Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012

by Don Rassler and Vahid Brown

Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to have been for decades at the centre of a nexus of transnational Islamist militancy, fostering the development of jihadi organisations from Southeast Asia to East Africa. Addressing the abundant new evidence documenting the Haqqani...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019932798X
• ISBN13: 9780199327980
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"