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My Year Inside Radical Islam

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive...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

Notes and Comments
A "CHINESE SOLUTION" IN IRAN? FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen writes: It looks like February 11th will be the most violent confrontation to date. The regime is taking unusual measures to put down the promised demonstrations. In many ways it resembles the "Chinese solution." First, an unprecedented mobilization: 120 trains and something like a thousand buses have been deployed from as far away as 250 kilometers from the capital. They will be used by the Revolutionary Guards and Basij to bring tens of thousands of paid "volunteers" to Tehran. These will consist of entire families (dependent on the regime) to counter the Green Wave. Each family gets $80 for the day, plus free food. The regime is aiming at 300,000 thugs in the streets. The Greens don't think the numbers will be that high, and in any event they expect ten times that number of protesters, upwards of three million increasingly angry people, demanding freedom and justice. ...more
Clifford D. May
02/9/2010



MEDIA

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In the Media

Eye to Eye on Iran
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here.
02/4/2010


Why Panetta Should Stop Talking
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Daily Beast
02/4/2010


Flirting With Disaster
Claudia Rosett, Forbes.com
02/4/2010


Press Releases

Senate Approves Gasoline Sanctions as Part of Broad Legislation Targeting Iranian Regime
01/28/2010

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POLICY RESEARCH

Aid To Yemen: Throwing Good Money After Bad?
Jonathan Schanzer
02/3/2010


Iran Energy Monitor: 1/25/2010
01/26/2010

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


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Dr. J. Peter Pham, nonresident Senior Fellow in Africa Policy Studies, is Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Project at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York City. He also holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science, and African Studies at James Madison University ...more

EVENTS
Reuel Marc Gerecht to speak at the Foreign Policy Initiative
February 11, 2010 —

Iran: Prospects for Regime ChangeIran: Prospects for Regime Change

The ongoing turmoil in Iran almost nine months after 2009's fraudulent presidential election raises questions about the continued viability of the Iranian regime...more

Dr. Michael Ledeen to speak at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar
February 16, 2010 —

Topic: “US National Security: Threats and Challenges: The US and the Middle East Today...more

Reuel Marc Gerecht to speak at Stanford University about the Muslim World and Democracy
February 22, 2010 —
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FROM THE BLOGS
From Faster, Please!: What is Iran Planning for Thursday? , 02/8/2010
Khamenei, whose public statements should be taken seriously, is promising some sort of devastating "punch" against the West on Thursday the 11th, the same day as the Green Movement is calling for a monster protest against his regime...more

From The Long War Journal: Shabaab calls for jihad against Kenya by Bill Roggio, 02/8/2010
A senior leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia has declared jihad against neighboring Kenya for supporting the weak Somali Transitional Federal Government...more

From The Long War Journal: Iranian-backed Shia terror group kidnaps US civilian in Baghdad by Bill Roggio, 02/6/2010
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