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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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Search ResultsSearch Results from Counterterrorism Blog25 result(s) displayed (1 - 25): More on the Bolivarian Revolution's Terrorist LinksThere are several new factors that point to how the Bolivarian Revolution is working to undermine Latin America's fragile institutions. The first is the stunning video of senior FARC commander Jorge Briseño, AKA Mono Jojoy, acknowleging that the guerrilla group... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on July 23, 2009 10:20 AM A Year After the Reyes Killing: Lessons Learned From the FARCAlthough a few days late, it is worth looking back at the year since Raul Reyes, the second in command of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) was killed in a permanent camp he had set up a few... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 9, 2009 5:22 PM Diplomatic Explusions Highlight Need for US to Re-Engage with Latin AmericaThe expulsions last week of the U.S. Ambassadors to Venezuela and Bolivia, and the U.S.'s reciprocal response should not have been unexpected. They illustrate the current condition of long deteriorating relations between the U.S. and those countries, as well as... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on September 14, 2008 12:06 PM Latin America Heats Up: Is There a Policy?The news that both Bolivia and Venezuela, whose presidents are staunch allies and friends, have chosen to expel the respective U.S. ambassadors is the most visible evidence of the frayed relations the United States now has with much of Latin... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on September 12, 2008 10:42 AM The Importance of the Colombian Rescue MissionAs my colleagues Jonathan Winer and Aaron Mannes have written on the Counterterrorism Blog, the spectacular operation by the Colombian military to rescue 15 high-profile hostages was a tremendous blow to the FARC in Colombia. In the interest of full... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on July 3, 2008 10:30 AM Colombia Rescues Ingrid Betancourt and Three US HostagesThe dramatic news that Colombia had successfully rescued Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans held hostage for years by FARC terrorists represents a further break-through by the Uribe government in what has been an extraordinary year of successes against FARC. We... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on July 2, 2008 3:26 PM NEFA Foundation: "The FARC in Transition: The Fatal Weakening of the Hemisphere's Oldest Guerrilla Movement"Today the NEFA Foundation published a paper I wrote on the overall weakening of the FARC in Colombia and the likely options for its future development. The new paper, "The FARC in Transition: The Fatal Weakening of the Hemisphere's Oldest... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on July 2, 2008 10:03 AM The Death of Marulanda and the Future of the FARCThe FARC's announcement this weekend that its top leader, Manuel Marulanda (AKA Tirofijo, or "Sureshot") had died of a heart attack means the end of an era for the Marxist-inspired group that is now more criminal enterprise than insurgency. Marulanda,... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 27, 2008 11:00 AM FARC's terrorist diplomacy reaches GermanyA recent article in the German online publication, Der Spiegel, provides further insights into FARC's efforts to get itself off international terrorist lists. According to Der Spiegel, documents provided to it by Colombian officials said to be from the seized... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 24, 2008 10:53 PM INTERPOL Finds FARC Computers Material Authentic and ExtensiveWe don't yet know what else is in the contents of the FARC computers that INTERPOL has now verified to be exactly as represented by the Colombian government -- the true and untampered contents of FARC computers seized by Colombia... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 15, 2008 4:13 PM Docs Suggest Chavez, FARC Agreed to Blame Paramilitaries for FARC's MurdersOn May 10, the Colombian magazine Semana reported that FARC guerrillas developed a strategy in the fall of 2004 to blame Colombian paramilitaries for the Apure massacre in which FARC killed five soldiers and a woman engineer in a raid... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 12, 2008 5:51 PM More on the FARC-Chavez ConnectionNew materials released to the Associated Press and a Spanish newspaper reinforce earlier information showing ongoing operational cooperation between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Colombia's FARC guerrillas. Documents reviewed by AP provided by Colombia from the computers seized by Colomba... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 12, 2008 3:53 PM More on the FARC Documents Come to LightLittle by little more of the thousands of documents captured from the FARC rebels in Colombia are coming to light and the picture is not pretty. While INTERPOL is reportedly set to declare the contents of the computers captured after... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 12, 2008 12:32 PM A Murder in MexicoThe murder of Mexico's police chief signals just how serious the Mexican drug trafficking organizations are about taking on the Mexican state. And just how weak the Mexican state is. "This could have a snowball effect, even leading to the... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 9, 2008 12:40 PM Colombian Newspaper Reports INTERPOL Found No Tampering with FARC ComputersAccording to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, computer forensics experts from INTERPOL have found that the personal computers found by Colombia in its March 1 cross-border raids of a FARC camp in Ecuador retain their integrity and have not been... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on May 7, 2008 4:40 PM FARC's Efforts to Assassinate Uribe Described in Seized ComputersThe Colombian publication El Tiempo has published the text of further documents provided by the government of Colombia and described as taken from the FARC computers of the late Raul Reyes seized by Colombia after its raid on Reyes' camp... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on April 23, 2008 2:04 PM Ecuador Publishes FARC Commander's "Brotherly Greetings"In a bizarre twist to the verbal war between Ecuador and Colombia over the contents of the captured computers of FARC rebel leader Raul Reyes, killed in the March 1 cross-border Colombian attack, the Office of the President of Ecuador... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on April 11, 2008 8:50 AM New information on FARC Support For Ecuador Presidential CampaignAs INTERPOL completes its forensics review of the material in the FARC computers seized by Colombia in the March 1 raid that killed FARC leader Raul Reyes, officials in Ecuador and Venezuela have adopted a media strategy of continuing attacks... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on April 10, 2008 9:18 AM Chavez's Sudden Interest in Combatting Drug TraffickingThe Washington Post today brings word of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's suddenly intensified efforts to crack down on the booming drug trade through his country. Elite troops have been dispatched primarily to blow up rudimentary airstrips near the Colombian border.... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on April 7, 2008 3:19 PM Venezuela Begins Media Counteroffensive in Washington Against Terrorism ChargesThe Venezuelan Embassy in Washington sent a mass e-mail today with four attachments, intending to blunt growing concern in Washington that the Chavez government has cooperated with Colombia's FARC terrorists. The counteroffensive is especially aimed at discrediting a resolution introduced... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on April 1, 2008 4:34 PM Colombia Announces Find of 66 Pounds of Uranium It Says Linked to FARCAuthentication of the information reportedly found in the computers seized after Colombia's March 1 raid on FARC camps in Ecuador has been coming in concrete form. First there was the discovery March 14 of $480,000 in cash held in a... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 26, 2008 11:16 PM Our Expert Panel on Disclosures From FARC Computer About Ecuador and Venezuela(Edited to add Acrobat file of transcript.) On March 19, I moderated a Counterterrorism Foundation panel titled, "Compañeros de Armas ("Friends in Arms"): Chavez, FARC & South America" before a group of Congressional staff and other attendees on Capitol Hill... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 24, 2008 12:27 AM The FARC's Terrorist DiplomacyIf the information in the laptops seized by the government of Colombia following its March 1 cross-border raid into Ecuador proves to be as authentic as it appears, Colombia's FARC guerillas have developed an extensive political network to supplement their... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 18, 2008 2:07 PM FARC allegations multiply, require vettingAnyone trying to sort out the public allegations about FARC's global criminal reach can't be faulted for wondering how to distinguish between information and disinformation. The latest account, out of the Bogota publication, The Spectator (El Espectador), begs for an... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 10, 2008 2:06 PM What the FARC Documents ShowFirst, a clarification. The documents taken from the laptop of FARC senior commander Raul Reyes when Reyes was killed had nothing to do with the arrest of arms merchant Viktor Bout in Thailand. My sources involved in the operation said... Posted in Counterterrorism Blog on March 10, 2008 10:55 AM Movable Type search results powered by Fast Search |