- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (15 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1850658617
- ISBN-13: 978-1850658610
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 855,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking account of the process by which young men became mujahidin. His description of life inside the Afghan training camps is more complete than any intelligence we had available to us in the 1990s. It indicates a level of professionalism within the camps that we were only able to infer from the fragmentary accounts available to us--and which policymakers dismissed at the time as CIA scare-mongering. As a micro-level description of the whole training process within the camps, Nasiri's account has, I believe, no peer in the publications of the American intelligence community.' -- Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror 'A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiri's memoir offers a unique insider's perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaeda's global jihad.' -- Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, Taliban
Washington Post, 17 November 2006
'the astonishing, well-told story of Omar Nasiri, who penetrated
Al-Qaeda's training camps...makes John le Carre look tame.'
Al-Qaeda's training camps...makes John le Carre look tame.'
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This is a plausible and interesting account of how a western muslim follows the path of muslim faith into extremism and into the famous training camps of afghanistan.
The author did all this in the name of Western Intelligence and yet it is blatantly obvious throughout the book he enjoys his faith, the beliefs and ultimately is often confused about who he is, what he is working for and where his loyalty lies.
If you can take a dispassionate view of the book it is extremely easy to see where the draw and attraction is and what the author discovers is nothing new to any service man and what they discover on joing a military force. The comradship, the shared trials and tribulations , the sense of belonging is all here.
There are also many intersting aspects to this book from the incompetence of the intelligence services to the endless internal muslim conflict amongst factions,sunni etc. and interpretations and support for those beliefs and actions derived from them. The whole section about the wavering support for the brutal GIA in Algeria and the view they have of Iraq and Iran show that not only will they never prevail because of their own never ending internal power struggles but why we will never truly suppress those of the redical muslim faith due to their strong culture of belief. I think this book truly does allow for the reader to understand for the first time the chaos of the Jihad and the types of Jihad and what they mean for the us as westerners. Top Book and a very interesting person. Shame that religion and bigots from both sides have created this world devide. A Must read of any intelligence analyst i would have thought.
The author did all this in the name of Western Intelligence and yet it is blatantly obvious throughout the book he enjoys his faith, the beliefs and ultimately is often confused about who he is, what he is working for and where his loyalty lies.
If you can take a dispassionate view of the book it is extremely easy to see where the draw and attraction is and what the author discovers is nothing new to any service man and what they discover on joing a military force. The comradship, the shared trials and tribulations , the sense of belonging is all here.
There are also many intersting aspects to this book from the incompetence of the intelligence services to the endless internal muslim conflict amongst factions,sunni etc. and interpretations and support for those beliefs and actions derived from them. The whole section about the wavering support for the brutal GIA in Algeria and the view they have of Iraq and Iran show that not only will they never prevail because of their own never ending internal power struggles but why we will never truly suppress those of the redical muslim faith due to their strong culture of belief. I think this book truly does allow for the reader to understand for the first time the chaos of the Jihad and the types of Jihad and what they mean for the us as westerners. Top Book and a very interesting person. Shame that religion and bigots from both sides have created this world devide. A Must read of any intelligence analyst i would have thought.
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