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BOOKS

Freedom Betrayed

By Michael A. Ledeen
In this call to embrace the worldwide democratic revolution, this book argues that global democracy should be the centerpiece of U.S. strategy....more

 

 

 

 

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

FEATURED PROJECTS

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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

IN FOCUS

Major Hasan and Holy War
For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off its rails in 1995, European intelligence and internal-security services have increasingly monitored European Muslim radicals. Whether it's anti-Muslim bigotry, the large numbers of immigrant and native-born Muslims in Europe, an appreciation of how hard it is to become European, or just an understanding of how dangerous Islamic radicalism is, most Europeans are far less circumspect and politically correct when discussing their Muslim compatriots than are Americans. ...more
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Wall Street Journal
11/23/2009



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

CTR Vantage: The Luqman Abdullah Shooting and Cause Celebre Islam
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen
11/20/2009


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


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FEATURED EXPERT

Claudia Rosett, a former foreign correspondent and member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, is FDD's full-time journalist-in-residence. She won a national journalism award for exposing the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal...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 Across the Bay: The Syrian Illusion Revisited by Tony Bey, 11/22/2009
Here are two excellent recent pieces by Emile Hokayem and Jonathan Spyer on the stale old illusion of a Syrian "peace track," and assessing the whole enterprise of engagement with Syria more generally...more

From The Long War Journal: Pakistani forces strike again in Arakzai by Bill Roggio, 11/21/2009
The Pakistani Army and Air Force hit the Taliban again in a region considered an extremist stronghold in the northwest...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

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