by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Mar 4, 2013 | Monitor
"Railing against military incompetence and intelligence failures is no substitute for constructing a policy that recognizes the limitations of armed force and espionage. Though they lack the dramatic appeal of air raids and secret agents, diplomacy and law...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Aug 23, 2012 | Monitor
In April 2002, the FBI warned banks in northeastern states of a “physical attack”: "The United States government has received unsubstantiated information that unspecified terrorists are considering physical attacks against US financial institutions in the...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Apr 22, 2012 | Monitor
Part one of the 2d edition of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s autobiography – Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (Knights2) – is 560 pages in translation. Written during Zawahiri’s 60th year, the text is a broad, personal look at life inside (what I will call...