Fernando Reinares

In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and discusses the preparations for and fallout from the attacks. Reinares draws on judicial, police, and intelligence documents to which he had privileged access, as well as on personal interviews with officials in Spain and elsewhere. His full analysis links the Madrid bombings to al-Qaeda's senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11. Al-Qaeda's Revenge, Spain's counterpart to The 9/11 Commission Report, was a bestseller in Spain.

The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

Al-Qaeda's Revenge

Bruce Hoffman

Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial direction over jihadist terrorist operations. Through case studies of terrorist acts and offensives occurring both in and outside the West, the volume's contributors investigate al-Qaeda and other related entities as they adapted to the strategies of Operation Enduring Freedom and subsequent U.S.-led global counterterrorism programs. They explore whether Osama bin Laden was indeed reduced to a mere figurehead before his death or continued to influence al-Qaeda's global activities. Did al-Qaeda become a loose collection of individuals and ideas following its expulsion from Afghanistan, or was it reborn as a transnational terrorist structure powered by a well-articulated ideology? What is the preeminent terrorist threat we face today, and what will it look like in the future? This anthology pinpoints the critical patterns and strategies that will inform counterterrorism in the coming decades.

From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death

The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat

A qué obedece el megaterrorismo que se hizo tan dramáticamente manifiesto con los atentados del once de septiembre de 2001? Hasta dónde llegan las redes del fundamentalismo religioso que sustentan semejantes expresiones de violencia globalizada? Qué hay de fantasía y qué de realidad cuando se habla del terrorismo nuclear? Cómo pueden los gobiernos nacionales y la comunidad internacional hacer frente a los inusitados desafíos del terrorismo global? Este libro responde clara y concisamente a esas preguntas, así como a otras no menos inquietantes. Nos introduce, en suma, al conocimiento informado y crítico del cambiante fenómeno que se ha convertido, apenas comenzado el tercer milenio, en una amenaza sin precedentes para el mantenimiento de la seguridad mundial, el pacífico entendimiento entre civilizaciones y la continuidad misma de los regímenes democráticos.

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