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1.The Al Qaeda Reader from: Broadway August 07, 2007
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This very well researched and documented book is a must for those who need to understand current conflicts.

2.Milestones by: Sayed Qutb July 31, 2006
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One could easily argue that Sayyid Qutb's 1950s era treatise "Milestones" is the most influential and historically far-reaching Islamic text written in the past century. Qutb's work - and "Milestones" above all else - created the philosophical foundation upon which Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups have been built. For anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of what motivates relatively well-educated, affluent and presumably sane young men to fly passenger jets into skyscrapers there is no better place to begin than here. Milestones is meant to a be a handbook for a vanguard of "true Muslims" ready and willing to fulfill God's plan for humanity - a plan that was clearly elucidated and even demonstrated in Medina under Mohammed in the late seventh century. Qutb forcefully ... Read More

3.The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge Middle East Studies) by: Fawaz A. Gerges September 05, 2005
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The term Jihad is based on the Qur'an saying "...you who believe fight the unbelievers who are near to you." In practice this has been interpreted to mean defending Islam, including the Shari'a (Islamic Law), against internal and external threats. This interpretation has produced the concepts of the `near enemy' that is threats from within the realm of Islam (Dar al Islam) usually from secular or apostate rulers and the `far enemy' that is threats to Islam from non-Islamic States such as those of the West or Israel. This is a way of introducing this most important book by Fawz A. Gerges. Its central thesis is that the concept of Jihad is far from monolithic, but has splintered into many separate movements with very different agendas. According to Gerges these include a relatively small ... Read More

4.His Own Words: A Translation of the Writings of Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri by: Laura Mansfield July 17, 2006
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An excellent compilation of the writings of Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's "second in command". A must read for all tasked with defending our nation from the dangerous threat of Global Jihad, and those who have an interest in understanding our enemies.

5.The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by: Lawrence Wright August 21, 2007
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I once asked a professor what he thought about DeLillo's book Falling Man, and his response was that, "It just isn't what America needs right now." At the time, I remember being exasperated by such a political response from a professor of liberal arts, but after reading this book, I can see what he meant. The Looming Tower is what America needs right now. What struck me first when I opened it was how quickly I was able to read through it. Non-fiction books are often daunting, boring, heavy-handed, or badly written, but this book is proof that those don't have to be flaws of the genre. Take a look in the back of the book at the number of books Wright went through in research, and how many people he interviewed, and you'll get a feel for why this book feels so real. Every character ... Read More

6.Understanding Terror Networks by: Marc Sageman April 16, 2004
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2004's "Understanding Terror Networks" is a detailed look at al-Qaeda and its associated networks, the new Mujahedin of radical Islam. Author Marc Sageman is a Doctor of Psychiatry and Sociology, with intelligence and foreign service experience in the effort to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980's. Using open source data, he examines a large sampling of information on individual terrorists to determine what makes them tick and how they network. The end result is far more useful than the anecdote-based journalism that fills bookstores. Sageman documents that the typical Islamic terrorist is a young man from a loving middle class family, often well-educated, who becomes alienated through work or study in a foreign country or even a large city in the Middle East. He reaches out to fellow Muslims, typically ... Read More

7.Osama Bin Laden: America's Enemy in His Own Words from: Nadeem Publishing 2005-08
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Somewhere, Mao said that it was critical to know your enemies. Such knowledge is an important step in defeating them. Hence, as Osama Bin Laden has named himself an enemy of the United States and many other countries, we ought to know him. The author, Randall Hamud, emphasizes that we need to be pretty hard eyed about this man. In his words (page 196) ". . .he is neither a nihilist nor a madman." To think along those lines is to ignore his strengths--and weaknesses. This volume does its job well, even though readers may well disagree mightily with the author's conclusion in his "Epilogue." His disappointment with American policy toward the Islamic world--and especially Iraq--is manifest. He notes that he is (page xxx) ". . .very pessimistic about the prosecution of the war on terrorism." The Introduction is quite ... Read More

8.Social Justice in Islam by: Sayyid Qutb January 01, 2000
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Social Justice and Islam confounds many prevalent prejudices about both Sayyid Qutb and Islam. The book, written after Qutb's sojourn in the United States, contains a sharp critique of sexual harassment and the commodification of women. The book explores the political implications of the Muslim practice of zakat. Zakat is ordinarily viewed as a form of charity, a type of alms for the poor. Qutb argues that zakat, properly understood, provides a means for rectifying the imbalances and momentary instabilities of the market while preserving private property and commerce; enables the protection and just distribution of common goods, and provides both principles and practices that secure social welfare without breeding dependency or diminishing human dignity. The most illuminating aspect of the book is the recognition of the importance of human dignity to economic ... Read More

9.The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader by: Peter Bergen August 08, 2006
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well, not this book actually, but a related book by Bergen's colleague Parag Khanna titled The Second World. Some of the various, and numerous, factual errors that riddle the book are relatively trivial, but suggest serious sloppiness and disregard for getting facts right. For example, Yugoslavia was not part of Warsaw pact, as Khanna states. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was appointed to office in 1992 by Boris Yeltsin, and not by Vladimir Putin. Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Albania are not all smaller by population than Manhattan, and the death toll from the civil wars in former Yugoslavia was not greater than half a million. Other obviously wrong assertions seem to be made up simply to provide lurid background color to Khanna's travelogue: the former KGB headquarters in Moscow has not been turned into "a high-class disco," expensive Moscow malls ... Read More

10.Inside Terrorism by: Bruce Hoffman May 12, 2006
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This book has a lot of information, however it is outdated due to many recent occurrences of terroism that has happened since this book dated back in 1996. Bruce Hoffman is a excellent author, please get the updated version, 2006.

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