AL QAEDA

Ideal for both students of terrorism and general readers wanting to better understand modern terrorism, this book provides an in-dep th look at Al Qaeda, including its origins, evolution, doctrines, structure, and terrorist operations. The authors examine Al Qaeda' s operational transitions over the last two decades, and consider these changes in terms of the impact of the Internet, the viciousn ess of the violence employed, the leverage of colonial past, and the subsequent international implications.