by Margaret M. Read | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
By: Margaret M. Read Throughout its existence beginning in the early 1990s, ASG has waffled back and forth between criminality and terrorism.
by raffaellopantucci | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
A new post for CNN, this one expanding on some brief comments in my earlier letter to the Financial Times. I see it has inspired a certain amount of vitriol on their comments. The overall point here is to highlight the fact that a bad situation is being allowed to...
by lundry | Aug 16, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Islam, Media, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Noordin M. Top, who was responsible for multiple bombings in Indonesia and who is thought to have played a role in the 2002 Bali Bombings, is back in the news. He was killed almost three years ago in Central Java by Densus...
by raffaellopantucci | Aug 11, 2012 | Monitor
A new op-ed for the Chinese paper 东方早报 (Oriental Morning Post) that I write an occasional column for. This one looks a bit at events in Syria and the growing jihadi presence and what it means. Doesn’t really focus on the Chinese lack of involvement there, but...
by G. Murphy Donovan | Jul 19, 2012 | Monitor
By: G. Murphy Donovan A provocative essay. What say you?