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The United States, its Western allies, and nearly all states in the Islamic world are facing a weakened jihadi enemy, but one still capable of inflicting, or threatening to inflict, spectacular acts of terrorist violence. The recent attempts to send package bombs on cargo planes is only the latest in a series of plots suggesting that although al-Qa'da and its cohorts have suffered a number of setback, the group and its affiliates and associates continue to pose a serious challenge to the security of the United States and its allies.Self Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa'ida and its Periphery examines the internal reasons that have hastened the decline of the jihadi movement. In doing so, it exposes the jihadi movement, with al-Qa'ida at its helm, as one that lacks coherence and unity, despite its claims to the contrary.

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Dr. Assaf Moghadam is Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy's Department of Social Sciences. Dr. Moghadam is the author of The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda Salafi Jihad and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Roots of Terrorism (Chelsea House, 2006). Dr. Moghadam earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Brian Fishman is Counterterrorism Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and is a Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, where he served previously as the Director of Research. Fishman is the author of numerous reports and journal articles, including Dysfunction and Decline: Lessons Learned from Inside al-Qa'ida in Iraq (CTC at West Point, 2009) and The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict Across the FATA and NWFP (New America Foundation, 2010).

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