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American JihadistsHundreds of American citizens have traveled to foreign lands and taken up arms in the name of a radical vision of Islam. Who are they? Why do they choose this path? What are their ambitions for America? And how serious is the threat they represent?Terrorism expert J.M. Berger will tell their stories in a 2011 release from Potomac Books, which chronicles the path of American jihadists from the 1970s until the present. Americans have taken part in every major conflict in the modern age of jihadism, and in nearly every major Islamic terrorist attack on U.S. interests since 1979. There have always been American citizens at the very top level of Al Qaeda, from its founding to the present. The links below provide a glimpse at just a few of these individuals. For the latest news on American Jihadists, check the INTELWIRE.com news site. For updates on the book and documentary, check AmericanJihadists.com. American Jihadists
 Adam Gadahn Aafia Siddiqi Ali A. Mohamed Anwar Aulaqi Bryant Neal Vinas Daniel Boyd
Daniel Maldonado John Walker Lindh Jose Padilla Luqman Al-Amin Abdullah Abu Mansour Al Amriki Najibullah Zazi Nidal Malik Hasan Tarek Mehanna |
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From a counterterrorism perspective, it's vital to understand how al Qaeda's sleeper cells operate on U.S. soil. Al Qaeda in America contains more than 400 pages of detailed accounts describing the tactics and activities of nearly a dozen al Qaeda and al Qaeda-linked agents operating on U.S. soil, most of whom are American citizens. Documents include Grand Jury testimony, sworn FBI affidavits, FBI interrogation records, indictments and trial memorandums, and exclusive original analysis of al Qaeda's post-9/11 sleeper capacity by editor J.M. Berger.
From the near-mainstream Muslim Brotherhood to the dreaded Takfir Wal Hijra, this volume provides a stunning and expansive history of Egypt's varied Islamic fundamentalist and extremist movements. Broad historical context meets detailed individual profiles in a series of accounts. Included among these declassified State Department cables are a history of the Muslim Brotherhood, a "guide to the Gama'at," profiles of individual sheikhs and political leaders, and intelligence reports concerning the structure and organization of "blind shiekh" Omar Abdel Rahman's The Islamic Group (Gama'at Islamiyya).
Ali Mohamed is a terrorist without peer. He trained al Qaeda's most lethal operatives and literally wrote the book on how to run a sleeper cell operation. And he practiced what he preached -- infiltrating the U.S. Army, compromising a CIA undercover operation and acting as an FBI informant for years -- even as he helped plan and execute the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 East African Embassy bombings. All the while, he was creating an underground network of terrorist resources that would be used to accomplish the September 11 attacks. His story is required reading for counterterrorism officials. Mohamed's sobering tale shows just what al Qaeda's top operatives are capable of.
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat is one of the seminal events in the modern War on Terror, along with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Siege on Mecca (see below) in 1979. This Sourcebook offers a moment by moment account of the killing, U.S. and international reaction, the suspects and the political climate in the aftermath of the event. 
Controversy surrounds the figure of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. A brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, he was accused of being an al Qaeda financier, yet no one ever successfully convicted him of a crime. He was arrested in the United States in 1994 and deported in 1995 under mysterious circumstances. In 2007, he was assassinated -- just days after U.S. officials received intelligence from INTERPOL concerning his status as part of a project to exploit information from captured terror suspects. To his dying day, he denied all involvement in terrorism -- and some of the leading journalists covering al Qaeda believed him. This collection of documents includes exclusive original reporting by INTELWIRE's J.M. Berger, who broke the INTERPOL story and revealed for the first time that Khalifa was placed in maximum security lockdown in a California prison after the Oklahoma City bombing. Exclusive documents in this volume also reveal new information about his deportation and how U.S. officials maintained a hold on him after he left the country. Documents from this collection were used as part of "Killing Abu Baraa," an episode of al Jazeera's 
Never before has such a detailed account been published regarding the 1979 seizure of Mecca by Islamic extremists. A series of gripping State Department communiques outline the dramatic event day by day, even by hour, including shocking, never-published information about additional rumored attacks, U.S. intelligence penetration of the Saudi government and Saudi efforts to mislead the world regarding the situation at the Grand Mosque. After-action reports include the names and nationalities of executed suspects, and evidence that the Egyptian sect Takfir Wal Hijra was involved in the attack. The book also offers new information about a possible link between the siege and the bin Laden family.
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