Assessing Inspire Magazine’s 10th Edition By Scott Stewart [ VP of Analysis at STRATFOR ] Republished with permission of Stratfor. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the 10th edition of its English-language magazine, Inspire, on March 1. After discussing its contents with our analytical team, initially I decided not Continue Reading
Information Warfare
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Attacks
My Op-Ed piece, co-authored with Vanda Felbab-Brown, is available online at the Brookings website [ Click Here ]
Brachman Testimony
Jarret Brachman Testifies on AQAP Media Earlier this week my colleague Jarret Brachman provided expert testimony to the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. The hearing, which was entitled, “Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland – Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),” focused on AQAP’s use Continue Reading
Can Al Qaeda Survive the Revolts in the Middle East?
Great commentary by Bruce Riedel. “As the Arab world undergoes the most profound changes it has seen in over a half century, and the first-ever democratic revolutions in its history, al Qaeda has been caught off guard like everyone else. Now it is trying to regain its footing by looking Continue Reading
Debates and Divisions within Al-Qaida
Self Inflicted Wounds Here is an excellent example of the kind of research that definitely improves our understanding of al Qaida. “ Self Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qaida and its Periphery†was released earlier this week and is edited by Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman, two of my Continue Reading
National Framework for Strategic Communication
Click Here to download the National Framework for Strategic Communication, President Barack Obama’s Report to Congress, March 16, 2010. This 14-page report, described in the President’s transmittal letter as the “Administration’s comprehensive interagency strategy for public diplomacy and strategic communication,” was submitted in response to a requirement in Section 1055 Continue Reading
Fouad Ajami on Radical Islamists
Islam’s Nowhere Men By FOUAD AJAMI Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2010 ‘A Muslim has no nationality except his belief,” the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb’s “children” are everywhere now; they carry the nationalities of foreign lands and plot against them. The Pakistani Continue Reading
Internet Terror Recruitment and Tradecraft
Internet Terror Recruitment and Tradecraft: How Can We Address an Evolving Tool While Protecting Free Speech? Hearing, House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Click here to read the comments and Congressional testimony provided by Bruce Hoffman, Continue Reading
Announcements
Conference Announcement – 2010 International Security Studies (ISAISSS/ISAC) annual conference (Providence, RI – October 14-16, 2010) Conference Announcement – Terrorism and New Media: Building a Research Network (Dublin City University, 8-9 September 2010) – Plenary speakers include Jarret Brachman and John Horgan Call for Authors: Praeger Security International series – Continue Reading