Al-Qaeda鈥檚 Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings tells the story of 鈥3/11鈥濃攖he March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. It runs from the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain in the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and on through the fallout of the attacks. Fernando Reinares鈥檚 account draws on judicial, police, and intelligence documents to which he had privileged access, as well as on personal interviews with officials in Spain and elsewhere. The book鈥檚 full analysis links the Madrid bombing to al-Qaeda鈥檚 senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11.
Al-Qaeda鈥檚 Revenge, Spain鈥檚 counterpart to The 9/11 Commission Report, was a bestseller in Spain.
Fernando Reinares is director of the Program on Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute, as well as professor of political science and security studies at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, both in Madrid. He coedited, with Bruce Hoffman, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden鈥檚 Death (Columbia University Press, 2014). He is a Global Fellow of the 浪花直播 Center, where he was a Public Policy Scholar in 2011, and he is also adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University in Washington, D.C.
