Table of Contents

1. Introduction: al-Qaeda as Audience 2. Communicators and Audiences 3. America’s Counter-Terrorist Communications 4. The al-Qaeda World-View 5. The View of the Audience 6. Conclusion: Understanding and Improving Communication 7. Appendix: Individuals Interviewed 8. References

About the Author

Joshua Alexander Geltzer has a PhD in War Studies from Kings College London, and is currently a juris doctoral student at Yale Law School.

Reviews

"...as a breath-catching take on the problem of unexamined, ineffective, domestic-driven American signaling to terrorists, whether of the nascent Obama or entrenched Cheney type, Geltzer's work is very impressive." -- Steve Coll, The New Yorker"Joshua Alexander Geltzer provides the tools, narrative, and proper framing to better understand the dynamics of U.S. counterrerrorism signalling, even as he sheds some practical light on al-Qaeda's worldview." - Christopher P. Costa, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 23, 1, December 2010