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Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation
By
Loretta Napoleoni
In Insurgent Iraq, Loretta Napoleoni examines the climate in which Iraq\'s most notorious insurgent, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, opened a new front in the modern jihad. With the help of George W. Bush\'s war, al-Zarqawi was able to do what bin Laden could not: spread the message of jihad into Iraq. Arguing that the American adventure in Iraq resuscitated a network rife with conflict and birthed a new generation of post-Cold War mujahedin, the author presents previously unpublished documents from Afghanistan that reveal bitter disagreement between the Egyptian and the Saudi factions of al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. Within this dispute Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a working-class, uneducated Jordanian, emerged to successfully create his own network of Islamist warriors based in Afghanistan, opening up a new front in the modern jihad in Iraq. In Insurgent Iraq, Napoleoni presents a chilling account of the regrouping of terror networks under a new leadership with a new agenda, tracing the ascent of one of the globe\'s most enigmatic and deadly figures. Loretta Napoleoni, a former Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University\'s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, is an expert on international terrorism who has worked as an economist and foreign correspondent for Italy\'s financial papers. She has written novels and guidebooks in Italian and translated and edited books on terrorism. Her most recent novel, Dossier Baghdad, is a financial thriller set during the Gulf War. She was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence. She is the author of Terror Incorporated (Seven Stories Press, May 2005).
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