1 February 2012
Drawing on interviews with dozens of jihadi activists as well as diverse documentary materials, this book argues that defeats and disappointments for major jihadi groups in national-level struggles across the Muslim world inspired the rise of Al-Qa’ida and the shift of jihadi focus to a global struggle against the United States and its allies.
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