by Yossef BodanskyFrom the publisher:
Yossef Bodansky is a New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most respected – and best–informed – experts on radical Islamism in the world today. Now, Bodansky returns to alert readers to the future course the struggle between Islamist extremism and the West – by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya, which Bodansky pinpoints as the new crucible of terror in the struggle between east and west.
In Chechen Jihad, Bodansky draws on mountains of previously unseen intelligence from his insider sources, to offer the most comprehensive – and startling – portrait of the Chechenization phenomenon and what it means for the United States and the greater war on terror. As he reveals, the final years of US–Soviet relations left Chechnya as a fertile breeding ground for the mujahadin, and in the past decade a combination of militant native Chechen anti–Americans, anti–Russian agitators, and Middle Eastern jihadis have joined forces to help al Qaeda and the greater Islamist movement pursue its war against the west.
Yossef Bodansky has been the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for more than a decade. He is the longtime director of research at the International Strategic Studies Association and senior editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of publications. Bodansky has been a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, as well as a former senior consultant for the U.S. departments of Defense and State. The author of the number one New York Times bestseller Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, he makes his primary home in Washington, D.C., and travels extensively to the Middle East and around the world.
