Contents

• Introduction
• How important is Abu Mus‘ab-al-Suri today?
• Sources on al-Suri’s life
• Who is Abu Mus‘ab al-Suri?
• The Syrian jihad
• Turmoil and uprising
• Joining the rebels
• A jihadi in exile
• The Hama debacle
• In exile in Saudi Arabia
• Exile in Europe
• Between exile in France and the Syrian jihad
• In Andalus
• Al-Suri’s first publication: ‘The Islamic jihadi revolution in Syria’
• The bombing of El Descanso restaurant in Madrid?
• Afghanistan: land of holy war
• The road to Afghanistan
• From a Syrian to a global jihad
• With Abdallah Azzam and Osama bin Laden
• Training and combat
• From military instructor to jihadi intellectual
• The rise of the Egyptian jihadi trend in Peshawar
• Introducing ‘a global Islamic resistance’ concept
• Leaving Peshawar
• Behind enemy lines
• Algeria: his next jihad
• The GIA and al-Qaida in Sudan
• A new Syrian jihad group?
• The rise of an al-Qaida cell in Spain
• A media jihadi in Londonistan 1994-97
• In the service of the Algerian GIA
• Bin Laden’s media agent
• Al-Suri’s film on Channel 4
• Facilitating CNN’s bin Laden interview
• With al-Quds al-Arabi in Tora Bora
• Meeting the Financial Times
• Suing the Arab world’s largest newspaper
• Companions, rivals, acquaintances
• Abu Qutadah al-Filastini: a love-hate relationship
• Muhammad Bahayah: life-long friend and companion
• Taysir Allouni: a point of contact in al-Jazeera
• Amir Azizi: a Moroccan aide and training associate?
• Adil Abd al-Bari: a fellow jihadi journalist
• Saad al-Faqih and Khalid al- Fawwaz: acquaintances inside the Saudi camp
• Noman Benotman and the Libyan Islamic fighting group
• In the service of the taleban
• Leaving Londonistan
• Taleban: the true Islamic emirate
• The Afghan training camps
• The Ghuraba training camp
• Teaching jihadi terrorism
• Moroccan jihadis, Abu Layth al-Libi and Abu Mus‘ab al- Zarqawi
• Writer and journalist
• Al-Suri and the al- Qaida leadership
• A secessionist leader?
• Weapons of mass destruction
• The September 11th attacks
• A $5 million dollar al-Qaida fugitive
• New books, a reward, and global fame
• His activities and whereabouts
• Al- Suri, al-Zarqawi, and the Iraqi front
• Masterminding terror?
• A message to the Europeans, July 2005
• Al- Suri’s testament
• The capture of al-Suri
• ‘The global Islamic resistance call’