The book “Syria: Al-Qaeda’s New Home - Biography of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi” has been released in London by journalist and filmmaker Medyan Dairieh. The book is the second volume of the series “From inside the jihadist movements”, in which Dairieh provides rare and exclusive information on jihadist movements which he has been gathering over several years. The book has been published in the Arabic language and is due to be soon translated into English. In the book the author takes a deep look inside the Al-Qaeda organisation especially since its inception in Syria in the 1990s, and then through it


The book “Syria: Al-Qaeda’s New Home - Biography of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi” has been released in London by journalist and filmmaker Medyan Dairieh. The book is the second volume of the series “From inside the jihadist movements”, in which Dairieh provides rare and exclusive information on jihadist movements which he has been gathering over several years. The book has been published in the Arabic language and is due to be soon translated into English. In the book the author takes a deep look inside the Al-Qaeda organisation especially since its inception in Syria in the 1990s, and then through its developments from the start of the Syrian revolution. The book includes and provide evidence of the author’s exclusive meetings with senior leaders of the Al-Nusra Front and of all the other jihadist movements in Syria, in addition to his unique dialogues with foreign fighters in the country. Dairieh also narrates the most important events in the life of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, including his founding of the al-Qaeda organisation in Syria and its establishment of the nucleus of an Islamic State in Iraq. The author gathered the information about Al-Zarqawi from the testimonies and the extraordinary encounters with his wives, children, and senior leaders within his inner circle, whom have provided documents to substantiate the information. In exactly the same way the author sheds light on the first leaders of the Al-Qaeda organisation. The facts and data described in the book are corroborated by videos and photos taken by the author during his meetings with jihadist leaders and fighters in several countries, such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon


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