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The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new post from online jihadi discussion forums that describes a dispute over two French security consultants in Somalia who were kidnapped from a...
For those interested in exploring one of the greatest internal and transnational threats to the United States, there is a new book out today by Samuel Logan, This is For the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang.
The bo...
My latest book, The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad was published in paperback this month. It is the third in a post 9/11 trilogy beginning with Future Jihad: Terrorist...
Two related items that should give the Obama administration pause as it seeks ways to engage Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and other countries in Venezuela's sphere of influence (Bolivia, Nicaragua,...
To build on my CTB colleague Walid Phares recent post, there is another missing element in the analysis of the Taliban's recent advances in Pakistan.
It is the concept or religious precept of...
The day after Thanksgiving, Muslims begin the celebration of Eid al-Adha, or "Festival of Sacrifice," which commemorates the end of the Hajj season, and the willingness of the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son to demonstrate his devotion to Allah. ...
Yesterday, I posted about my first installment in a four-part series for Canada's National Post
related to homegrown terrorism. Today the Post ran the second part, which examines Western recruits to the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab. An...
In light of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Canada's National Post asked me to write a four-part series for them, running today until Friday, exploring different aspects of the "homegrown terrorist" threat. Today they ran the first installment,...
“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”
—Luqman Abdullah, imam of Masjid al-Haqq and Detroit representative of...
The NEFA Foundation has released exclusive raw video footage obtained by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco depicting the July 13, 2008 Wanat-Kamdesh battle in which 9 U.S. soldiers died. The video follows the progress of the battle from early...
