CT Blog Experts' Columns on This Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks

By Andrew Cochran

The Contributing Experts of the Counterterrorism Blog have had columns and interviews published in various media about this anniversary and the Global War on Terror:

Steven Emerson on the GWOT in Fall 2006 issue of Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International: "While genuine moderates certainly exist, and while jihad can mean spiritual struggle to some, the stark reality is that jihadists have been in control of Muslim hierarchies and religious institutions throughout the Muslim world, and for that matter, many Muslim institutions in the West."

Walid Phares: "Projecting Future Jihadi Terrorism Five Years After 9/11" before the U.S. House International Relations Committee last week: "(T)he United States and its allies are delivering an up hill battle against an enemy that has prepared for and declared a universal war against free societies and democracy, decades before America decided to respond."

Aaron Mannes: "Black September - How terrorism got its start" on National Review Online: "Black September’s operations foreshadowed 9/11: in targeting airplanes, in bloodthirsty viciousness, and in holding the gaze of the international media."

Stephen Sloan: "'New mind-set': Expect the unexpected - Meeting the enduring threat of terrorism" in September 10 "Orlando Sentinel": "There is painful recognition that unfortunately in the "battle of ideas," terrorists and their supporters have seized the initiative." He participated in an international conference sponsored by the University of Central Florida, which has graciously authorized us to post a White Paper from that conference, "A Global Assessment of Terrorism" (Acrobat file).

You can hear Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Walid Phares discuss the GWOT, along with others, during the Global Crisis Watch Podcast. An excerpt from Daveed: "The fact that [al-Qaeda] have now been given a great base of operations in the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan indicates that they can plot and plan much more. One of the big reasons that 9/11 was able to be carried out as smoothly as it was, was that they had Afghanistan as a great base of operations where they could plan. Now they have a similar situation in Waziristan."

Additionally, Steven Emerson and a number of IPT staff, Zachary Abuza, and Victor Comras are scheduled to participate in one of the world's largest counterterrorism conferences, titled "Terrorism's Global Impact," sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center's Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in Israel this week.

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