Bruce Hoffman comes out with a brutal
review in
Foreign Affairs of Dr. Marc Sageman's new book:
Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the 21st Century.
Basically he argues that Sageman radically underestimates al-Qaeda Central's organizational strength and reach, and thinks that Sageman's methods lead him incorrectly to focus entirely on spontaneous jihadists inspired by rather than controlled by al-Qaeda. Hoffman believes that the main terrorist threat remains al-Qaeda and its associated organizations, rather than Sageman's theory of a disassociated movement of individual and small groups.
I haven't read Sageman's book, but Hoffman has him dead to rights on the historical inaccuracies. Thoughts?
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