Deadly Embrace

Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

Bruce Riedel

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780815722748
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780815722830
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing to political instability and a radicalized public. This background has helped set the stage for the global jihad confronting much of the world today.
In Deadly Embrace, Bruce Riedel explores the forces behind these developments, explaining how and why the history of Pakistan-U.S. relations has unfolded as it has. He explains what the United States can do now to repair the damage and how it can avoid making similar mistakes in dealing with extremist forces in Pakistan and beyond.
Riedel is one of America's foremost authorities on U.S. security, South Asia, and terrorism, and he helped to craft President Obama's 2009 speech referring to the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands as the "most dangerous region of the world." He follows up The Search for al Qaeda, his influential 2008 analysis of the terror network's ideology and leadership, with a sober, authoritative, and sometimes alarming look at the history, importance, and current role of Pakistan, epicenter of the global jihad movement, beginning with the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations since the partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947.
The relationship between Pakistan and America is a fascinating yet muddled story, meandering through periods of friendship and enmity, symbiosis and distrust: it's no wonder that people in both nations are confused. Deadly Embrace explains how the United States, on several occasions, actually helped the foes of democracy in Pakistan and aided in the development of the very enemies it is now fighting in the region. The book seeks to unravel this paradox, revealing and interpreting the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations, which

INDEX

Surnames starting with “al” or “al-“ are alphabetized by the following part of the name.

Abdallah, Abdallah, 62

Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 103

Afghanistan: al Qaeda in, 1, 81; communist government in, 27, 39; relationship with Pakistan, 22; U.S. military operations in, 2–3, 94, 121

Afghan Taliban: and ISI, 81, 129; and Musharraf, 62; red lines for, 129–30; resurgence of, 70–71; in syndicate of terrorists, 1

Ahmad, Mahmud, 40, 59, 64–66

Air India flight 814 hijacking (1999), 58–59, 70

Air mobility, 134–35

Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 21–22, 23

Ali, Chaudhary Rahmat, 4, 6

Al Jazeera, 98, 122

Al Qaeda: in Afghanistan, 1; arrests of operatives in Pakistan, 73, 98; and Azzam assassination, 34; and Bhutto assassination, 77, 82; and bin Laden's jihad, 78–85; franchises in Islamic world, 103–04; and Headley, 101; in Iraq, 94, 103, 104; and JeM, 70; and Musharraf, 63; in Pakistan, 1, 67, 94; resurgence of, 94; in Saudi Arabia, 33, 94; and Taliban, 3, 56, 81

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, 103

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, 103

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, 103

Al Zulfikar (group), 44

Arab-Israeli War (1947–48), 29

Arafat, Yasir, 20

Armitage, Richard, 65, 73

Arms sales. See Military aid

Army (Pakistan): Islamization of, 20–21; and LeT, 107–08; social status of, 21

As Sahab Foundation for Islamic Media Publication, 81, 98, 105

Assistance to Pakistan, 119–44; capacity building, 133–38; counterterrorism coordination, 125–27; engagement efforts, 127–33; and peace in South Asia, 138–43; trustbuilding, 121–25. See also Economic aid; Military aid

Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, 63

Atlantic Council, 136

Australia, al Qaeda plots in, 102

Awami League, 10

Awlaki, Anwar al, 103, 105

Azad Kashmir, 9

Azhar, Maulana Masood, 40, 59, 69, 84

Azizi, Amir, 84

Azzam, Abdallah Yusuf Mustafa, 28–35, 102, 105

Azzam, Hutaifa, 55–56

Balawi, Human Khalil Abu Mulal al, 99

Bali, Indonesia, night club terrorist attacks (2002), 33

Baluchistan: and Afghanistan-Pakistan relations, 138; Afghan refugees in, 24; and jihadist Pakistan scenario, 110

Baradar, Mullah, 130

Bari, Maulana Abdul, 26

Batikhi, Samih, 57

The Bear Trap: Afghanistan's Untold Story (Yousaf), 25

Bengal province: absent from Ali's vision of Pakistan, 4; independence movement, 9–10, 26; and Jinnah, 6; and official language of Pakistan, 7

Berger, Sandy, 58

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Preface: The Mystery of Abbottabad
• Preface to the First Edition
• One - Understanding Pakistan
• Two - Zia's Jihad
• Three - Omar's Jihad
• Four - Osama's Jihad
• Five - Global Jihad
• Six - Thinking the Unthinkable: Implications of a Jihadist State in Pakistan
• Seven - Helping Pakistan
• Key Persons and Timeline
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover