1. Introducing Mustafa Hamid -- 2. The Arab-Afghan jihad -- 3. Early training and Taliban origins -- 4. Two memos and an idea that spread: the real origins of Maktab al-Khadamat -- 5. Jaji and the establishment of al-Masadah -- 6. Confused origins: al-Qaeda's post-Jaji emergence and the Arab Advisory Council -- 7. Jalalabad and the Arab-Afghan training storm -- 8. The Afghan civil war and Arab-Afghan flight -- 9. The Arab-Afghan return and the rise of the Taliban -- 10. Strong horse, weak horse: Arab-Afghan politics and al-Qaeda's realpolitik -- 11. Arab-Afghan unity efforts and 9/11 -- 12. Reflections.
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