The Economist, Al-Qaeda. How jihad went freelance: “TERRORISTS are a bit like you and me, or so Marc Sageman suggests. It might be comforting to think that angry young Islamists are crazed psychopaths or sex-starved adolescents who have been brainwashed in malign madrassas. But Mr Sageman, a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research [...]
Entries Tagged as 'al qaeda'
Why Terrorism Doesn’t Work
July 3rd, 2007
Bruce Schneier: “This is an interesting paper on the efficacy of terrorism: This study analyzes the political plights of twenty-eight terrorist groups — the complete list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) as designated by the U.S. Department of State since 2001. The data yield two unexpected findings. First, the groups accomplished their forty-two policy objectives [...]
The Redirection. A Strategic Shift
February 25th, 2007
&tSeymour Hersh;/a>: “In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open [...]
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links for 2006-03-28
March 28th, 2006
Schneier on Security: Al Qaeda Hacker Captured “So he was a terrorist. And he used the Internet, both as a communication tool and to break into networks. But this does not make him a cyberterrorist.” (tags: terrorism Internet irhabi007 al-qaeda) Drunk “about drunken driving” (tags: advertising drunkdrive)
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