Fountainhead of jihad :the Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012
Material type: TextPublication details: Gurgaon Hachette 2013Description: x,320p.,8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), mapISBN: 9789350096369Subject(s): Jihad | Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam | Terrorists Haqqani (Organization) AfghanistanDDC classification: 363.325095491 Summary: Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to have been for decades at the centre of a nexus of transnational Islamist militancy, fostering the development of jihadi organisations from Southeast Asia to East Africa. Addressing the abundant new evidence documenting the Haqqani network’s pivotal role in the birth and evolution of the global jihadi movement, the book also represents a significant advance in our knowledge of the history of al-Qaeda, fundamentally altering the picture painted by the existing literature on the subject.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to have been for decades at the centre of a nexus of transnational Islamist militancy, fostering the development of jihadi organisations from Southeast Asia to East Africa.
Addressing the abundant new evidence documenting the Haqqani network’s pivotal role in the birth and evolution of the global jihadi movement, the book also represents a significant advance in our knowledge of the history of al-Qaeda, fundamentally altering the picture painted by the existing literature on the subject.
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