Hoffman The 7/7 London Underground Bombing: Not So Homegrown

A Selection from <i>The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death</i>
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53886-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 38 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: To the Point

This chapter analyzes the July 7, 2005 suicide bomb attacks against four London transportation targets that killed over 50 people and injured hundreds others. It was among the most important operations directed by core al Qaeda leaders in years following the events of September 11th 2001. Initially, the incident was dismissed by the authorities, pundits and the media alike as the work of amateur terrorists----untrained, self-selected and self-radicalized, "bunches of guys" acting entirely on their own with no links to any terrorist organization. Evidence presented here, however, reveals a clear link between the bombers and the highest levels of the al Qaeda senior command, then based in the lawless border area separating Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffman, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The 7 July 2005 London Bombings
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Hoffman is the director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center. He previously was scholar-in-residence for counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006. He is the author of Inside Terrorism.