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Incitement : Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad
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ISBN: 9780674979505 0674979508 067424687X 0674246918 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad. Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.” By the time he was killed by an American drone strike in 2011, he had become a spiritual leader for thousands of extremists, especially in the United States and Britain, where he aimed to make violent Islamism “as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.” Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens draws on extensive research among al-Awlaki’s former colleagues, friends, and followers, including interviews with convicted terrorists, to explain how he established his network and why his message resonated with disaffected Muslims in the West. A native of New Mexico, al-Awlaki rose to prominence in 2001 as the imam of a Virginia mosque attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers. After leaving for Britain in 2002, he began delivering popular lectures and sermons that were increasingly radical and anti-Western. In 2004 he moved to Yemen, where he eventually joined al-Qaeda and oversaw numerous major international terrorist plots. Through live video broadcasts to Western mosques and universities, YouTube, magazines, and other media, he soon became the world’s foremost English-speaking recruiter for violent Islamism. One measure of his success is that he has been linked to about a quarter of Islamists convicted of terrorism-related offenses in the United States since 2007. Despite the extreme nature of these activities, Meleagrou-Hitchens argues that al-Awlaki’s strategy and tactics are best understood through traditional social-movement theory. With clarity and verve, he shows how violent fundamentalists are born.


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The Global Jihad Movement
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ISBN: 9781442245419 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield

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structure and characteristics of terrorist organizations --- leadership --- command cadre and network structures --- decline of terrorist organizations --- global jihad movement --- the al-Qaeda organization --- global jihad trajectory --- ideological collision --- Afghanistan --- Azzam --- Zawahiri --- global jihad against the West --- the structure of Al-Qaeda --- mobilization --- Al-Qaeda leadership in Iran --- Jemaah Islamiyah of Southeast Asia --- Mantiqi I --- Singapore --- Malaysia --- Thailand --- Mantiqi II --- Indonesia --- Mantiqi III --- Philippines --- Mantiqi IV --- Australia --- funding --- 11 september attacks --- anthrax --- The United States West Coast --- Bali bombing --- Marriott bombing, Jakarta --- Australian Embassy bombing, Jakarta --- Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriot attack 2009 --- Israeli targets in Australia --- El Al flight in Bangkok --- APEC Summit --- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula --- AQAP --- the Yemeni regime --- Yemen --- the Arab Spring --- military power and capabilities --- training camps --- guerilla and terror --- international global jihad activity --- Anwar al-Awlaki influenced groups and individuals --- Nassir al-Wuhaysi --- Abu Bassir al-Yamani --- Saeed al-Shiri --- Qasim al-Rimi --- Abu Huraira al-Sanani --- Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Assiri --- Abdel Bin Abdullah Bin Thabit al-Abbab --- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb --- AQIM --- Lashkar-e-Toyba --- Army of the Pure --- the Taliban --- Jemaah Islamiyah --- Abu Sayyaf Group --- ASG --- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan --- IMU --- Islamic Jihad Union --- IJU --- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group --- LIFG --- the Muslim Bortherhood --- Shabaab al-Mujahidin - Somalia --- Lebanese Hezbollah --- Abdullah Azzam Brigades --- Jaish-e-Mohamed --- Harakat al-Mujahidien --- HUM --- East Turkestan Islamic Movement --- ETIM --- Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas --- Iraq --- Kurds --- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi --- Tawhid Wal Jihad Group --- Ansar al-Islam --- Ansar al-Sunna --- Tanzim Qaidat fi Bilad al-Rafidayn --- exporting terrorist operations from Iraq --- Chechnya --- radical islamist foreign fighters in Chechnya --- the Middle East --- Egypt --- Libya --- Syria --- Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham --- ISIS --- lone wolves --- homegrown cells --- preradicalization --- self-identity --- indoctrination --- Inspire Magazine

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