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"Drawing on extensive primary source research, dozens of in-depth interviews with leading government officials, statistical analysis, and case studies of Pakistan, Yemen, Mali, and Egypt, this book demonstrates that U.S.-backed domestic counterterrorism operations by partner states' militaries, intended to target al Qaeda within the "ungoverned spaces" of the periphery, provoked a violent backlash from local terrorist groups. This backlash resulted in an increase in domestic terrorist attacks within America's partner states, accounting for the overwhelming majority of global terrorist activity since 9/11. As domestic terrorist activity spiked abroad, however, U.S. officials continued to frame this violence through the narrative of al Qaeda's transnational jihad and exerted greater pressure on partner states to expand their counterterrorism efforts. This exacerbated the underlying conditions that led to the increase in domestic terrorism, trapping America's partner states in a deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence with the targeted terrorist groups-the eponymous terrorism trap. This data reveals a trend in the post-9/11 War on Terror-increasing domestic terrorism inside America's partner states-that has been hiding in plain sight, little understood"--

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. --- Terrorism --- Terrorism --- Prevention. --- United States --- Developing countries --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations