The Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is proud to present its newest publication, CTR Vantage.

CTR Vantage provides law enforcement, members of the intelligence community, academics, researchers, and other counterterrorism practitioners with enhanced knowledge of the terrorist threat to the West through the publication of in-depth themed issues. Each issue will concentrate on a topic of particular relevance; this initial publication, for example, focuses on the al-Shabaab recruitment in the West that is currently of great concern to American and other Western officials.

CTR studies terrorist movements and the ideologies that drive them, and seeks to identify how major trends in these areas will affect terrorism and counterterrorism efforts in the West. CTR Vantage is designed to further CTR's mission by using its research and analytical capabilities to illuminate multiple angles of contemporary problems related to terrorism in the West.

Current Issue

Issue 3 Preview: The White Separatist Movement in the United States

• Assessing the Militant White Separatist Movement

Archives

Issue 2: The Luqman Abdullah Shooting and Cause Célèbre Islam, November 20, 2009

• The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah
• Jamil al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown
• The Darul Islam Movement in the United States
• Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism
  

Issue 1: Al-Shabaab's Recruiting Efforts, November 4, 2009

• The Indictment of Abbow Munye Abdow and the Application of "False Statements" Charges
• Understanding al-Shabaab
• Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West
• Somali President Sheikh Sharif''s Diplomatic Efforts in the U.S.