
Gerges, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).ĩ Recruitment for the Jihad in the Netherlands: From Incident to Trend, AIVD Briefing Paper, December 2002 available at. For a more extensive account, see Fawaz A. 63–72.ħ See ‘European Militant Network Shut Down’, Associated Press, 18 December 2003 ‘BND: Al-Tawhid gibt es auch in Tschechien’, Radio Praha, 5 November 2003.Ĩ Petter Nesser, ‘Jihad in Europe: A Survey of the Motivations for Sunni Islamist Terror in Post-Millennium Europe’, FFI Rapport, 2004, pp. See also Fidel Sendagorta, ‘Jihad in Europe: The Wider Context’, Survival, vol.

The individuals involved in alQaeda-type terrorism will be referred to as ‘salafi jihadists’, reflecting the loose nature of the network through which they interact. I use ‘al-Qaeda’to refer to the network established by Osama bin Laden, which operated until the removal of the safe haven of Afghanistan in late 2001. See Olivier Roy, ‘Britain: Homegrown Terror’, Le Monde Diplomatique, August 2005. Jihadists have opted for advancing their ideological aims through violent means. 91–100 Peter Bergen, ‘They Will Strike Again’, Los Angeles Times, 12 December 2004.Ħ Salafism is an ideological orientation that seeks to purge Islam of all outside influences. 368.ĥ See, for example, Rohan Gunaratna, ‘The Post-Madrid Face of A1 Qaeda’, The Washington Quarterly, vol.

Stelzer, ‘Letter from Londonistan’, Weekly Standard, 1 August 2005.Ģ Cited in Gary Younge, ‘Newspapers Warn of Threat to Americans from “Londonistan”’, The Guardian, 12 July 2005.ģ Pervez Musharraf, cited in‘The New A1 Qaeda’, BBC2, 9 August 2005.Ĥ Lorenzo Vidino, Al Qaeda in Europe (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005), p.
