Introduction 1 I. The Rise of Usamah bin Ladin and Modern Islamic Terrorism 7 Chapter 1: The Wahhabis of Arabia and the House of Saud 9 Chapter 2: The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt 15 Chapter 3: Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Society 23 Chapter 4: The Thrill of Modern Salafi Islam 33 Chapter 5: The Ikhwan Revival: Retaliation against Saudi Arabia 45 Chapter 6: The Afghan Jihad against the Soviet Union 49 Chapter 7: Usamah bin Ladin and the Arab Afghans in the 1990s 61 Extremists Triumphant 61 Usamah bin Ladin 63 Al-Qaida 69 Usamah bin Ladin Moves to Sudan 79 Usamah bin Ladin in Afghanistan 86 Chapter 8: The Terrorist Ideology: Why They Hate Us 113 II. Background to the Afghan War 123 Chapter 9: The Afghan Factions, September 2001 133 The Taliban 134 The Arab Afghan Movement and Al-Qaida 148 The Northern Alliance 151 Chapter 10: The Regional Context 165 Saudi Arabia 165 Pakistan 167 Iran 171 Turkmenistan 176 Uzbekistan 178 Tajikistan 181 Kyrgyzstan 184 China 186 The Russian Federation 188 The United States of America 190 III. The War on Terror 201 Chapter 11: The Intelligence War against Usamah bin Ladin and Al-Qaida 203 Chapter 12: The Military Campaign in Afghanistan 223 Chapter 13: The Coalition Deploys 247 Chapter 14: Operation Enduring Freedom 261 The War in the Air 262 The Special Forces War 267 The War on the Ground 274 The Information War: America versus Al-Jazeera 283 Chapter 15: After the War: Implications for Afghanistan 293 Chapter 16: Can the War on Terror Be Won? 307 Usamah bin Ladin and Weapons of Mass Destruction 312 Ways to Successfully Combat Islamic Extremism and Terrorism 319 IV: Appendices 329 Appendix 1: Key Events of the Arab Afghan Movement and Al-Qaida 331 Appendix 2: Chronology of the War on Terror 341 Appendix 3: Islamic Extremism in Pakistan 383 Appendix 4: Islamic Extremism in Kashmir 399 Appendix 5: Islamic Extremism in Yemen 411 Appendix 6: Islamic Extremism in Sudan 419 Appendix 7: Islamic Extremism in Somalia 425 Appendix 8: Islamic Extremism in Algeria 433 Appendix 9: Islamic Extremism in Tunisia 443 Appendix 10: Hizb ut-Tahrir 445 Appendix 11: The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan 453 Appendix 12: Islamic Extremism in Chechnya and the Caucasus 473 Appendix 13: China and the Uighur East Turkestan Movement 483 Appendix 14: Islamic Extremism in Palestine 491 Appendix 15: Islamic Extremism in the Balkans: Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia 497 Appendix 16: Islamic Extremism in the Philippines 507 Appendix 17: Islamic Extremism in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore 519 Appendix 18: Sunni Islamic Extremism in the Americas 527.