Reinares Al-Qaeda's Revenge

The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-80140-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

A Spanish best-seller, the definitive report on the people and organization responsible for Spain’s worst experience with modern terror.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reinares, Fernando

Weitere Mitwirkende

Riedel, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Bruce Riedel
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
Part I. The 3/11 Terrorist Network: Origins, Components, and Formation
1. Osama bin Laden's Man in Spain and His Associates
2. From Abu Dahdah's Cell to the 3/11 Network
3. "He swore that the Spanish would pay dearly for his detention": Allekema Lamari and Algerians in the 3/11 Network
4. The Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group and Its Involvement in the 3/11 Network
5. "They moved together while I moved on my own": Mohamed al-Masri in Egypt, Spain, and Italy
6. Common Delinquents Turned into Jihadists: The Final Component of the 3/11 Network
7. How the 3/11 Terrorist Network Formed
Part II. The Al-Qaeda Connection: Revenge, Opportunity, and Strategy
8. "Transforming the tranquillity of the crusaders into a hell": Amer Azizi and the Al-Qaeda Link to 3/11
9. A Meeting in Karachi: Making the Decision to Attack Spain
10. Amer Azizi and the 3/11 Network
11. "Free our prisoners and leave our lands": The 3/11 Attacks and Al-Qaeda's General Strategy
12. "I invoke Allah and ask him to facilitate my martyrdom": Other Facets of the 3/11 Attacks
13. Fleeing to Join Al-Qaeda's Mesopotamian Branch: The Fugitives of the 3/11 Network
14. After the 2004 Madrid Train Bombings: The Fallout in Spain
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando Reinares is director of the Program on Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute, as well as professor of political science and security studies at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, both in Madrid. He coedited, with Bruce Hoffman, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death (Columbia, 2014). He is a Global Fellow of the Wilson Center, where he was a Public Policy Scholar in 2011, and he is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University in Washington.