Brothers in Arms: The Story of Al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists (Paperback)

from sherman1951

While reading "Brothers in Arms" I was reminded of the baseball adage "You can't tell the players without a scorecard." There are dozens of players and teams that are Arab terrorist affiliates. While the US (at least publicly) has focused the war on terror on al-Qa'ida, it would appear that these...

from shadowofthewind

A comprehensive look at Muslim terror cells and movements from Europe to Afghanistan. What's interesting to note is that for some time, these terrorists has the same goals as Western Governments, the toppling of Arab dictators and other occupiers. Getting rid of Libya's Gaddafi, Tunisia's Ben Ali...

from Oberon

Brothers in Arms is a fairly comprehensive primer on Al-Qaeda and its origins in Islamic militant groups that spawned across North Africa. The book focuses more on the disparate groups that arose in Algeria, Libya and Egypt then on Al-Qaeda itself. The failure of those militant groups to topple t...

from spacecommuter

Just as I was nearing the end of this dense, detailed, sometimes exhausting look into the origins of and relationships between the various Middle Eastern terrorist groups that influenced Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Worst timing ever, right? For the author, I mean. Except the...

from kswolff

A lucid investigation of the various threads within the modern Islamist movement. While the media, especially television, is prone to turn Middle Eastern anti-government dissent into a monolith labeled "terrorist," Camille Tawil, an investigative journalist, dissects the various theological and p...