A Muslim man who was a spy in the mid-1990s for several European intelligence services inside the global jihad network that later became al Qaeda has written a memoir saying the agencies did not understand the nature of the threat the group posed.

"Inside the Jihad," written under the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, is a copiously detailed account of a young man's journey from the fringes of the Islamist movement in Belgium to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan....

Nasiri doesn't claim to have been in al Qaeda's inner circles, and says he never met bin Laden, which al Qaeda analyst and author Peter Bergen says increases his comfort level about its credibility.

"If you were going to make something up, you'd include a bin Laden meeting, wouldn't you?" he said...

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