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    The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future

    By Bruce Riedel

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    Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaedathe origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy of the terrorist network that brought down the Twin Towers and continues to threaten us today.

    Bruce Riedel draws on decades of insider experiencehe was actually in the White House during the September 11 attacksin profiling the four most important figures in the al Qaeda movement: Usama bin Laden, ideologue and spokesman Ayman Zawahiri, former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Musaib al Zarqawi (killed in 2006), and Mullah Omar, its Taliban host. These profiles provide the base from which Riedel delivers a much clearer understanding of al Qaeda and its goals, as well as what must be done to counter and defeat this most dangerous menace.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrookings Institution Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9780815704522
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    Bruce Riedel

    Bruce Riedel is senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project. He joined Brookings following a thirty-year career at the CIA. His previous books include The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future; Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad; and Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back.

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      I tag this as world politics because war is a subset of politics and to deal with this problem we need to do so at the highest level.The author led an Afghanistan policy review for the Obama administration.