by Posted by AD Brown | Sep 30, 2011 | Monitor
Yemen Danger Room’s roundup of coverage related to the reported death of terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen Jason Burke argues that al-Awlaki’s death is a significant victory, but not a death blow for Al-Qaeda. The American Enterprise Institute’s Critical...
by editor | Sep 26, 2011 | Diplomacy, Image, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman As Congress is once again behaving badly, I thought I would post a brief note about some interactions I have had while visiting Asia. Comments here show that what many of us regard as “inside baseball” matters a lot to foreign publics,...
by lundry | Sep 26, 2011 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Government, Image, Intelligence, Islam, Narrative, Religion, Southeast Asia, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Last year, my colleagues Steven Corman, Jeffrey Halverson and I wrote a series of blog posts exploring Islamist reactions to anti-Islam and anti-Muslim events in the US, including the debate over the Park51 Islamic Center and an American pastor’s...
by Posted by AD Brown | Sep 23, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Danger Room suggests that there has been a major breakthrough in dealing with the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices. Terry Glavin argues (via Harry’s Place) that attempts to make peace with the Taliban are counterproductive and morally bankrupt. My...
by Anand Gopal | Sep 17, 2011 | Monitor
After the recent Reuters interview with Siraj Haqqani, I shuffled through my archives to see if there is anything new in what he said. Below are a excerpts of a few interviews I did with him in 2010. You’ll see he covers similar ground. The Haqqanis are quite...