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Clairement, Il y a eu Défaillance
Pour Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, de la Foundation for Defense of Democracies, «l’une des clefs est de savoir s’il y a eu suffisamment d’échanges d’informations entre les services français, et même entre la France et les Etats-Unis». more...
White House: A ‘Few Months’ Until bin Laden Documents Released
"Also, in line with [Johnsen's] question: is this early leaking to Ignatius politically motivated, meant to 'shape' a narrative?" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counter-terrorism expert with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of "Bin Laden's Legacy" wrote on Twitter. more...
Freiheit Könnte Teuer Werden
Viele Beobachter bezweifeln, dass sich das Paar aus eigener Kraft befreien konnte. Die Taliban hätten die Geiseln gegen Bedingungen freigelassen, sagen von Nachrichtenagenturen zitierte Mitarbeiter des pakistanischen Geheimdiensts. more...
Al-Qaeda Members Gripe Over Cash Crunch as U.S. Targets Funding
“The financial dimension is critical,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, in a telephone interview. more...
Gone but Not Forgotten
Counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, in his book, Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on Terror, borrows the analogy of Muhammad Ali's "rope-a-dope" to describe al Qaeda's strategy for fighting the West. 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...
After Bin Laden, Same as Before?
Is the economic crisis a sign that, even after death, Bin Laden stings at us? Counterterrorism researcher Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the author of the provocative new book Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror, and he discusses it here with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez. more...
Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
This week in Washington, a conference at the National Defense University has gathered some of the world's leading experts on terrorism. A few nights ago, I joined some of them for a few beers and to be amazed by their collective brilliance. more...
9/11: 10 years After
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of 'Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing The War On Terror' says that al-Qaida has effected a second change in its strategy in the past few years. "The group has always been focused on the US economy as one of its key vulnerabilities more...
With Homeland Security Funding Dropping, Will Iowa Be More at Risk - or Better Off?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a bipartisan pro-democracy group created after Sept. 11, 2001, said the country could not sustain the cost of a similar attack today as easily as it did a decade ago. more...
Al-Qaeda Weakened Over Last Decade: Western Officials
The nation's increasing debt and flagging financial strength have jeopardized its long-term ability to sustain existing protective measures and employ force abroad, wrote Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Al-Qaeda has sought throughout its history to target the economies of its adversaries, he stated in a commentary in The Atlantic magazine. more...
Economic Costs of 9/11 After a Decade
Arguably the ultimate aim of al-Qaeda in savagely attacking the US on 9/11 was to inflict unbearably huge and permanent damage on the country’s economy. We can infer this from Osama bin Laden bragging in 2004 that al-Qaeda was “bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.” more...
It’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending
Nowhere has that profligacy been more evident than in the area of homeland security. “Things done in haste are not done particularly well,” says Jackson. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross writes in his new book, Bin Laden’s Legacy, the creation of a homeland security apparatus has been marked by waste, bureaucracy, and cost overruns. more...
Is al-Qaida Really Losing?
Al-Qaida's capabilities to carry out large-scale attacks have been severely diminished, and not just because of Bin Laden's killing. The organization's moral standing in the Muslim world has also suffered, as most terrorism victims have been Muslims. more...
The Long War’s Long Tail
What if someone came up with a terrific approach to surviving the war on terror and nobody listened? That is the dilemma at the heart of Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on Terror, the new book from counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. more...
Did Al Qaeda Die with bin Laden?
The reasons to why they were not crushed immediately are many, but for Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of upcoming book, Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror, there is one overarching reason. more...
The Attempted Terrorist Attack by the Face of Peaceful Islam, and the Problems it Presents for Media
The question of whether Abdo was actually affiliated with al Qaeda has obviously come up (see the noteworthy discussion by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, J.M. Berger, and Clint Watts on Twitter this morning). more...
Is Al-Qaeda On The Ropes?
I meant to respond to this earlier this week, but I think the notion that al-Qaeda is on the verge of defeat would best be taken with more than a grain of salt. more...
Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa
Jon Huntsman made an interesting comment the other day. He said the al Qaeda terrorism sweeping the world these last decades represents the collapse of old regimes much as collapse swept old Europe and the Ottoman Empire a hundred years ago. more...
US is Right to Give Aid to Somalia, Despite Risk of Helping Al Shabab
The answer to the crisis would seem to be aid from the outside, but control of southern Somalia by al Shabab, an Islamic militia designated as a terrorist group by the US State Department, poses a legal and political wrinkle. more...
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Director, Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization