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Zarqawi : the new face of al-Qaeda / Jean-Charles Brisard with Damien Martinez.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Polity, [2005]Copyright date: c2005Description: xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745635725
  • 9780745635729
Uniform titles:
  • Zarkaoui, le nouveau visage d'al Qaida. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 956.70443092 BRI 22
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. Genesis of a terrorist: Zarqa and the Zarqawi tribe -- "The green man" -- The great departure -- Return to Jordan -- At Suwaqah, the desert prison. -- Part II. Full-time terrorist: A new departure -- Entering Al-Qaeda -- Origins of the Zarqawi network -- A regional terrorist -- Escape -- Part III. Zarqawi's Iraq -- Terrorist Iraq: from myth to reality -- From the Taliban to Kurdistan -- War leader in Kurdistan -- The confusing stakes in Iran -- Tawhid wal Jihad -- Terror -- The hostage strategy -- Al-Qaeda yields -- Part IV. A global network -- From Kurdistan to Germany -- The group of "Italians" -- Chemical threats to Europe -- A shadow over Madrid -- Syria: rear base -- France in the Islamist trap -- Conclusion: A successor to Bin Laden?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Genesis of a terrorist: Zarqa and the Zarqawi tribe -- "The green man" -- The great departure -- Return to Jordan -- At Suwaqah, the desert prison. -- Part II. Full-time terrorist: A new departure -- Entering Al-Qaeda -- Origins of the Zarqawi network -- A regional terrorist -- Escape -- Part III. Zarqawi's Iraq -- Terrorist Iraq: from myth to reality -- From the Taliban to Kurdistan -- War leader in Kurdistan -- The confusing stakes in Iran -- Tawhid wal Jihad -- Terror -- The hostage strategy -- Al-Qaeda yields -- Part IV. A global network -- From Kurdistan to Germany -- The group of "Italians" -- Chemical threats to Europe -- A shadow over Madrid -- Syria: rear base -- France in the Islamist trap -- Conclusion: A successor to Bin Laden?

Text in English ; translated from the original French.

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