by humbleauthor | Oct 12, 2011 | Monitor
Last night I guest lectured in Stephen Tankel’s class on Al Qaida and information operations. We were discussing AQ’s lack of television stations and one student noted that the convergence between television and the Internet will probably solve that...
by halverson | Oct 12, 2011 | Analysis, Complexity, Identification, Islam, Movements, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson I recently traveled to Tunisia where I visited the ancient holy city of Kairouan. Elections for the constituent assembly to produce a new Tunisian constitution are less than two weeks away and there is a lot of discussion taking place about the...
by Posted by AD Brown | Oct 7, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Ahmad Majidyar analyses Karzai’s decision to suspend talks with the Taliban. China Foreign Policy dissects some common assumptions about US-China policy. Cyberwarfare & Drones Wired suggests that terrorists and insurgent groups may be developing the...
by Posted by AD Brown | Oct 5, 2011 | Monitor
Following the killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen and the continuing use of military commissions to prosecute alleged terrorists, Jason Ralph analyses the evolving character of the War on Terror as it enters its second decade. The killing in Yemen … Continue...
by lundry | Oct 3, 2011 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Framing, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Southeast Asia, Suicide Bombing
by Chris Lundry On Sunday, September 25, a lone suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a Protestant Church in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, as services were letting out. Along with the bomber, one congregant was killed and several wounded from the shrapnel composed of...
