Mis Hermanos Asesinos: El Estremecedor Relato De Un Periodista Que Logro Infiltrase En Celulas De Al-Qaeda by Mohamed Sifaoui, Maria Andrea Giovine Yanez (Translator)

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Ever since surviving a terrorist attack in his native Algeria in 1996, journalist Sifaoui has made it a point to fight against the "fascist ideologies" of terrorists acting in the name of Islam. As luck would have it, in 2002, while covering the trial of the Paris metro bombers and having become an outspoken journalist in France against extreme Islamism, Sifaoui ran into Karim Bourti, an old high school acquaintance who commands an Al-Qaeda cell in Paris. Here begins the courageous journey of a man who managed to infiltrate the terrorist organization for three months, facing the danger of discovery every day (Sifaoui now lives under the protection of the French government). Although not a hard-hitting expos of how terrorist actions are carried out, the book provides a startling insight into how a terrorist's mind sees the world and how a fundamentalist group can be organized directly under the nose of government officials. Written in journal form, Sifaoui's story reads more like a suspense novel, which makes the work all the more gripping, considering the full authenticity of the events described. This Spanish translation is fluid with appropriate footnotes explaining Islamic and French terms. Highly recommended for bookstores and public libraries with extensive current affairs collections. C sar Cazales, Minneapolis, MN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Foreign Affairs

Karim Bourti and Mohamed Sifaoui met in Paris in October 2002, at the trial of Algerian Islamist radicals who had terrorized the city with a series of 1995 bombings. Bourti, himself a militant Islamist, was attending the trial to support the defendants; Sifaoui, a journalist, was covering it for a Luxembourg newspaper. In furtive conversations at the hearings, the two men established that they had strikingly similar profiles: raised in the same neighborhood in Algiers, they had gone to the same high school and now both lived as exiles in France. Bourti took Sifaoui for a potential recruit; Sifaoui saw an opportunity to get a great story by infiltrating Bourti's circle, a cell of the al Qaeda-affiliated Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (known by its French acronym, GSPC).

Bourti was no big fish; he ran a lucrative traffic in fake brand-name clothes and pressured Parisian imams to let him collect funds in their mosques. Still, as a mid-level GSPC operative, he might also have recruited and hosted terrorists traveling through Europe, including the shoe bomber Richard Reid. So for more than three months in 2002, Sifaoui, posing as a fellow radical, attended meetings with Bourti's associates in Paris and in London. Mes Freres Assassins is the diary of his imposture.

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