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INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD. How I Infiltrated al Qaeda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence.
Omar Nasiri
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Hardcover. Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? This book presents the true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raising money, and buying weapons and explosives. The DGSE, France's foreign espionage arm, recruited Nasiri as an informer - routine, workaday stuff at first, but his talents for dissimulation meant he became increasingly useful to his handlers. After proving himself to his superiors in Paris, they set him a seemingly impossible task: to infiltrate Al Qaeda's training camps in Pakistan and ... Read more
Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raising money, and buying weapons and explosives. The DGSE, France's foreign espionage arm, recruited Nasiri as an informer - routine, workaday stuff at first, but his talents for dissimulation meant he became increasingly useful to his handlers. After proving himself to his superiors in Paris, they set him a seemingly impossible task: to infiltrate Al Qaeda's training camps in Pakistan and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850658610
SKU
V9781850658610
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About Omar Nasiri
Gordon Corera, the BBC's security correspondent, provides an introduction to Omar Nasiri's memoir.
Reviews for INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD. How I Infiltrated al Qaeda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence.
A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiri's memoir offers a unique insider's perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaeda's global jihad.
Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, 'Taliban' A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking ... Read more
Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, 'Taliban' A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking ... Read more