from asia times omline.....
"Al-Qaeda strategists have been assisting the Taliban fight against United States-North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan because they believe that foreign occupation has been the biggest factor in generating Muslim support for uprisings against their governments, according to the just-published book by Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online's Pakistan bureau chief whose body was found in a canal outside Islamabad last week with evidence of having been tortured.
Shahzad's book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban was published on May 24 - only three days before he went missing from Islamabad on his way to a television interview. His body was found on May 31.
Shahzad, who had been the Pakistan bureau chief for the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online for 10 years, had unique access to senior al-Qaeda commanders and cadres, as well as those of Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban organizations. His account of al-Qaeda strategy is particularly valuable because of the overall ideological system and strategic thinking that emerged from many encounters Shahzad had with senior officials over several years"...............LINK
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