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Why Expand Visa Vaiver-Eligible Euro Countries When Al Qaeda Seeks Valid Euro Passports?
Hizballah Terrorist Samir Kuntar Basks in Freedom While Syria Tortures Innocent Lebanese Swiss Envoy's Relationship With FARC Under Investigation The Way Back from Islamism "Representatives" of Thai Insurgents Declare a Cease Fire. Don't Hold Your Breath. False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism NEFA Foundation Report: "The July 21, 2005 London Transport Bombings - An In-Depth Look at the Planning, Execution, and Failure of the Attack" Hizballah's "Divine Victory" Accomplished Hizballah's Military Wing Under Pressure Despite Political Gains Why Terrorists Quit: Gaining from al Qaeda's Losses Experts' Books
Walid Phares: The Confrontation and "The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy" and “Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America”
Michael Kraft & Yonah Alexander (Editors): "Evolution of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy" Douglas Farah & Zachary Abuza in Countering the Financing of Terrorism Douglas Farah: "Merchant of Death" and "Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror" Michael Jacobson: "The West at War: U.S. and European Counterterrorism Efforts, Post–September 11" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: "My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir" Steven Emerson: "Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US" and "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us" Victor Comras & Matthew Levitt (contributors): "Terrorism Financing and State Responses," Stanford University Press Matthew Levitt: "Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks" and "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" and "Targeting Terror: U.S. Policy toward Middle Eastern State Sponsors and Terrorist Organizations, Post-September 11" Zachary Abuza: "Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia" and "Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror" Lorenzo Vidino "Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of Global Jihad" Kenneth Conboy: "The Second Front: Inside Asia’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Network" Evan Kohlmann: "Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network" Credits
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Europe's most dangerous terrorist released to house arrestBy Roderick JonesIt isn’t every morning that you wake up and read in the newspaper that one of the worlds most dangerous terrorists has been released on bail but that is exactly what happened today when the New York Times reported on... Virtual Assassination as a Counterterrorism toolBy Roderick JonesAs part of the virtualization of terrorism it is worth considering what, if any, terrorist tactics can be applied in this new paradigm. One tactic, which can probably transfer from the real world to cyber environments is assassination, or in... Virtual Worlds require Virtual-HUMINT (VHUMINT)By Roderick JonesThe excellent Dark Web project at Arizona Universities Artificial Intelligence Lab has recently completed research into the use of Web 2.0 media by International jihadi groups. While fascinating in some respects it also clearly demonstrates how traditional text-mining attempts to... Worry about the Daemon not Grand Theft AutoBy Roderick JonesYesterday saw the release of Grand Theft Auto IV accompanied as usual by howls of protest from certain quarters of the media about declining moral standards. For the uninitiated Grand Theft Auto is a video game where the player takes... Britain's first Jihadi 'Lone Wolf' bomber?By Roderick JonesBig time terrorism plots are always big news whereas more subtle and interesting trends are often recorded as footnotes. One such footnote occurred over Christmas 2007 in the British city of Birmingham. A 38-year-old man, Hassan Muhammed Sabri Al Tabbakh... Congressional Hearing on Virtual WorldsBy Roderick JonesToday Congress held its first hearing on virtual worlds. I don’t have much to add to the summary already provided by Virtually Blind. Discussion did at one point turn to the use of Second Life by terrorists with Representative Jane... Spitzer's quaint captureBy Roderick JonesOne of the stranger sides to the unfolding Eliot Spitzer story is that he was caught by a wiretap in conjunction with some irregular banking activity. This seems an exceptionally quaint way to be caught out in 2008 and doesn’t... UK terrorist recruiter convictedBy Roderick JonesThe trial of Mohammed Hamid one of the leading organizers of terrorism in the UK has ended. Hamid along with three of his followers has been convicted using new legislation introduced in 2006, which criminalizes attendance at a place used... Appeal Court Judgment UK - Necessary correctionBy Roderick JonesThe appeal court in London today overturned the convictions of five young Muslim men for possession of extremist literature. The success of the young men’s appeal is likely to have ramifications on other cases in the UK. The full judgment... Davos (WEF) and 'Terrorism in a Networked World'By Roderick JonesThe annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos has a number of discussion themes and on the 24th January ‘Terrorism in a Networked World’ was the topic. The panel discussed the fact that extremist groups are using the... JihadinetsBy Roderick JonesThis piece was co-authored with Michael Schrage who is senior advisor to the MIT Security Studies program and a Sloan School adjunct lecturer. Terrorists are early adopters of new technologies - especially if they're cheap and easy to acquire. Al-Qaeda's... No LimitsBy Roderick JonesThe thoughtful private Intelligence company Stratfor just released a piece suggesting what it thinks are the limits to jihadi terrorists being able to conduct their terrorist planning and training online: The Role and Limitations of the ‘Dark Web’ In jihadist... Facebook’s Admiral Poindexter momentBy Roderick JonesFacebook is rarely out of the news these days given its status as the darling of Silicon Valley, but recently the reporting has centered on the badly received, Beacon software system. Facebook introduced this mainly with the idea of allowing... Look and Learn: Virtual worlds and Strategic CommunicationBy Roderick JonesGovernments are catching-up with the arrival of 3-D virtual worlds with a number of initiatives across both public and privately accessed virtual worlds. The focus of these projects to date, has been the ‘training’ element that these environments offer to... Legal response should be software responseBy Roderick JonesLord Admiral Alan West, Gordon Brown's chief security minister made an unfortunate mistake yesterday - he spoke his mind. When asked at 8.20am whether, he thought detention times should be extended past 28 days he said, "I'm not convinced we... |