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The Iranian Time Bomb

By Michael A. Ledeen
Ledeen, a well-known conservative pundit on Iran, argues passionately for a bolder, better-reasoned American policy toward the Islamic republic...more

 

 

 

 

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The U.S. is vulnerable to an emerging threat. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is dedicated to identifying effective strategies and techniques to combat the threat of terrorism.

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The Center for Law & Counterterrorism puts FDD in the forefront of legal aspects of the war on terrorism – finding the proper, shifting balance that protects both our freedoms and our safety.

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The Future of Terrorism Project examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat new, more lethal strains of terrorism that now threaten America and the free world.

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We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars in oil money to regimes hostile to our interests and our way of life. Our national and economic security is at risk as long as oil has a monopoly in the transportation sector.

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The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) brings together Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups -- American and European -- concerned about the threat posed by terrorist-owned media outlets.

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The Committee on the Present Danger's goal is to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has become the next major front in the war by militant Islamism.

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A Pandora's box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since FDD hired Claudia Rosett as its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat.

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Through educating the policy community and the public about the deadly activities of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, FDD attacks its most vulnerable points: its worldwide media operations, its standing in the United States and Europe, its finances, and its efforts to support terror around the world.

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MEDIA & RESEARCH

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CTR Vantage: The Luqman Abdullah Shooting and Cause Celebre Islam
The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies is proud to present its second issue of CTR Vantage. This issue examines the Oct. 28 shooting of Detroit imam Luqman Abdullah by FBI agents. Abdullah and his followers represented an ideological fusion of fundamentalist Islam, black nationalism, and common criminality. But this unique fusion, which we dub "cause célèbre Islam," is far broader than Abdullah, with a traceable ideological foundation based on the heritage and experience of African-Americans. It is a movement that will remain on the radar of those who are concerned about the possibility of homegrown terrorism; yet it is also a movement that is under-examined. ...more
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen
11/20/2009



MEDIA

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In the Media

Lessons of Fort Hood
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
11/19/2009


Iran's Man In Manhattan
Claudia Rosett, Forbes.com
11/19/2009


It's Time to Open the Fuel Market to Methanol
Dr. Robert Zubrin, Roll Call
11/18/2009


Press Releases

FDD Applauds Introduction of Senate Banking Committee Iran Sanctions Bill
10/29/2009

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POLICY RESEARCH

Terrorism in the West 2008
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Joshua Goodman, and Laura Grossman
07/29/2009


Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Laura Grossman
04/27/2009


The Lebanese Elections and Hezbollah's Agenda
Tony Badran
06/5/2009


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Dr. Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where he focuses on Middle East history and politics, global terrorist movements, democratization and human rights. Dr. Phares also leads the foundation's Future of Terrorism Project, which considers how the Jihadi-Islamist threat will mutate over time and what can be done to defend against new, more deadly strains of terrorism...more

EVENTS
The Future of U.S.-Pakistan Relations
December 1, 2009 —
A conversation with David Ignatius, distinguished columnist and Associate Editor of The Washington Post, FDD President Clifford May, and FDD Senior Fellow euel Marc Gerecht...more

Claudia Rosett to speak at 92nd St Y
January 19, 2010 —
Israel and the United Nations: David vs...more

From The Long War Journal: US strikes Taliban camp in North Waziristan, kills 8 by Bill Roggio, 11/20/2009
Unmanned US strike aircraft killed eight Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in the second attack in North Waziristan in two days...more

From The Weekly Standard Blog: The ACLU, Moazzam Begg, and the Fort Hood Shooter's Cleric by Thomas Joscelyn, 11/19/2009
In my piece yesterday, I noted that the ACLU released a video earlier this month that features former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg...more

From Counterterrorism Blog: CTR Vantage: The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah by Madeleine Gruen, 11/19/2009
"Police, so what' Police die too...more

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