by lundry | Jul 27, 2012 | Analysis, Islam, Media, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry In a blog post last month, I noted how the Taliban have been inflating their counts of American casualties to a ridiculous degree. This month it approaches comedy. As reported by Indonesian extremist site ar Rahmah, in the period May 24 to June 23, the...
by lundry | Jul 18, 2012 | Analysis, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication, Counterterrorism, Islam
by Chris Lundry The International Crisis Group has released another outstanding report on Indonesian extremism (available here) that reflects their in-depth approach, extensive connections, and long reaching background into the topic. This report focuses on extremist...
by lundry | Feb 13, 2012 | Analysis, Indonesia, Media, Narrative, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia, Terrorism 2.0
by Chris Lundry Indonesian Islamist extremist supporters ar Rahmah posted a story today (2-13) on their website and Facebook page about the hacker group Anonymous’ plans for a cyber-attack on Israel. The story (here) links to the Anonymous YouTube video announcing...
by lundry | Jan 18, 2012 | Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short...
by lundry | Nov 21, 2011 | Indonesia, Islam, Israel, Obama, Politics, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized
by Chris Lundry President Obama has now made his second trip in office to the land where he spent four years of his youth, Indonesia, while on a trip to Asia and Australia. Although Obama’s time in Indonesia was brief, he was welcomed relatively warmly by most...