Inside the Global Jihad: How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western

Description: Inside the Global Jihad by Omar Nasiri Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? This book presents the true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raising money, and buying weapons and explosives. The DGSE, Frances foreign espionage arm, recruited Nasiri as an informer - routine, workaday stuff at first, but his talents for dissimulation meant he became increasingly useful to his handlers. After proving himself to his superiors in Paris, they set him a seemingly impossible task: to infiltrate Al Qaedas training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Author Biography Gordon Corera, the BBCs security correspondent, provides an introduction to Omar Nasiris memoir. Review A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiris memoir offers a unique insiders perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaedas global jihad. -- Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, TalibanA terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking account of the process by which young men became mujahidin. His description of life inside the Afghan training camps is more complete than any intelligence we had available to us in the 1990s. It indicates a level of professionalism within the camps that we were only able to infer from the fragmentary accounts available to us--and which policymakers dismissed at the time as CIA scare-mongering. As a micro-level description of the whole training process within the camps, Nasiris account has, I believe, no peer in the publications of the American intelligence community. -- Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIAs Osama bin Laden Unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror Details ISBN1850658617 Author Omar Nasiri Pages 320 Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Year 2006 ISBN-10 1850658617 ISBN-13 9781850658610 Format Hardcover Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Subtitle How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 327.12092 Publication Date 2006-11-15 UK Release Date 2006-11-15 NZ Release Date 2006-11-15 Audience General AU Release Date 2006-11-14 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133535937;

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