At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No.1. The significance of militant Islam's growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering of Muslims worldwide was missed until it was too late. In Rise of Islam Anthony Tucker-Jones examines from an insider's perspective hoe Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global Jihad. The 9/11 attack provoked a ?War on Terror' which has yet to fully curb the threat of global Jihad or bring ringleader Osama bin Laden to justice. Anthony Tucker-Jones, who served in the Defence Intelligence Staff, the British Ministry of Defence's top intelligence assessment organization, gained an unparalleled insider's view of the growing war on terror and how the West's intelligence agencies were wrong footed at almost every turn. He traces the rise of international terrorism and its networks throughout the Muslim world, in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Algeria, Chechnya, Somalia and across the Middle East, and he uncovers the connections between them. He shows how the key to the growth of Al Qaeda as a global terrorist organization was not only the emergence of Osama bin Laden, but also the growing understanding of asymmetrical warfare which the CIA had taught anti-Soviet Jihadists in Afghanistan in the 1980s. AUTHOR: Anthony Tucker-Jones studied history at Portsmouth University and gained his MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Lancaster University. After a career in the intelligence community he became a freelance defence consultant and a prolific writer on military, intelligence, counter-terrorism, military aviation and naval affairs. He has been widely published in AirForces Monthly, Air International, Aviation News, Warships International Fleet Review, and other publications devoted to modern warfare and defence studies. SELLING POINTS: ?Intelligence insider's view of the growth of global Jihad ?Traces the development of ?franchise terrorism' across the world ?hechnya, Afghanistan and across the Middle East ?Reassesses the role of Osama bin Laden ILLUSTRATIONS 30 photos *
