A 90-page report by the New York Police department called “Radicalization in the West” breaks down the process that turns an otherwise ordinary Muslim youth into a violent jihadist. It’s nothing new or groundbreaking, but it brings together a series of eight or nine fairly detailed case studies that look at how well-known terror […]
Entries Tagged as 'Terrorism'
The stages of radicalization
September 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Terrorism · Al Qaeda · Political Islam
London bombings planned in Iraq
July 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’m in Amman on something of a fishing expedition for information connected to last Saturday’s London/Glasgow bungled terror attacks. There are still way more questions than answers and everyone is racing to try to piece together what happened, who was involved, how they were connected, etc.
The big unanswered question is where the center of gravity […]
Are London attacks first case of Iraq blowback?
July 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
It looks like the ring leaders of the London terror plot were a Jordanian and Iraqi doctor. The obvious question is now whether or not these guys track back to the insurgency in Iraq, to Zarqawi and to Tawhid w’al Jihad, or other such groups. If so this could be the first direct example of […]