communications between [tel]. Al-Qaidas performance is assessed in three areas: the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq; and international terrorism. Chapters explain why the groups contributions to the Afghan war were modest, shows the reasons for Al-Qaidas inability to influence events in Iraq, and chart.