Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right
In the last few years, and especially since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating from individuals and groups...
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East Africa’s Terrorist Triple Helix: The Dusit Hotel Attack and the Historical Evolution of the Jihadi Threat
...Issa Osman Issa took up a position near Moi International Airport, Mombasa,19 and fired two SA-7 Strela man-portable surface-to-air missiles at an Israeli charter flight with 246 passengers...
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Terrorist Attacks Against Jewish Targets in the West (2012-2019): The Atlantic Divide Between European and American Attackers
...Israeli hotel at almost the same time as two Russian SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles were fired at an Israeli civilian airliner taking off from the city’s airport.14 The third...
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Hizb Allah’s Counterintelligence War
...retaliation. Thus, he reminded Israel that the new power equation would be “Tel Aviv for Beirut, and Ben Gurion International Airport for Beirut International Airport.”[2] Nasrallah emphasized this...
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The Jihadi Threat to Scotland: Caledonian Exceptionalism and its Limits
...security practices at airports,” Holyrood, August 21, 2015. [40] Alison Campsie and David Leask, “Muslims boycott airport,” Herald Scotland, July 30, 2011. [41] Stop and think: a critical...
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Paradigmatic Jihadi Movements
In 2005, veteran jihadi thinker, propagandist, and historian Abu Musa`b al-Suri released a study of the jihadi movement entitled The Call for Global Islamic Resistance. In order to...
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Edges of Radicalization: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent Extremism
The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point is pleased to announce the release of a new report entitled “Edges of Radicalization: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent...
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Self Inflicted Wounds
Self‐Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al‐Qa’ida and its Periphery examines the internal, or endogenous, reasons that have hastened the decline of the jihadi movement. In doing so,...
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