Publication

This issue discusses Washington's view that huge budget increases are needed to protect the US after 9/11. It also explores how the Taliban have managed to spread their influence from the Tribal region to the north-west frontier province in Pakistan; a summary of key points of the Taliban's military field manual seeking to prepare the new Mujahideen; an assessment of the strength of al-Qaida in Yemen; the Sunni insurgent dynamics in Iraq and the 2008 US elections; and a study of Adel Hammouda's work on militant Islamist groups.