Path of Blood: The Story of Al Qaeda's War on the House of Saud - Hardcover

Small, Thomas; Hacker, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468310607 ISBN 13: 9781468310603

Publisher: Abrams Press, 2015

Synopsis

Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to reestablish an Islamic Empire that could take on the West and win. Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker use new insider evidence to expose the real story behind the Al Qaeda. Far from the image of single-minded holy warriors they present to the world, the bands of sol­diers are riven by infighting and lack of discipline. Drawing on unprecedented access to Saudi govern­ment archives, interviews with top intelligence of­ficials both in the Middle East and in the West, as well as with captured Al Qaeda militants, and access to exclusive captured video footage from Al Qaeda cells, Path of Blood tells the full story of the terrorist campaign and the desperate and deter­mined attempt by Saudi Arabia’s internal security services to put a stop to it.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Small is Associate Producer for the film and holds a degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from the University of London. This is his first book.

Review:

"Based on extensive and unprecedented access to records from the Saudi Ministry of the Interior (MOI), seized AQAP photos and documents, Web posts, and interviews with leaders of the Saudi internal security forces, the authors describe in great detail the MOI’s three-year fight (2002–2005) to destroy AQAP...it’s a solid view of operations that few Americans even know occurred." —Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1468310607
• ISBN 13: 9781468310603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480