Path of Blood tells the horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the birthplace of Islam &, from there, to re-establish a Muslim Empire that could take on the West & win. Thomas Small & Jonathan Hacker use new insider evidence to expose the real story behind the Al Qaeda. Far from the image of single-minded holy warriors they presented to the world, the bands of soldiers are shown to be riven by infighting & lack of discipline. Yet the threat they posed was unquestionable. Ill-disciplined or not, these were men who killed with impunity, & who tried to acquire a nuclear bomb. Drawing on unprecedented access to Saudi government archives, interviews with top intelligence officials in the Middle East & in the West, as well as with captured Al Qaeda militants, & with access to exclusive captured video footage from Al Qaeda cells, Path of Blood tells the full story of the terrorist campaign & the desperate attempt by Saudi Arabia`s internal security services to put a stop to it.