Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond 9/11
Author(s): Syed Saleem Shahzad
Journalists from around the world have endlessly attempted to analyse what drives Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders and fighters. Syed Saleem Shahzad is the only one to have gone to their strongholds and asked them. Shahzad, a Pakistani investigative reporter, 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 Jordan. In Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban he uses first-hand accounts and his own local knowledge to build up a picture of their aims and motivation. 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.
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Syed Saleem Shahzad is an investigative reporter with unparalleled access to leaders and fighters in Islamic movements. He has been both a hostage and a guest of the Taliban, giving him insight into its workings that no other journalist can match. His work has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique and Asia Times Online. In May 2011, Syed Saleem Shahzad was abducted and killed in Pakistan. This occurred days after writing an article suggesting that insiders in the Pakistani navy had colluded with Al-Qaeda in an attack on a naval air station.
General Fields
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- : Palgrave Macmillan
- : Palgrave Macmillan
- : 0.373
- : 01 June 2011
- : 214mm X 135mm X 16mm
- : 01 July 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Syed Saleem Shahzad
- : Paperback
- : 363.325
- : 272
