TITLE:
Al-Qaeda : casting a shadow of terror / Jason Burke.
By:
Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
London : I.B. Tauris,
Physical Description:
292 p. : maps.
Summary:
On a hot summer's day in 1996 a plane carrying Osama bin Laden and a few friends and family landed just outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. The Saudi-born Islamic activist had little equipment, few followers and minimal local support. Yet within five years he had built an organization that was to carry out the most shocking and devastating terrorist attack in history.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781850433965
