By Anne Aldis, Graeme Herd
This edited e-book addresses the appropriateness people and different counter-terrorist (CT) techniques in Europe and Eurasia, the center East, the Asia Pacific sector and in Latin the US, so as to bettering their effectiveness.
The ebook has 3 major objectives:
- to think again terrorists' strategic ambitions and resources of legitimacy and the character in their ideological aid
- to research present US and neighborhood CT suggestions and verify their good fortune in de-legitimizing terrorists and undermining their aid
- to offer a strategic synthesis and coverage suggestions in gentle of the examine findings.
This booklet can be of curiosity to scholars of political violence and terrorism, safety reports and diplomacy often.
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Jihad as he saw it was invoked as a religious obligation in defence of Islam and Muslims against a defined enemy, not a speculative one. This is best demonstrated in the Afghan-Soviet war, to which he dedicated his life immediately before his death. Any attempt to speculate beyond this perimeter would be out of proportion. Azzam rejected a proposal by MAK’s Egyptian members – Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri, Abu Hafs alias Muhammed Atef, and subsequently Dr Ayman al Zawahiri – to utilize jihadi funds to train mujahidin in terrorist techniques and tactics.
He declared Western civilization an enemy of Islam and denounced leaders of Muslim nations for not following Islam closely enough. He preached that jihad should be undertaken not just to defend Islam, but to purify Islam. Other contemporary ideologues – Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi, Abu Qatada al Filastini and Abu Hamza al Masri – contributed significantly to al Qaeda’s worldview. As an extension of these ideologies, al Qaeda often couches its grievances in ‘Third Worldist’ terms familiar to any contemporary anti-globalization activist, often framing modern political concerns, including social justice, within a divine and religious narrative.
Al Qaeda’s conviction in political ideology couched in religious terms is therefore not easily swayed by cheap promises and materialistic gains. So long as there is no sincere attempt to meet its demands, al Qaeda will have sufficient support for the continuity of the jihad. In May 1996, after bin Laden moved from Sudan to Afghanistan, he became more violent. He issued a declaration of war against the United States in August 1996. By moving to Afghanistan, he became an internationally recognizable figure with the opportunity to openly present his views.
