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Flagg Miller , The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About al-Qaʿida (London: Hurst & Company, 2015), ISBN: 978-0-19-026436-9 (hb).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2017
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1 ‘Arab-Afghan’ is the term for the Arab volunteer fighters who initially travelled to Afghanistan to fight against the USSR in the 1980s.
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5 The first unambiguous use of the word as a name for bin Laden's group that Miller identifies in the audio archive is from October 2000. He translates previous uses of the word in organizational documents such as the 1988 ‘Al-Qaʿida Charter’ as referring to specific bases such as the al-Faruq camp in Afghanistan, or to more abstract rules or precepts.
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