Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror

Rohan Gunaratna

Columbia University Press, Jun 5, 2002 - Political Science - 240 pages

Based on five years of research, it sheds crucial new light on Al Qaeda's role in financing and training terrorists in Asia, Africa, the Caucuses, the Balkans, and the West and assesses the terror network's future in the wake of September 11.

About the author

Rohan Gunaratna is research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and honorary fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel. Previously, he was principal investigator of the United Nations'Terrorism Prevention Branch, and he has served as a consultant on terrorism to several governments and corporations. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, and the University of Notre Dame, and has lectured widely in Latin America,the Middle East, and Asia on terrorism and countermeasures. He is the author of six books on armed conflict.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror
• Author: Rohan Gunaratna
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0231126921, 9780231126922
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Political Freedom; Social Science / General