The Latest - Homegrown Terrorism
Reports Claim that Daphne-Raised Jihadist Omar Hammami Executed, but Somali Sources Skeptical
"All I have heard is the rumor; one of my Somali sources is very skeptical," he said. "I have not seen any announcement by Shabaab confirming or denying the report. I put out an inquiry to their spokesman, but no answer as of yet." more...
Wiping Them Out One by One
Inside Pakistan, before bin Laden, those killed by drones on Obama’s orders in the last two years include Baitullah Mehsud, overall leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan; Mustafa Abu Yazid, al-Qaida's leader in Afghanistan and top financial official... more...
Pentagon Terror Plot Foiled
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “It is very hard to stop a lone-wolf attack once it is in progress. more...
In America, a Home-Grown Jihad
“In Europe and elsewhere,” says Daveed Gartenstein Ross, “the Islamist movement is rooted in wider conflicts between Muslim immigrants and the societies they live in. In the U.S., those conditions do not exist in the same way—study after study, after all, has shown that Muslims are wealthier than average.” more...
Experts
Director, Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization
Military Affairs Fellow and Director, FDD’s National Security Fellows Program