The evolution of the global terrorist threat : from 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's death /
The evolution of the global terrorist threat : from 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's death /
edited by Bruce Hoffman and Fernando Reinares.
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 677 pages).
- Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare .
Includes bibliographies and index.
part I. In the West. The evolution of the post-9/11 threat to the U.S. homeland / The 2004 Madrid train bombings / Operation crevice in London / Dhiren Barot and Operation Rhyme / The Van Gogh murder and beyond / Leadership and the Toronto 18 / Operation Pendennis in Australia / The 7 July 2005 London bombings / The 2006 airline plot / The foiled attacks in Italy in 2006 / The German "Sauerland" plot, central Asia, and Turkey / The Danish Glasvej case / The January 2008 suicide bomb plot in Barcelona / Ansar al-Fatah and "Iraqi" networks in France / part II. Outside the West. Al-Qaeda terrorism in Afghanistan / Attacks of al-Jemaah al-Islamiyah in southeast Asia / The Mombassa attacks of November 28, 2002 / The origins of sectarian terrorism in Iraq / The November 2003 Istanbul bombings / The Sinai terrorist attacks / Comparing the 2003 and 2007 incidents in Casablanca / The 2007 suicide attacks in Algiers / The 2003 Riyadh and 2008 Sanaa bombings / The 2008 Mumbai attack / The 2010 suicide attacks in Kampala / Lorenzo Vidino -- Fernando Reinares -- Peter R. Neumann and Ryan Evans -- Lindsay Clutterbuck -- Beatrice de Graaf -- Stewart Bell -- Sally Neighbour -- Bruce Hoffman -- Paul Cruickshank -- Javier Jordán -- Guido Steinberg -- Michael Taarnby -- Fernando Reinares -- Jean-Pierre Filiu -- Seth G. Jones -- Rohan Gunaratna -- Jonathan Fighel -- Mohammed M. Hafez -- Guido Steinberg and Philipp Holtmann -- Holly L. McCarthy and Ami Pedahzur -- Jack Kalpakian -- Anneli Botha -- Thomas Hegghammer -- C. Christine Fair -- Anneli Botha.
Examining each major terrorist act and campaign of the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars launch original studies of the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work relays the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial and sustained control over terrorist opera.
9780231537438
Terrorism--History--21st century.
Jihad--History--21st century.
Electronic Books.
HV6432 / .E965 2014
Includes bibliographies and index.
part I. In the West. The evolution of the post-9/11 threat to the U.S. homeland / The 2004 Madrid train bombings / Operation crevice in London / Dhiren Barot and Operation Rhyme / The Van Gogh murder and beyond / Leadership and the Toronto 18 / Operation Pendennis in Australia / The 7 July 2005 London bombings / The 2006 airline plot / The foiled attacks in Italy in 2006 / The German "Sauerland" plot, central Asia, and Turkey / The Danish Glasvej case / The January 2008 suicide bomb plot in Barcelona / Ansar al-Fatah and "Iraqi" networks in France / part II. Outside the West. Al-Qaeda terrorism in Afghanistan / Attacks of al-Jemaah al-Islamiyah in southeast Asia / The Mombassa attacks of November 28, 2002 / The origins of sectarian terrorism in Iraq / The November 2003 Istanbul bombings / The Sinai terrorist attacks / Comparing the 2003 and 2007 incidents in Casablanca / The 2007 suicide attacks in Algiers / The 2003 Riyadh and 2008 Sanaa bombings / The 2008 Mumbai attack / The 2010 suicide attacks in Kampala / Lorenzo Vidino -- Fernando Reinares -- Peter R. Neumann and Ryan Evans -- Lindsay Clutterbuck -- Beatrice de Graaf -- Stewart Bell -- Sally Neighbour -- Bruce Hoffman -- Paul Cruickshank -- Javier Jordán -- Guido Steinberg -- Michael Taarnby -- Fernando Reinares -- Jean-Pierre Filiu -- Seth G. Jones -- Rohan Gunaratna -- Jonathan Fighel -- Mohammed M. Hafez -- Guido Steinberg and Philipp Holtmann -- Holly L. McCarthy and Ami Pedahzur -- Jack Kalpakian -- Anneli Botha -- Thomas Hegghammer -- C. Christine Fair -- Anneli Botha.
Examining each major terrorist act and campaign of the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars launch original studies of the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work relays the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial and sustained control over terrorist opera.
9780231537438
Terrorism--History--21st century.
Jihad--History--21st century.
Electronic Books.
HV6432 / .E965 2014