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March 7, 2025 | Will Selber |

Recent arrests of Islamic State sympathizers highlight persistent threats to US

In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston, drove his rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing...

November 24, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Ryan Brobst

Congress should support the Biden administration’s effort to sell defensive missiles to Saudi Arabia

A fight is brewing within the Democratic party over whether to permit the sale of defensive air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration’s State Department approved the sale of 280 AIM-120C...

June 23, 2020 | David Kilcullen |

America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?

In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...

June 3, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

What the alien invasion has wrought

Attacked by a common enemy, earthlings have not united

November 6, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Selective anti-imperialism

The world’s most despotic empires do not concern Ilhan Omar and her fans.

August 28, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Save the Terrorism Prevention Toolkit

Co-authored by George Selim. The images from Charlottesville captured the nation’s attention. Cameras showed Nazi salutes, swastikas, and ...

July 18, 2017 |

Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers

Download the full testimony here....

June 10, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad

You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was...

September 11, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

Is ISIS Already Here?

Experts disagree on whether or not the United States has already been penetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). CNN...

October 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri

Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...

April 18, 2011 | |

Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued …

My column this weekend was about the Obama administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood — an infatuation that flies under the lunatic banner of “Islamic Outreach.&rd...

December 20, 2010 | American Foreign Policy Interests

Review: Somalia, the New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa

Since the tattered remnants of what was the country's last central government fled the capital aboard a column of their last functioning tanks in January 1991, Somalia has been such a striki...

June 7, 2010 | National Review Online |

About Those Somali Terrorist Arrests in New Jersey

On Sunday, Dan noted this New York Times report by Will Rashbaum about two men arrested in New Jersey on terrorism...

November 25, 2009 |

Western Terrorism Recruits in Somalia

On Monday, the United States unsealed terrorism charges against eight defendants for supporting a Somali Islamist group called al-Shabaab. While few lay people in Canada or the United States have...

November 12, 2009 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Long War Journal

Arrest in Netherlands May Yield Insight Into Shabaab Recruiting Networks

Yesterday the Star Tribune (published in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reported on a seemingly significant arrest in the Netherlands related to the al Shabaab recruiting networks that have centered on th...

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Somali President Sheikh Sharif’s Diplomatic Efforts in the U.S.

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed traveled to the U.S. in early October; among other things, h...

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...

October 1, 2009 | NEFA Backgrounder

Abdullah al-Faisal: Extremist Ideologue with Influence in the West

By Madeleine Gruen In 2009, Americans have seen an increase in terrorism-related arrests of U.S. citizens who traveled abroad for training and battlefield experience. In January...

September 24, 2009 | World Defense Review

Putting Puntland’s Potential into Play

By Dr. J. Peter Pham In last week's column, I noted that the United States military and intelligence communitie...

September 17, 2009 | World Defense Review

Somali Instability Still Poses Threat Even After Successful Strike on Nabhan

By Dr. J. Walid Phares The United States struck an important blow against Islamist terrorism in the Horn of Africa earlier this week when, in the middle of the day on Monday, Sp...