Book summary

This scholarly and in-depth report on the Al Qaeda network is by a terrorism/counter-terrorism expert who spent five years researching its leadership, structure, and methods. Gunaratna provides a history of the Al Qaeda in the Middle East and elsewhere, and an analysis of its infiltration in the West. He weighs the prospects for uncovering Al Qaeda's clandestine activities, and offers global strategies and responses.

Media reviews

"[Gunaratna's] book is a careful and methodical account of bin Laden's emergence as a leader, and of al-Qaeda cells active around the world. As a handbook, INSIDE AL QAEDA: GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERROR does the work of many tomes, but its chief strength is to be found in Gunaratna's final chapter, where he argues that the political war will be ignored at America's peril."