Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings (Woodrow Wilson Center Series) - Hardcover

Reinares, Fernando

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231704542 ISBN 13: 9780231704540

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Columbia University Press, 2017

Synopsis

In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 192 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and discusses the preparations for and fallout from the attacks. Reinares draws on judicial, police, and intelligence documents to which he had privileged access, as well as on personal interviews with officials in Spain and elsewhere. His full analysis links the Madrid bombings to al-Qaeda's senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11.

Al-Qaeda's Revenge, Spain's counterpart to The 9/11 Commission Report, was a bestseller in Spain.

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About the Author

Fernando Reinares is director of the Program on Violent Radicalization and Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute, as well as professor of political science and security studies at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, both in Madrid. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a Global Fellow of the Wilson Center. Reinares coedited, with Bruce Hoffman, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death (Columbia, 2014). The Association of 3/11 Terrorism Victims awarded him the Prize for Memory and Peace in 2022 in honor of his research on the attacks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231704542
• ISBN 13: 9780231704540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288