Cigar Norman L., Al-Muqrin. Al-Qa’ida’s Doctrine for Insurgency: A Practical Course for Guerrilla War

Potomac Books, 2009. — 192 p.Norman Cigar the first English translation of 'Abd Al-Aziz Al-Muqrin's A Practical Course for Guerrilla War. Saudi security forces killed Al-Muqrin, Al-Qa'ida's leader in the Arabian Peninsula, in June 2004. Published posthumously, his Arabic-language manual provides a window into Al-Qa'ida's strategic thinking and into how these terrorists operate. Accompanying the text's translation is material on Al-Muqrin's life and Cigar's cogent and detailed analysis of the key ideas in the jihadist's doctrine and the results of Al-Qa'ida's insurgency efforts on the Arabian Peninsula.