"Jihadi Strategists and Doctrinarians", Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman (eds.) Self-Inflicted Wounds Debates and Divisions within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery (West Point, NY : Combating Terrorism Center, 2010), pp.100-131. By Brynjar Lia.

FFI explains the al-Qaida document "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Risks".
Read the document here.
Read FFI's analysis here.

"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings". By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.

Brynjar Lia:
Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri
(London and New York: Hurst & Columbia University Press, 2008)

Despite his alleged capture in Pakistan in late 2005, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, a Syrian originally known as Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, remains a potent political and ideological figure. Al-Suri trained a generation of young jihadis at al-Qaeda's Afghan camps and helped establish the organisation's European networks. Having gained extensive military experience fighting in the Syrian Islamist insurgency of the early 1980s, he helped to shape al-Qaeda's global strategy in a series of writings, including his influential Global Islamic Resistance Call. In this 1,600 page book, Al-Suri outlines a broad strategy for al-Qaeda's younger generation to follow and describes practical ways to implement the theories and tactics of jihadi guerrilla warfare. In Architect of Global Jihad, Brynjar Lia translates two key chapters from Al-Suri's Global Islamic Resistance Call and exposes his methods for maximising the political impact of jihadi violence and building successful, autonomous cells for "individualised terrorism". Al-Suri's words have inspired many of today's militants, making Lia's detailed portrait required reading for students and specialists of Islamist movements and the study of contemporary forms of terrorism. Read more..