Inside the Global Jihad

by Omar Nasin

Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raising money, and buying weapons and explosives. The DGSE, France's foreign espionage arm, recruited Nasiri as an informer - routine, workaday stuff at first, but his talents for dissimulation meant he became increasingly useful to his handlers. After proving himself to his superiors in Paris, they set him a seemingly impossible to infiltrate Al Qaeda's training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Genres: Nonfiction, Middle East

320 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2006

Reviews

[Awais Zaka · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting story of a double agent who worked both for the Al-Qaeda and Belgian intelligence agency. Good read.

[Johan C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting account of one man's inside view of jihadist camps and communities as well as the espionage of the Western countries to counter these extremist communities.