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Chechen Jihad Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror

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ISBN-10: 0060841702

ISBN-13: 9780060841706

Edition: 2007

Authors: Yossef Bodansky

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Yossef Bodansky is a New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most respected and bestinformed experts on radical Islamism in the world today. Now, Bodansky returns to alert readers to the future course the struggle between Islamist extremism and the West by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya, which Bodansky pinpoints as the new crucible of terror in the struggle between east and west. In Chechen Jihad, Bodansky draws on mountains of previously unseen intelligence from his insider sources, to offer the most comprehensive and startling portrait of the Chechenization phenomenon and what it means for the United States and the greater war on terror. As he…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

John P Wilson is a researcher and consultant with 40 years' experience in education and training, including teaching from nursery education to PhD supervision. He also has extensive experience working with a range of international organizations including: the armed forces; aviation; civil service; banking; engineering; healthcare; international development; justice; manufacturing; media; nuclear power generation; national pensions and investment; oil; telecommunications and transportation. He currently teaches at the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield.Yossef Bodansky, author of The Secret History of the Iraq War and the number one New York Times bestseller Bin Laden: The…    

Introduction
Why Should We Care?
Legacy and Roots
Exploiting the Collapse of the Soviet Union
First Steps toward Jihad
The Ascent of Islamist-Jihadist Chechnya
Interlude
Establishing a Terrorist State
Escalating and Waiting
The Slide to Crisis
The Slide to War
The Second Chechen War
War Again
The Internationalization of the Jihad
A "New" War
Money Matters
The Routine of War
Chechnya and the Palestinian Problem
The Chechen Jihad after 9/11
Chechenization in Afghanistan
Moscow Strikes Back in Chechnya
Strikes in Moscow and in Western Europe
The Black Widows
The Road to Beslan
Self-Devouring
Going International
In the Theater of Global Jihad
Pacification in Chechnya, Eruption in the Caucasus
Center Stage in Global Jihad
End Game
Postscript
A Note on Sources and Methods
Acknowledgments
Index