CNN's terrorism analyst examines Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, al-Queda, discussing its operations and mission, the planning and execution of specific terrorist acts, and future threats from militant Islamic movements.

Bruce Hoffman The Atlantic Monthly Unusually astute....Holy War, Inc. shines [with] Bergen's insight into bin Laden's mind-set and behavior....Required reading for anyone seeking to understand him.

Autorentext

Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.

Klappentext

Bergen has produced the definitive book on the Jihadist network that operates globally and in secrecy. He has interviewed scores of insiders--from bin Laden associates and family members to Taliban leaders to CIA officials--and traveled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom to learn the truth about bin Laden's al Queda organization and his mission.

Zusammenfassung
On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of the few Western journalists to have interviewed bin Laden face-to-face, Bergen has produced the definitive book on the global Jihadist network, revealing:

How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells."
How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world.
How the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen were planned and executed.
What we can expect from Islamic extremists in the future.

Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a corporation that has exploited modern technology and weaponry in the service of global terrorism and the destruction of the West.
Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Inhalt

Contents

Note from the Author

Prologue

How to Find the World's Most Wanted Man

Chapter 1

While America Slept

Chapter 2

The Afghan Jihad: The Making of a Holy Warrior

Chapter 3

Blowback: The CIA and the Afghan War

Chapter 4

The Koran and the Kalashnikov: Bin Laden's Years in Sudan

Chapter 5

From the Peaks of the Hindu Kush: The Declaration of War

Chapter 6

Investigation and Retaliation: The Embassy Bombings

Chapter 7

The American Connection: From Brooklyn to Seattle

Chapter 8

True Believers: The Taliban and Bin Laden

Chapter 9

The Holy Warriors of Yemen: The Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole

Chapter 10

The Global Network: Around the World in Eighty Jihads

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index