In the 1980s, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, a Syrian originally known as Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, published a 1,600-page book entitled, The Global Islamic Resistance Call, which supplied the younger generation with a blueprint to follow to build an Islamist insurgency and guerrilla warfare movement.
While al-Suri was reportedly captured in Pakistan in late 2005, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment Prof. Brynjar Lia argues in Architect of Global Jihad that he "remains a potent political and ideological figure." His new book is a biography of the charismatic leader and the world that gave rise to him.
