Fountainhead of Jihad

Vahid Brown

Don Rassler

The definitive account of the rise of the most effective of the insurgent groups now waging war along the Afghan-Pakistan border...' - Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency. For decades the Haqqani network has been at the centre of a nexus of transnational Islamist militancy fostering the development of jihadi organizations from Southeast Asia to East Africa. Bringing to light abundant new evidence documenting the Haqqani network's pivotal role in the birth and evolution of the global jihadi movement, the book also advances our knowledge of the history of Al-Qaeda, and fundamentally alters the picture painted by existing literature on the subject.