Mohammed Merah

January 7, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Quoted by Armin Rosen - Business Insider

Some Possibilities For Who Might Be Responsible For The Paris Attack

... "A few data points suggest Al Qaeda. A few data points suggest ISIS. And we just don't have enough information to really know right now," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fello...

June 26, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Jihad At The Jewish Museum

For three years, Western governments have viewed Syria mostly as a problem from hell. They lamented Syria's descent into the abyss of civil war and mass atrocities. They expressed hope for a...

October 24, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

The ‘Devil’ We Know

Anti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel...

January 17, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

“Send Lone Wolves to Strike Inside of France”

In an article I wrote yesterday for the Globe & Mail, I noted...

January 16, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

The War’s in Mali, But the Danger is International

Since France began aerial bombardment of Islamist rebels in Mali last week, the larger worry has shifted from within the beleaguered country’s borders to the wider world. There are concerns...

October 17, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jund al Khilafah Emir Killed in ‘Treacherous Raid’

Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist A Swiss jihadist who is known to have recruited and trained al Qaeda fighters and has been linked to top al Qaeda leaders has been killed in a "tre...

June 20, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Long War Journal

Germany Starts to Clamp Down on Salafists

BERLIN, Germany - Last week the German interior ministry stepped up its efforts against a growing Salafist network in the Federal Republic, stating that "[t]he organization acts in opposition to...

April 6, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Something Rotten in Germany

On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security....

April 4, 2012 | Clifford D. May

The Messages of Toulouse

Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs.

April 3, 2012 |

Nothing Alienates Canadians Like the Veneration of ‘Human Bombs’

Are we witnessing a turning point in the Muslim world’s attitude toward terrorism? Self-described “martyrs” who kill in the name of Islam have long been revered figures among Is...

April 3, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old...

March 26, 2012 |

Don’t Stay the Course

He couldn’t name a single one. In this tense campaign season, al-Qaeda is very much in the front of the Obama administration’s mind. In fact, admini...

March 22, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jund al Khilafah Claims French Shooting

Jund al Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, an al Qaeda and Haqqani Network-linked terror group that is based along the Afghan-Pakistani border, claimed credit for one of the shootings attrib...

March 22, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Terror in Toulouse

French officials have identified the gunman responsible for the deaths of seven people, including three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, as a French-Algerian named Mohammad Me...