The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda

In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A. Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. In The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Fawaz Gerges, a public intellectual known widely in the academe and media for his expertise on radical ideologies, including jihadism, argues that the Western powers have become mired in a "terrorism narrative," stemming from the mistaken belief that America is in danger of a devastating attack by a crippled Al-Qaeda. To explain why Al-Qaeda is no longer a threat, he provides a briskly written history of the organization, showing its emergence from the disintegrating local jihadist movements of the mid-1990s-not just the Afghan resistance of the 1980s, as many believe-in "a desperate effort to rescue a sinking ship by altering its course." During this period, Gerges interviewed many jihadis, gaining a first-hand view of the movement that bin Laden tried to reshape by internationalizing it. He reveals that transnational jihad has attracted but a small minority within the Arab world and possesses no viable social and popular base. Furthermore, he shows that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a major miscalculation--no "river" of fighters flooded from Arab countries to defend Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, as bin Laden expected. The democratic revolutions that swept the Middle East in early 2011 show that al-Qaeda today is a non-entity which exercises no influence over Arabs' political life.Gerges shows that there is a link between the new phenomenon of homegrown extremism in Western societies and the war on terror, particularly in Afghanistan-Pakistan, and that homegrown terror exposes the structural weakness, not strength, of bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Gerges concludes that the movement has splintered into feuding factions, neutralizing itself more effectively than a Predator drone. Forceful, incisive, and written with extensive inside knowledge, this book will alter the debate on global terrorism. Oxford University Press 2011 Enjoy and Seed!!

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ramikaz (2011-10-11)

Such groups are born out of the imperial/colonial/terrorist policies of the USA, Israel, and the former USSR. AQ succeeded in it's main goal, to bankrupt the USA and by looking at the US spending on "counter"-terrorism, National "Defence", and "aid" to terrorist countries like Egypt and Israel, the work of AQ is still and will continue to be done looooooong after it is gone.
When the USA is completely bankrupt, likely within the next 20 years, there will be much more peace in the world and countries/leaders that rely on US Taxpayer welfare to survive like Israel and Mubarak, will disappear like a farts in the wind.

jjaworsk (2011-10-11)

As always, who can possibly fault your logic, a Prince among men - an illuminary of eloquence- a master debater. It's disgusting that Mubarak (damned CryptoJew) is still kept in power by the American taxpayer(que???).
BTW are you still seeding 'The Satanic Verses' as you promised in :-

You were such an inspiration to me in that post that I decided to join you and keep seeding it too.
People will eventually come to see that it is visionaries like yourself that will shape the future - a bit like 'Planet of the Apes'.
TaTa for now!!

beowoulfe (2011-10-11)

@ramikaz
Sore loser?

ramikaz (2011-10-12)

^ U R A jew, 'nuff said.

neelnt (2012-12-18)

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