http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events/showevent.asp?eventid=6309
The African Jihad: Bin Laden's Quest for the Horn of Africa Greg Pirio will discuss his book, The African Jihad, which examines efforts to bring about the grand vision of Islamist hegemony in the greater Horn of Africa region. Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 10383 Bunche Hall 10th floor UCLA campus Los Angeles, CA 90095 The book traces how these efforts began with the collaboration between Al Qaeda and the National Islamic Front (NIF) government of Sudan. The NIF under the ideological leadership of Hasan al-Turabi and Al Qaeda under Osama bin Laden sought to channel the social, political and economic grievances of Muslim communities into a global jihadist narrative, and the NIF and Al Qaeda worked hand in glove to set up and/or support several, coordinated jihadist movements in the countries of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. Pirio takes the story of Horn of Africa jihadism up to the defeat of the Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia by the combined forces of Ethiopia and the Somali Transitional Federal Government in early 2007; he demonstrates how a faction within Somalia's Islamic Courts movement with historic ties to Al Qaeda had come to dominate the Islamic Court's movement and threatened wider regional insecurity and the expansion of the Middle East conflict into Africa. Gregory Alonso Pirio is president of Empowering Communications, a firm dedicated to promoting communications as a constructive force for positive social change, and he is one of the principal promoters of NextAfrica, an all African news and information TV channel. Pirio was Director of the Portuguese-to-Africa and the English-to-Africa Services of the Voice of America (VOA) where he supervised extensive, in-depth coverage of issues and events of importance to African radio and TV audiences. He holds a Ph.D. in African History and an M.A. in African Studies, and has published academically on issues relating to the history Pan-Africanism, especially the Marcus Garvey Movement. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
