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Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network

"About [Al-Qaida's] operations in Europe, Evan F. Kohlmann has written an illuminating book... Kohlmann is at his best in exhaustively reporting the details of such terrorist episodes. He has compiled prodigious research about the perpetrators and their support networks. Moreover, he never loses sight of the strategy behind the individual attacks... [a] genuine historical analysis."
- Political Science Quarterly (PSQ)

"This book is a pathbreaking piece of research… Kohlmann addresses the issue in unprecedented detail, exploiting a wide variety of available sources to piece together a largely neglected segment of contemporary Bosnian history… [which] provide critical insights into terrorist preferences, motives, and interests… The book… is descriptive and empirically rich."
- Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

"Written by a genuine expert in the subject... this is a lucid and informed account of the involvement of the mujahedin in Bosnia, one that lays the myths to rest... This excellent book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the truth about an episode of the Bosnian war that is so frequently misrepresented by those with a political motive for doing so."
-
Dr. Marko Hoare, History Faculty, University of Cambridge

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Globalterroralert.com Archive
(April 2004 - November 2007)

Pakistan
7/31/04

New Communiqué from "Uzbek Islamic Jihad Movement"
The Islamic Jihad Movement of Uzbekistan has issued a statement taking responsibility for a series of suicide bombings in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The attacks targeted the U.S. and Israeli embassies, as well as the office of a local prosecutor involved in a case against alleged supporters of that group. The communique further warned, "these martyrdom operations that the movement carried out will not stop.” The attacks killed three bystanders.

7/31/04

New Communiqué from "Al-Islambouli Brigades"
A group called the "Al-Islambouli Brigades" has taken credit for an assassination attempt on Pakistani Prime Minister-designate Shaukat Aziz. A suicide bomber exploded at a campaign rally near Fateh Jang, narrowly missing the Prime Minister and killing at least nine others, including Aziz's personal driver. The failed assassination came only hours after the capture of wanted Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Ghailani in the town of Gujrat by Pakistani security forces.

8/2/04

"Al-Islambouli Brigades" Release Second Communiqué
The organization calling itself the "Al-Islambouli Brigades" of Al-Qaida has released its second communique, taking credit for an ambush attack using assault rifles and grenades on a group of Pakistani soldiers traveling in a military vehicle near Khuzdar, about 300 kilometers southwest of the Afghan border city of Quetta. The sudden ambush killed at least six soldiers and civilians, and two others were wounded during the incident.

5/6/05

A Profile of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) - Pakistan
The United Nations has finally announced the designation of the Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba [LET] (a.k.a. "The Army of Medina", "The Army of the Pure and Righteous") under UN resolution 1267 for connections to Al-Qaida, the Taliban, and Usama Bin Laden. Over the past two decades, the virulently anti-American founders of LET--including a well-known Saudi Al-Qaida member--have allowed their organization to serve as a recruiting and training mechanism for foreign terrorists based in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Kashmir--including several American, British, and Australian Muslim converts.

6/8/05

U.S. Citizen Trained at Terror Camp in Pakistan
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a Pakistani-American father and son living in California after the son admitted to attending an alleged Al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan. According to an FBI affidavit filed in the case, the younger man admitted to attending a "jihadist training camp" in Pakistan for six months during 2003-2004. The son allegedly told the FBI that the camp was "run by Al-Qaeda" and that weapons instructors at the camp used photos of "high ranking U.S. political figures"--including President Bush--as suggested targets. Since 2002, several suspected terrorist training camps affiliated with Al-Qaida have surfaced along the Pakistani-Afghan border in Waziristan.  Globalterroralert.com is making available video of one such terror training camp believed located in Waziristan.

 

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