Understanding terror networks / Marc Sageman.

Collection type	Library
Author	Sageman, Marc.;
Call Number	303.625 S129
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2004.
Pagination	ix, 220 p. ;24 cm.
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press,
Note	Includes index. Bibliography, p. 193-212. "For decades, a new type of terrorism has been quietly gathering ranks in the world. American ability to remain oblivious to these new movements ended on September 11, 2001. The Islamist fanatics in the global Salafi jihad (the violent, revivalist socialmovement of which al Qaeda is a part) target the West, but their operations mercilessly slaughter thousands of people of all races and religions throughout the world. Marc Sageman challenges conventional wisdom about terrorism, observing that the key to m ounting an effective defense against future attacks is a thorough understanding of the networks that allow these new terrorists to proliferate.". "Based on study of biographical data on 172 participants in the jihad, Understanding Terror Networks gives us the first social explanation of the global wave of activity. Sageman traces its roots in Egypt, gestation in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war, exile in the Sudan, and growth of branches worldwide, including detailed accounts of life within the Hamburg and Montreal cells that planned attacks on the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	Philadelphia

Abstract

1. The origins of the jihad -- 2. The evolution of the jihad -- 3. The mujahedin -- 4. Joining the jihad -- 5. Social networks and the jihad -- App. Names of terrorists.