The Caliphate

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André Le Gallo. The Caliphate

Introduction by Porter Goss

PART I

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PART II

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PART III

06:25 Hours

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Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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André Le Gallo’s The Caliphate pours out a tale of exciting intrigue too frightening to believe—and too believable to ignore. But you had better believe it, because Le Gallo is the real thing. I went to spy school with him years ago. He’s a natural as well as a gifted story teller. As a long-time, top-ranked CIA operations officer, Le Gallo shares with us both what goes on in the convoluted and treacherous world of foreign intelligence and what might happen if we let our guard down.

Set in the volatile evolving areas of North Africa’s Maghreb, a dangerous trail of violence and malevolence takes protagonists Steve and Kella through the sophistication and romance of Paris to the treachery of the Mid-East, areas well known to Le Gallo through his days “in the trade.” At every turn, the increasingly deranged fanatic Tariq Al Khalil escalates the stakes at risk to restore the former glory and power of the ancient Islamic Caliphate—no matter the cost. Le Gallo’s portrayal of Al Khalil reflects convincingly the vicious fanaticism of the radical Islamic fundamentalists we have uncovered since 9/11—and portends eerily those future terrorists who will continue to rally to the bastardization of the Quran by delusional radical leaders with their own agenda.

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It is a fortunate truth that André Le Gallo’s The Caliphate is fiction, but the quest for “the new Caliphate” by radical fundamentalists is not. Their vision of “Restoration” includes full control of much of the geography from the Pacific to the Atlantic, roughly in the Tropic of Cancer: the Philippines and Indonesia through Southern Asia, the “’stans” of Central Asia, the Levant of the eastern Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, the Maghreb of Northern Africa, and the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa. It is a vast area with millions of people, many barely surviving in substandard conditions.

While birth rates are generally declining for Western European nations, they are growing in the lands of the envisioned Caliphate. Radical Islamic fundamentalists advertise an intolerant, merciless view toward those not totally submitting to their “pure” interpretation of the Quran, the Hadith—the sayings of Muhammad—or all of the rules and regulations that have been passed down as Sharia law since approximately 650 AD.

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