Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

From Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, this is a unique and chilling insider's story of the rise of Al Qaeda and the intelligence services that struggle to contain it.

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services — including France's DGSE (Direction Gérale de la Séritéxtéeure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belg...