King Salman’s Shady History
President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is Ki...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Analysis: Freed Former al Qaeda Operative Was Part of Intelligence Dispute
Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of their final report investigati...
Op-eds
Analysis: Former al Qaeda Operative Freed, Sent Home to Qatar
Editor's Note: For more on Qatar's track record in fighting terrorism, see Dr. Weinberg's report for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies&#...
Op-eds
The Uruguay Six
On Sunday, December 7, a U.S. military medical aircraft landed in South America, to deliver six jihadists from the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay to Uruguay. For more than a dozen ye...
Op-eds
America Needs Its Rough Men
In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...
Op-eds
New FDD Report Reveals Depth of Qatar’s Terror Financing
WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance today released Part One of a three-part series revealing Qatar’s shocking record of ne...
Press Releases
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Legislative Testimonies
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Op-eds
Keep Your Frenemies List Short and Your Enemies List Shorter
... Of course, international relations have never been a simple matter of sorting other nations and groups into friends or enemies, as Daveed Garte...
Op-eds
Why Al Qaeda Released An American Hostage
Earlier today, the news broke that Peter Theo Curtis, an American who had been held hostage in Syria since 2012, has been released by his captors. Coming just days after another American hostage,...
Op-eds
When America’s Enemies Are Also Its Friends
President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at...
Op-eds
Their 9/11 Role
One of the five senior Taliban leaders transferred to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl played a key role in al Qaeda’s plans leading up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
Op-eds
Iran On A Nuclear Roll
“America cannot do a damn thing.” A banner displaying that slogan adorned the stage of an elegant mausoleum in Tehran where ...
Op-eds
Assessing Terrorism in the Caucasus and the Threat to the Homeland
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Legislative Testimonies
INTERPOL Alert Warns of Al Qaeda’s Jailbreaks
INTERPOL issued a “global security alert advising increased vigilance for terror...
Op-eds
The CIA’s Interrogation Program Deserves a Public Airing
The Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have bequeathed to the lucky few with clearances a...
Op-eds
The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos
Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?
Op-eds
Osama and the Two Nazirs
Their deaths are instructive.
Op-eds
Gitmo’s Troubling Afterlife: The Global Consequences of U.S. Detention Policy
Closing the camps in Guantánamo Bay won't address the real problems with noncriminal incarceration.
Op-eds
In Service of the Blind Sheikh?
The investigation into the exact circumstances that brought us the twin attacks on U.S. diplomats in Egypt and Libya remains ongoing. Much remains uncertain. But a few new press accounts provide...