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Название: WESTERN JIHADISM.
Автор: JYTTE KLAUSEN
Аннотация:
Al Qaeda, the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization, was
founded in August 1988 at a meeting that Osama Bin Laden convened
in his house in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Al Qaeda did not start in Saudi Arabia,
as is often thought.) He wanted to create a rapid deployment force of experienced fighters for the armed jihad, to be commanded by himself and a
small cadre of veteran jihadist revolutionaries. The movement that Bin
Laden initiated in his sitting room, in exile, ballooned into a global movement of political cadres, public intellectuals and street preachers, military
fighter brigades, and webmasters waging online jihad. Decades later, the
movement that Bin Laden started is operating on five continents and
includes an estimated 100,000 armed fighters in Asia and Africa. The
number is based on reporting by the analytical support team of the
United Nations Security Council’s ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions
Committee, and analyses by independent researchers. A report from 2018
by the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated the number
of active Al Qaeda-aligned fighters to be closer to 250,000, 270% higher
than in 2001 at the time of the 9/11 attacks.1 No one really knows precisely
how many there are