by raffaellopantucci | Dec 30, 2013 | Monitor
A quiet period during the holidays as I try to catch up some longer writing projects I have due. In the meantime, I have a new book review in my institutional home’s journal, the RUSI Journal, this one of Jeremy Shapiro’s interesting new book The...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 14, 2013 | Monitor
I have gone quiet for a while due to various travelling and other commitments. Written a few longer things which will eventually land, but for the time being here is my latest piece with Sayyid on al Shabaab’s internal difficulties for Jamestown. Foreign...
by Brendan Zehner | Oct 28, 2013 | Monitor
Tiananmen Square Attack Barbara Demick/LA Times A car crash in Tiananmen Square killed 5 people and injured 38 more. The car managed to come through one of the few openings in the barricades that surround the square. Al-Shabaab Rebuilds Forces in Somalia David...
by raffaellopantucci | Oct 5, 2013 | Monitor
My contribution about the Westgate attack for my home institution RUSI. Tries to put the incident within the bigger context of trends we are seeing within al Qaeda and terrorism internationally. I did quite a bit of media around the Nairobi attack, a lot of questions...
by raffaellopantucci | Sep 24, 2013 | Monitor
My latest piece for CTC Sentinel has finally landed in timely fashion, about Bilal el Berjawi a British-Lebanese man who ended up connected with al Qaeda and al Shabaab in Somalia. Quite apt in the wake of events in Nairobi, about which I have done a few media hits....