African jihad
Subtitle: Bin Laden's quest for the Horn of Africa
By: Gregory Alonso Pirio
Publisher: Red Sea Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781569022788; 9781569022771
Subjects: Qaida (Organization); Islamic fundamentalism -- Horn of Africa; Jihad
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sudan and al Qaeda: The jihadist onslaught; title: Jihadist Somalia: al Itihaad al Islamiya; title: Jihadism in Somalia's Islamic courts; title: Eritrean Islamic jihad/Eritrean Islamic salvation front; title: Kenya: Jihadism in an open society; title: Radical Islamic expression in Tanzania: Domain of a growing minority; title: Concluding remarks; title: The changing dynamics of jihadism in the greater Horn of Africa