His first training base was initially made up only of a handful of close friends from Jordan, along with their families. But Zarqawi sent invitations to some of his old mujahideen comrades and prison contacts, and soon others were making the trek to western Afghanistan.
Did al Qaeda provide a template for the invitations? Were they sent by eVite or something similar?
The purely mundane operational aspects of the al Qaeda network are what interest me most of all. We expect the Nazis to do be organized like that, because they were Germans, but Islamic Jihadists? Have I scoffed at Islamofascism as a concept, only to be wrong?
