Orlando
The Digital Battlefield
How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization
Congressional Testimonies
Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists
An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement
Monographs
Dollars Against Democracy: Domestic Terrorist Financing in the Aftermath of Insurrection
Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy
Congressional Testimonies
The Jihadist Threat Persists
America must respond to Iran’s attack on Israel to prevent a regional war
Following an Iranian rocket attack Thursday launched from Syria against Israel that prompted the Jewish state to send warplanes and missiles into Syria to destroy Iranian military targets, the Tr...
Op-eds
Unfinished Business
Donald Trump is fond of claiming that his predecessor mismanaged America's role in the world. "And I have to just say that the world is a mess. I inherited a mess," the president noted durin...
Op-eds
ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation
On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...
Op-eds
The Future of Counter-Terrorism Strategy
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Congressional Testimonies
Orlando Terrorist May Have Been Radicalized and Gay
During a press conference Tuesday, President Obama said the terrorist responsible for the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando was inspired by propaganda produced by the Islamic Stat...
Op-eds
Radicalization in the U.S. and the Rise of Terrorism
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Congressional Testimonies
Bloody Ramadan: How The Islamic State Coordinated A Global Terrorist Campaign
In late May 2016, the Islamic State (ISIL) ...
Op-eds
Gulf Monarchies Condemned Orlando Attack While Promoting Hate Preachers: Government-Sponsored Cleric
America’s Gulf allies talk a good game against terrorism. They ...
Op-eds
What’s in a Name?
Barack Obama’s habit of avoiding Islamic nomenclature and highlighting American gun violence whenever Muslim terrorists strike is surely, in part, a product of his fear of anti-Muslim xenop...
Op-eds
Defeating ISIS on the Digital Battlefield
Clearly, the U.S. and its allies can and should meet Islamic State on the battlefield, whether in Syria or Iraq. But the war with the ISIS “virtual state”—those the terrorist or...
Op-eds
What it’s like to be a Muslim in the CIA
It was the day after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. I was working as a CIA analyst. I sat in a room with the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, along with several other a...
Op-eds
Jihadists Under Investigation
The system was blinking red for months prior to the June 12 terrorist attack in Orlando. Since early 2015, the FBI has repeatedly warned the American public that the threat of violent attacks is...
Op-eds
Terrorism and economic warfare
Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers &...
Op-eds
The FBI director painted a bizarre picture of the man behind the worst mass shooting in US history
The director of the FBI, James Comey, said Monday that Omar Mateen, the man who carried out the worst shooting in US history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, mentioned links to al-Qaida, Hezbollah,...
Op-eds
The Orlando Shooter’s Desire for ‘Martyrdom’
After each jihadist attack in the West, our society rehearses the same ritualistic debate over what the terrorists' motivations really are. It is true that "radicalization," as it is often d...