Inside the Global Jihad by Omar Nasiri

Inside the Global Jihad (Jacana Edition of an Al Qaeda Infiltration Memoir)

An Insider's Account of Life in Al Qaeda's Afghan Training Camps, Told by a Former Agent of European Intelligence

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Inside the Global Jihad: How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
• Author: Omar Nasiri
• Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, Auckland Park, South Africa
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN-13: 9781770093188
• ISBN-10: 1770093184
• Edition Details: This edition first published by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2006; first published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. in 2006. Introduction by Gordon Corera.
• Binding: Publisher's printed paperback (perfect bound), black cover with a photograph of a corridor and door and the Jacana logo.
• Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback). With a timeline and a list of characters at the front.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Wraps: The black printed wrappers are clean and bright to the front, with a straight, unbroken spine and intact spine lettering. The corners are largely square. The dark back cover shows some faint light marks or scuffs, lower left and centre.
• Interior: The title page, copyright page and timeline page are clean and unmarked. The page edges are lightly toned. The text block is tight. No foxing, writing or markings are evident.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Inside the Global Jihad, published in South Africa by Jacana Media in 2006, is the memoir of a man writing as Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym adopted to protect his identity. Moroccan by birth and raised in Belgium, he describes working as an informant for European intelligence services.

The book follows his recruitment by France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, and the assignment that followed: to infiltrate Al Qaeda's training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It offers an insider's view of jihadist networks in Western Europe and of daily life in the camps, and presents the author as abandoned by the Western intelligence services he served.

The work was first issued in London by C. Hurst & Co. in 2006, with an introduction by Gordon Corera, the BBC's security correspondent. The back cover carries praise from a former CIA official and a journalist. As with many accounts of this kind, the author's claims are not independently verified, and the book is best read as a first-person testimony of the early years of global jihadism.

Author Profile: Omar Nasiri

Omar Nasiri is a pseudonym, used to protect the author's identity. Moroccan by birth and raised in Belgium, he states that between 1994 and 2000 he worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services.

Inside the Global Jihad is the only book published under this name.

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